How Your Environment Impacts Recovery
Learning how your environment impacts recovery is an important lesson to learn. In 2010, I made the terrible decision to …
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Do the Foods You Eat in Early Recovery Matter?
You may hear folks in recovery with a bit of time under their belt tell you not to worry about …
Continue readingCognitive Distortions: Don’t Let Negative Thought Patterns Hold You Hostage
Have you ever been in a situation where a friend says something to you that feels…loaded? Perhaps they were telling …
Continue readingYour Teen in Rehab: 5 Facts Every Parent Should Keep in Mind
Putting your teen in rehab may be one of the most difficult decisions you’ve had to make. Perhaps you didn’t …
Continue readingTreatment for Eating Disorders Doubled During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Treatment for eating disorders has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. But why? What’s happening to make the number of people …
Continue readingHolistic Addiction Treatment: What Is It and How Does It Work?
Recovery includes incorporating support structures, services, and activities that work for you—personally. As you overcome dependence on drugs or alcohol, …
Continue readingOfficials in New York Focus on Helping Children Victimized by Addiction
Wyatt walked into the room with his head low. He felt sad. And scared. But then he noticed the table …
Continue reading3 Barriers to Virtual Addiction Treatment
50 miles. That was the distance to the closest rehab treatment facility. And with the winding mountain roads, it would …
Continue readingLife in Recovery: Setting Relationship Boundaries
Setting relationship boundaries is an important lesson. We’ve all been there. We end up doing something that we don’t really …
Continue readingReaction to NYC Opening First-Ever Safe Injection Sites
2,062. That’s how many people died from overdoses in New York City in 2020, more than 33 percent more than …
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