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High-Functioning Addicts – Are You One?
Are you able to get through the day, make your boss happy at work, and meet your obligations at home even though you’re using drugs and alcohol regularly? You may have money in the bank and feel as though you’re doing okay as a parent. Or maybe you hope you’re pulling...
Intervention: When Families Suffer from Opioid Addiction
Opioid Addiction and Its Impact Opioid addiction is a terrifying disease that can tear apart families and cause psychological and emotional damage to everyone involved. When one family member suffers from opioid addiction, its impact on children, significant others,...
Trauma: What Happened Isn’t Your Fault, But It’s Up to You to Get Help and Healing
If you’ve faced incredible trauma in your life, it’s changed you. It has changed the course of your life, impacted your self-esteem, and maybe put you in a place of despair. Trauma can lead to mental illness, substance use, or both. But even when you’re feeling your...
PTSD and Addiction: How Can You Treat Both?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder are very commonly linked conditions. If you’ve suffered a traumatic event, you may replay those moments in your mind over and over again. To quiet them, you may turn to alcohol or drugs. Understanding...
Massage Therapy and Other Holistic Ways to Support Your Recovery
Addiction treatment is a complex process. Most of the time, people with substance use disorder need a variety of levels of help. Treatment must deal with the emotional, behavioral, and often mental health aspects of addiction. Through all of this, your body is also...
What is Recovery Mentoring? Could It Help You Avoid Relapse?
Relapse rates for substance abuse are high. Between 40 to 60 percent of people will relapse, according to The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s JAMA report. While that’s about the same relapse rate as that of other chronic health conditions, it’s still concerning for...
Kids, Addiction, and the Value of Family Therapy
Addiction is a family matter. When a parent has an active addiction to drugs or alcohol, it impacts every member of the family. Children are very observant. They know when their parents are fighting or not speaking to each other. They can pick up on the anxiety in a...
Saying “No” Can Make a Big Difference: Setting Boundaries with Your Addicted Loved One
Setting Healthy Boundaries You have heard it before, but that does not make it any easier to put into practice. Setting healthy boundaries between you and your loved one can be among the biggest challenges of dealing with addiction. This article will outline three...
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Addiction: Does It Work?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a long-used method for helping people with addiction identify self-defeating and negative thoughts that could encourage them to use drugs or alcohol. By recognizing these behaviors and thought patterns, individuals can learn how...
Interventions in Substance Abuse – Why Are Interventions Sometimes Necessary?
Your loved one struggles every day with his or her addiction. They feel the weight of the world on their shoulders and may have told you they don’t know how they can keep going. Why don’t they just get help, then? When Your Loved One Will Not Get Treatment There are...