• How You Can Get Back to Your Social Life Without Compromising Your Recovery

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    Staying strong after alcohol recovery is no easy task. Family parties, work events, weddings and casual gatherings are all bound to have drinks available. You’d [...]

  • Panic Attack vs Anxiety Attack: What’s the Difference?

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    Panic attacks vs anxiety attacks Although panic attacks and anxiety attacks are often conflated, they are two distinct conditions with distinct symptoms. In general, panic [...]

  • What Causes Alcohol Addiction?

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    Alcohol addiction, or alcohol use disorder, is characterized as a chronic condition marked by an individual’s inability to stop drinking alcohol despite the potential or [...]

  • What could be triggering my anxiety attacks?

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    Everyone feels anxious at some point. A little anxiety can even be helpful, like when nervousness about a test spurs you to study. However, not [...]

  • Is Alcohol Addiction a Choice?

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    Alcohol addiction is a nuanced disorder that affects both the brain and body. The National Institutes of Health defines alcohol addiction as an alcohol use [...]

  • What to Expect During Psychiatric Therapy

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    What is psychiatric therapy? Psychiatric therapy, or psychiatry, is the field of medicine that diagnoses treats, and manages mental disorders. Psychiatry lies at the intersection [...]

  • 7 Tips to Avoid Drug Relapse After Recovery

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    The choice to confront your addiction is a big one because the recovery journey is made up of tons of little decisions in the right [...]

  • Breaking Down What a Partial Hospitalization Program is

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    An alternative to full-time inpatient care, partial hospitalization programs (PHP) are typically Monday through Friday for approximately six hours per day, for a set number [...]

  • How Does Drug Addiction Affect Relationships?

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    Drug addiction often impacts more than just the person struggling with the disease - in addition, their friends, family, coworkers and partners can also feel [...]

  • How Does Medication-Assisted Treatment Benefit Residential Treatment Patients?

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    Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is a substance addiction treatment modality that utilizes both medication and counseling. Most notably, MAT is a common and effective approach to [...]

  • Understanding the Causes of Drug Addiction

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    Just as there is no single motivating factor behind drug use, so too is there no one reason why drug usage habits can become addiction. [...]

  • What is Residential Mental Health Treatment?

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    The field of counseling and mental healthcare is full of different phrases and terminologies used to describe various conditions, treatments and the like. One such [...]