Category: Alcohol Rehab

The other day we posted about how relationships can hurt drug and alcohol addiction recovery. You get too involved in the relationship and stop focusing on what you need to do to get better and end up relapsing. Or you break up and you end [...]

There are as many triggers to relapse after drug rehab as there are people currently enrolled in drug and alcohol addiction treatment. It can be as simple as the mention of a certain drug or the description of using it or what it’s like under [...]

It’s a big debate among those in recovery: is medical use of prescribed medication a relapse if that medication is physically addictive? Because so many end up in drug rehab due to developing an addiction to their medical prescription for drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, codeine, [...]

September is Recovery Month every year and this year is no different. That means that the focus this month is on the benefits of drug and alcohol addiction treatment as well as the needs of those who are in recovery whether they are enrolled in [...]

When many people stop using drugs and alcohol, they find that they have a whole lot of extra time on their hands. All the time that they previously spent getting loaded, making money to get more drugs and alcohol, masterminding and perpetrating fraud, burglary and [...]

We’ve talked recently about those who get out of legal consequences for their actions by focusing on their alcohol and drug addiction issues. Here’s another case where a man is getting out of jail early pending trial in order to enter inpatient drug rehab. Because [...]

Part of any drug addiction treatment program as well as most people’s lives after they graduate from drug and alcohol rehab are 12-step meetings: Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and others. These meetings are open to anyone who identifies themselves as an addict (in some cases, [...]

At a time when modern medicine is pushing the limits of what we once thought possible, more and more drug rehab facilities are reaching back thousands of years for the latest treatment modality: holistic care. 3 Ways Holistic Care Helps Treat Addiction Yoga. The age-old [...]

OxyContin was introduced to the market several years ago with initially positive results. But soon, emergency rooms began filling up with OxyContin overdose cases involving those who were overwhelmed by the power of this prescription painkiller. For parents, addicts or those suffering from chronic pain [...]

One of the most serious issues pertaining to medical treatment in the United States concerns doctors who have developed a drug addiction, yet continue to provide care to their patients without receiving proper treatment themselves. For years, this problem went unchecked in the medical community, [...]