In the United States, 61 percent of men and 51 percent of women report exposure to at least one lifetime traumatic event. Studies have shown a direct correlation to traumatic experiences and the potential for adverse challenges like cancer and substance abuse. Learn more…
Have you ever considered if your anxiety is well-founded? Through challenging anxious thoughts, putting “thoughts on trial,” and examining most likely outcomes one can find that worries, stressors, and other anxiety symptoms can often be reduced to a fleeting thought through empirically supported methods of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Even thoughts that do have clout can easily be surmounted with other techniques implemented with the self. With this guide, one can discover derivatives of this therapeutic battery for self-use in everyday scenarios.
College is a vulnerable time for those in recovery. The culture is engulfed with “experimentation” and “partying”, it can be hard to lose sight of what is important – your education. Here are ways in which we teach our collegiate students to overcome these obstacles and keep their sobriety safe during their schooling.
What is the opposite of addiction? It’s not sobriety. Granted, healthy recovery includes sobriety, but the analogy is not so streamlined. Examine the value of community, companionship, goals, and overall connectedness to such as protective factors for sustained abstinence in recovery.
Sometimes your current job could be what is holding you back in your recovery. Learn how case management in treatment can set you up for success by aligning your goals and giving you a deeper sense of purpose!
Treatment plans are a fundamental aspect of treatment; but what exactly are they, what’s their purpose, and how do we establish them? Learn more about individualized treatment plans here!
Nurturing parenting is a curriculum created to assist with creating an environment for both children and parents that is conducive to safety, structure, communication, and security for all involved.
Deciding to receive help is half the battle. Here are some helpful tips to make the most out of your treatment journey. These tips can be applied to any type of treatment – Inpatient, Residential, PHP, IOP, and outpatient. You got this!!!
When people drink too much alcohol at one time, it can lead to an alcohol overdose or alcohol poisoning. According to Mayo Clinic, “Alcohol poisoning is a serious — and sometimes deadly — consequences of drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short period of time. Drinking too much too quickly can affect your breathing, heart rate, body temperature and gag reflex and potentially lead to coma and death.”
You may not be surprised to learn that we are in the midst of an opioid epidemic. You might be surprised to learn what 88,000 people die per year from alcohol related deaths compared to 77,000 from opioids. So why do we tend to focus on one and not the other? The answer lies in the way our culture views each drug.