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Should you take an antidepressant during early recovery - or while still drinking/using? Does your substance abuse cause your depression or is it the other way around? Read on for an overview of your options and for more information on when SSRIs will help, and when they won’t.
Programs that offer sauna treatments as a core component are likely Scientology-related. This treatment is not backed by any legitimate medical organization.
If you drink or smoke marijuana make sure it's a conscious and examined choice - one you've made after looking carefully at the pros and cons of your decisions. You’ve only got one life to live so make it a conscious one and make it count – and if alcohol and marijuana pull you down, have the resolve to make some changes.
If you can’t focus to complete essential tasks you’ll create unnecessary stress - and stress definitely ups your risk of relapse. Safeguard your recovery by learning focus skills that make it easier to stay on task.
Want Quality Treatment? Evidence-Based Therapies Increase Your Chances of Lasting Addiction Recovery
If you want to be sure you'll get value and benefit from an addiction treatment program, make sure they offer evidence based therapies - interventions that are actually proven to work!
Biofeedback Therapy is a relatively new form of alternative therapy that uses specialized instruments and technology to measure quantifiable reactions and responses of the body.
The intensity of a sweat lodge experience, rooted in Native American traditions, offers hopes of a spiritual rebirth, greater self-knowledge and peace.
We can sometimes learn more about ourselves through a few hours of working with horses than we can through months of psychotherapy - and we don't even need to ride horses to do it! Learn the benefits of equine assisted therapy for addiction treatment.
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy - what is it, and how can it help in addiction recovery?
Some people can do it on their own, most of us can't. Find out how checking into drug or alcohol rehab can help you get better. You can beat your addiction, but you may need a little help to do it.
A newer and far preferable alternative to methadone, Suboxone might be what you need to help you finally break free from pain pill addiction.
As addictions professionals recognize and promote the benefits of more holistic programs of recovery, the value of meditation in drug treatment is increasingly recognized and offered as adjunct therapeutic programming in comprehensive drug rehabs.
While the strengthening of appropriate and encouraging relationships is beneficial in any drug treatment program, participation in a romantic or sexual relationship can impair the ability to recover, and as such the vast majority of drug treatment facilities have no tolerance rules against romantic relationships between recovering drug and alcohol addicts.
Employee drug treatment programs better the productivity of any company, and as well provide a vital link to needed treatment programs for many underinsured Americans.