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Dads in Addiction Recovery: 5 Ways to Set a Positive Example for Your Kids
If you're a parent, you know how common parental guilt is. You love your kids so much that you constantly question whether you make the right decisions for them. Throw an addiction into the mix, and t…
5 Effective Strategies to Gain a Strong Support System in Recovery
Both early and late recovery can bring on intense loneliness. Knowing that making positive life changes is often required to make steady progress in recovery, the healing process can often feel isolat…
How Do Recovery Residences Foster Accountability?
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (OASH) states, "People's relationships and interactions with family, friends, co-workers, and community members can have a major impact on their h…
Unraveling the Connection Between Wintertime and Opioid Overdoses
Winter's coming bringing many changes along with it–plunging temperatures, precipitation, shorter days, less sun.
6 Sober Living Skills to Maintain a Safe Recovery
Just about every stage of recovery comes with its ups and downs. It is highly common for those in early recovery to relapse within the first year after completing treatment. Even the most motivated in…
Can I Drink if I'm in Recovery From Drug Abuse?
When it comes to alcohol and other drug use, people always assume that certain forms of substance use are considered "better" or "less harmful" than others. This assumption can lead people to ask ques…
Acute Post-surgical Pain Is a Gateway to Opioid Abuse in Women
"You're going through withdrawals," the registered nurse explained when Chelsea returned to the hospital for the fourth time with severe flu-like symptoms and dehydration.
Understanding the Dangers of Recreational Amphetamine Use
The use of alcohol and other drugs can have lasting effects on an individual's daily functioning and overall wellness, and these effects range in severity based on the frequency, intensity, and durati…
Prayers and Affirmations to Change Negative Thinking
So often, in recovery, we can get lost in cycles of negative thinking that spiral out of control. Our thinking can get so negative that we steal our power and defeat ourselves before we even get out o…
The Value of Attending Outpatient Therapy in Recovery From a Traumatic Brain Injury
Living with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can bring on intense feelings of frustration as navigating life may be significantly more challenging than it was before the accident. Individuals must navig…
How the 10 Commandments Apply to Drug and Alcohol Recovery
The 10 Commandments are some of the oldest recorded examples of written law in human history given to Moses by God after Moses led the people out of the land of Egypt. The Israelites had lived in a pa…
What Can Biofeedback Therapy Do for Addiction Recovery?
Many people know that therapy is an essential element of the addiction recovery process. Rarely do individuals engage in just one type of therapy during rehabilitation; rather, individuals often parti…
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