After the announcement of the opioid epidemic being a National Health Emergency just last November, the Trump Administration’s Opioid Cabinet seems to have all but disappeared. The sole representative who is the face of this new proposed “takedown” of the opioid epidemic is Kellyanne Conway, and according to several previous drug policy control makers, she …
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Life Skills Training as a Core Part of Being Sober The biggest challenge that you will face in your recovery is learning how to adapt to the stresses of your day-to-day life once you complete inpatient drug treatment. When you were in active addiction, you were used to not caring about yourself, and your daily …
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Famed rapper Ben Haggerty, also known as Macklemore, has become well-known not only for his music but also for his sobriety. From the beginning of his career, he has been very open and honest about his road to recovery which is why his recent relapse in 2014 was shocking. 24 Hour Addiction Rehab Hotline – …
In July of 2016, Palm Beach County, Florida assembled a sober home task force consisting of treatment industry professionals, law enforcement officers and detectives and special agents, led by State Attorney David Aronberg. This task force was brought together in an effort to conduct investigations into potentially corrupt and fraudulent sober-home owners and their employees. …
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Many of us come into these rooms with a pretty gruesome past. For some, it could have been certain situations we found ourselves in physically, others can be struggling with emotional traumas, and others can be dealing with the fallout from incidents and accidents that occurred during their addiction. PTSD in sobriety is a very …
The Music and Drug Connection Ah music, the great relator, the universally spoken language. Music has been probably the most beautiful thing, in my own opinion, to come from all of humanity. However, over the last… say, five decades, the evolution of music has branched off into some pretty wild genres, and some major glorification …
PCP: Myths vs Facts I can remember when I was growing, there was a point in time, maybe it was the 90’s, that I first saw someone on the news who was high on PCP. They had been standing naked on their roof with a gun, yelling at the police down below. As a kid, …
Finding the Right Rehab for Seniors There is sometimes a misconception that drug addiction and alcoholism are illnesses that only affect certain groups of people. When people imagine a drug addict, they imagine someone in their twenties or thirties, and would never envision an older individual in the twilight of their life. The same thing …
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The Importance of Remaining Grateful Having gratitude in recovery can be a difficult task at times. When we start going through the trials and tribulations of life we tend to forget about the things we should be grateful for. In moments like this we have a tendency to focus on the negative, lamenting on all …
Famous Folks in Addiction Recovery 20 years ago, addiction carried an even greater stigma. Everyone tended to envision addicts as people who lived under bridges or in the back alleyways of a big city. This stigma made it a lot harder for those who were in active addiction to admit that there even was an …
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