Finding the best level of care is an important part of effective drug or alcohol treatment. Doing this often starts with an assessment from an addiction specialist. Remember to be honest about your history, substance use, and other work and life needs as you undergo this process. When it comes to your health, making short-term…
If you’ve heard about it but haven’t researched it, you may wonder what an EMDR therapy program is. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a mental health treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. EMDR therapy facilitates the processing of traumatic memories to bring them to an…
Mindfulness is one of the most important supporting practices possible for lasting success in substance use disorder recovery. Mindfulness entails consciously returning one’s awareness to the present moment when thoughts stray to past or future subject matter. This is helpful in addiction recovery because it helps reduce anxious future projections and depressive past rumination. If…
Many addictive substances can be challenging to quit, even when a person has decided they want to be free of them. Getting to the root of one’s reasons for substance abuse and finding a lasting avenue to sobriety are often best undertaken in a formal treatment program. Here you can benefit from an expert understanding…
Alcohol addiction is one of the most insidious forms of substance abuse because of its tendency to go undetected. The fact that alcohol is legal for adults to buy makes its use widespread and often habituated. Sadly, many people develop a substance use disorder without even realizing it. The health risks are enormous, ranging from…
In understanding the difference between opiates vs. opioids, a useful distinction lies in exclusion categories: all opiates are opioids, but not all opioids are opiates. That being said, the two classes of drugs function in essentially the same way and both can be very dangerous when used outside of their intended scope. If you or…
