How Involved Is Your Family In The Aftercare Process? Although aftercare is intended to increase the probability of an individual staying sober, there are tremendous healing...
In our addictions, so much of our life was spent with a negative peer-group. The people I surrounded myself with in my active addiction were...
The Neuroscience of Recovery Woah-woah-woah, what’s with the neuroscience terms in a recovery blog? Well, once you find out what neuroplasticity is (if you don’t know...
One of the hardest parts of detox and post-acute withdrawal symptom is the struggle to sleep. It took me weeks to finally achieve a full...
Are Vivitrol and Antabuse a Solution for Recovery? There are two commonly used medical supplements to addiction treatment, namely Vivitrol and Antabuse. What are these drugs?...
Changing the Stigma of Addiction “Addiction is a complex brain disease with significant behavioral characteristics. Nicotine, alcohol, illicit drugs, and controlled prescription drugs all affect the...
Myths about recovery part 3 It’s been a good run, but this is the third and final part of our “myths about recovery” series. In part...
Myths About Recovery Part 2 This is the continuation of the conversation we started last week, if you haven’t done so yet, please read Part 1...
I remember sitting in a living room somewhere, talking about rehab with someone; they said a few things that I thought were true at that...
The long-term recovery success rate has dropped throughout the years, from 75% in certain groups (Minneapolis 1946) all the way to a mere 5-30% in...