What Happens If You Get Caught With Drugs in Inpatient Treatment?
The environment of an inpatient program is to support their emotional, physical, and mental needs wholeheartedly.
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What Are Alternative Sober Activities?
As newcomers to recovery, we think that life won’t be as fun and we’ll miss out on so much fun without using drugs and alcohol.
What Causes People to Abuse Drugs?
Today the United States and most of the world face unprecedented numbers of people abusing drugs. Although drug abuse and addiction are relatively different, the underlying reason anyone takes a drug is to change their feelings. Unfortunately, in today’s instant gratification mindsets, partly due to the lightning speed of the internet and all that it delivers, more and more people are abusing drugs and getting addicted because people are less encouraged to engage in things that take time and patience.
What Causes People to Abuse Drugs?
There are countless types of drugs that people use to get high. The term ‘street drugs’ always references illegal drugs. Any drug that can be abused and cause addiction will most often end up as a street drug. The legal status can also come down to whether or not a doctor prescribes it. This includes …
Risk Factors For Benzo Overdose
There isn’t a pain, mental, emotional, or any other illness that isn’t prescribed a medication to help “fix” it. Medications are given with a set of directions from the doctor for how much and how long to take them. After the prescribed dosage is up, the user should stop taking the drug for that initial …
What Are The Statistics About Recovery?
It’s easy to find the negative stats about relapse and overdose after alcohol rehab or drug rehab. However, positive recovery statistics are readily available, too—and they’re inspiring. Instead of focusing only on the challenges ahead, staying hopeful about the future is the wisest way to approach addiction recovery. Am I Cured Because I Went To …
What’s the Easiest Way to Stay Sober?
While we were using there was nothing else that could keep us from getting our next fix. All our time and money was spent on our addiction. We had no time for family, friends not even ourselves. Our lives had no direction, no future; the life we once wished for ourselves was lost with that …
Can Alcohol Be Injected?
In today’s society, we live in, we want everything bigger, faster, and better. The majority of us have to have the biggest and best of everything. We get the latest phone that has all the bells and whistles; we have to have the new one that comes out next year. We are never satisfied with …
Cocaine Overdose: What to Do?
The definition of cocaine, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH), states that: COCAINE IS A POWERFULLY ADDICTIVE STIMULANT DRUG MADE FROM THE LEAVES OF THE COCA PLANT NATIVE TO SOUTH AMERICA. ALTHOUGH HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS CAN USE IT FOR VALID MEDICAL PURPOSES, SUCH AS LOCAL ANESTHESIA FOR SOME SURGERIES, RECREATIONAL COCAINE USE IS ILLEGAL. …
Can Counseling Replace Treatment?
When people give up their drug or alcohol addictions, they will struggle for a long time to cope and are constantly learning about themselves, good and bad. An experienced addiction counselor must help newly recovering people gently and slowly unveil the dark and lighter sides of a clean and sober existence. Healing from addiction is …