Understanding and Avoiding Relapse

Understanding and Avoiding Relapse Relapsing is one of the greatest threats to achieving long-term sobriety. Around 50% of people treated for a substance use disorder will relapse. Therefore, [...]

How to Stay Focused on Your Recovery

Maintaining sobriety is a life-long journey. Trying to stay focused on your recovery journey can be difficult, especially while balancing all of life’s stressors and responsibilities. [...]

What Are Some Long-Term Goals For Sobriety?

Addiction is a disease that requires a life-long commitment to maintaining one’s sobriety. While attending an addiction treatment center is a great first step toward long-term sobriety, seeking [...]

Tips For Staying Sober During the Holidays

The holidays can be the perfect time to gather together with loved ones and enjoy this special time of year. Although the holidays can be a great time to connect with family and friends, they can [...]

How Meditation Can Help in Addiction Recovery

Meditation has been a prominent practice that has helped millions of people across history improve their minds and body. Meditation teaches an individual how to focus on the present moment while [...]

Are There Hobbies to Help With Addiction?

Deciding to seek help to heal and overcome drug or alcohol addiction is a vital first step toward physical and psychological wellness. Unfortunately, many who complete an addiction treatment [...]

Can You Become Addicted to Anxiety Medication?

Anxiety is an emotion everyone experiences from time to time. It is the brain’s way of reacting to a stressful situation or event. It is also how the brain lets you know there may be a potential [...]

Can Alcohol Make Depression Worse?

The symptoms people experience when they are depressed can lead to various other complications, including poor coping mechanisms. Often, people turn to drugs or alcohol to help reduce the [...]

How to Know When Your Drinking Becomes a Problem

Alcoholism (now typically referred to as an alcohol use disorder) is often the subject of much stigma leading to an overwhelming lack of essential, potentially life-saving addiction treatment.  [...]

Rehab Centers That Accept United Healthcare in Malibu

In 2010, the passing of the Affordable Care Act significantly changed the landscape of addiction and mental health treatment. Before the Affordable Care Act (also called Obamacare), insurance [...]

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