Often, a person struggling with substance abuse may also endure untreated mental health conditions and vice versa. This experience is known as dual diagnosis. Detecting and treating substance abuse or mental health disorder on an individual basis is a difficult… Read More ›
Tag: Addiction Treatment
Treating Addiction With Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Recovery isn’t just about detoxing from a particular substance and moving on without an active change in ideas and attitudes. Meaningful recovery stems from working through the root issues that accompany physical, mental, and spiritual anguish. That’s where eye-movement desensitization… Read More ›
Success in Recovery
Research shows that the highest addiction recovery success rates occur when individuals receive help abstaining from substances, as well as support cultivating healthy lifestyle changes in general. What many don’t realize, is that recovery from addiction to drugs and/or alcohol… Read More ›
Recovering from Heroin Addiction
Heroin is a drug made from morphine – and is typically consumed by injecting, sniffing, snorting or smoking it. When a person consumes morphine, it immediately binds to opioid receptors located in the brain. When this happens, a number of… Read More ›
Treatment Needs
When selecting a treatment center, there are many factors you want to consider. Long-term success in recovery has been shown by many studies to help people achieve their recovery goals, but there are still some important components to consider when… Read More ›
What Holistic Health Means and How It Works Alongside Traditional Methods
If you do some research on addiction recovery treatment options, you’ll likely come across two main categories: traditional treatment and holistic treatment. Traditional treatment options tend to fall along the lines of medication, psychotherapy (also known as “talk therapy”) and… Read More ›
How to Become More Comfortable in Therapy
Therapy is an incredibly important part of addiction recovery because it gives you a chance to face some of your internal battles, but it can be really nervewracking if you don’t feel all that comfortable sharing details of your life… Read More ›
3 Benefits Those in Recovery Can Gain from Art Therapy
Thomas Merton, a monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar once stated, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” For centuries, people have used art as a way of communicating thoughts, ideas, and… Read More ›
Your Ultimate Guide to Psychodrama (With Techniques You’ve Likely Never Heard of Before)
For decades, psychologists, researchers, and community leaders alike have worked diligently to identify unique modalities for treating addiction, mental health disorders, pain management and more. The psychological issues we face walking into addiction recovery isn’t an isolated event – for… Read More ›
Ways to Close the Revolving Door of Addiction Treatment
Unfortunately, relapse is common in recovery. The latest statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) show that rate of remission when dealing with drug addiction ranges between 40 and 60 percent. Due to this extensive problem, an ideology… Read More ›