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Important Things to Leave Behind in Recovery
When you enter recovery, it should be a joyous time in your life. After all, you’ve come through drug or alcohol rehab more or less unscathed, at least from the standpoint that you’re now clean and sober and have some idea of the path you’ll be taking from here on out in recovery.
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When Addiction Doesn’t Cause Any Problems, It’s Still an Addiction: High Functioning Addicts
If someone were told to close his eyes and visualize what a stereotypical alcoholic or drug user looks like, odds are that he won’t imagine his highly-respectable neighbor, his loving mother, or his doctor. But, researchers and physicians caution that even those individuals that seem to be living the ideal life may have a hidden problem. Although hidden, their addiction can be very dangerous to them.
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Now That You’re Sober…
If you’re sitting here contemplating your life, now that you’re sober, you likely have a whirlwind of thoughts giving you pause. On the one hand, you’ve overcome a significant hurdle just getting clean and sober. This may have been the most difficult and painful undertaking you have ever encountered, but you came through on the other side, more or less intact.
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Do You Really Need a Sponsor in Recovery?
If you’ve successfully completed rehab and are now in recovery, the first thing you should do is congratulate yourself on a significant achievement. You are now clean and sober and that’s the key driver toward maintaining your sobriety going forward.
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Keep Going in Recovery
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." – Confucius, ancient Chinese thinker, educator and social philosopher, founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought (551 BC-479 BC)
Facing challenges can be difficult, if not totally discouraging, especially in early recovery. This is a time when we’re still raw and vulnerable, unsure of ourselves, fearful, distrusting, and uncertain of our abilities. In fact, many of us fear that we don’t have what it takes at all. We’re often too eager to give it all up, despite how far we’ve already come.
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Willpower is Like Physical Exercise: Too Much and You Use Up Your Reserves
Exerting willpower uses up mental energy powered by glucose in the bloodstream. In that sense, it is like a physical activity that causes you to deplete your reserves. In order to succeed at your goal of giving up alcohol, drugs, unhealthy foods, or cigarettes, you need to minimize temptation so that you are judicious in the way use up your willpower, according to a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Long-Term Use of Ecstasy Linked to Brain Damage
The more you use ecstasy, the more you might damage your brain, according to a new study from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The researchers were quick to point out that their study does not prove the party drug causes brain damage, but it does suggest that damage occurs and that it may be permanent.
Drug Addiction and Stress Go Hand in Hand
It is hard enough to be fighting a drug addiction, but when you are addicted to drugs you also have an increased risk of dealing with a stress disorder.
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10 Signs that Your Loved One Needs Addiction Treatment
There are several different types of addictions, including drug addiction, alcoholism, and gambling addiction to name a few. Each type requires specialized addiction treatment in order to help addicts overcome their addictive behavior and lead a more constructive and enjoyable life. While the symptoms may vary to some degree from one individual to the next, and from one addiction to the next, the signs of an addiction are generally quite similar.
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5 Common Obstacles to Successful Alcohol Rehabilitation
Just ask anyone who’s gone through alcohol rehabilitation what is was like. You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who will tell you that it was easy. Those who stick with it and stay sober will most likely tell you that going to rehab was one of the best decisions they ever made.
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New Study Debunks Previous Theory as to Why We Drink
A recent study revealed that a common theory as to what behaviors influence alcohol consumption may not be accurate. It has been understood that both explicit and implicit behaviors determine the way alcohol is consumed. But a team of scientific investigators took 200 undergraduates and performed a series of simulations that contradicted the previous theory, Details of the results were highlighted in a recent online medical article.
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An Interview with Betsy Spier, Executive Director at Promises West L.A.
Working at Promises is like “coming home” for Betsy Spier. She first stepped foot on Promises’ driveway in 1993 as a marriage and family therapy intern, where she met founder Richard Rogg and instantly had an “amazing feeling about the place.”
Binge Drinking Problem Increasing
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) states that American binge drinking is a problem that continues to intensify, especially among our affluent households. A recent report on CNBC, notes that nearly 17 percent of our U.S. population partakes in binge drinking four times in a month.
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Researchers Claim New Psychological Test Can Help Cocaine Addicts in Drug Rehab
Researchers at NUI Maynooth and Columbia University claim a questionnaire they have invented will identify cocaine users who will have success in drug rehab, according to a recent blog post. The test was invented by Professor Dermot Barnes-Holmes at NUI and has been successfully used in New York during drug rehab trials of 25 men, as well as three women. All had been cocaine users for nearly 15 years and Barnes-Holmes says his system has huge implications for drug addiction treatment.
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Why Is Alcohol Detox Necessary?
People develop problem drinking habits for a number of reasons. Some people drink heavily and others drink less, but for many, alcohol has become a daily occurrence.
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At Promises Treatment Centers we specialize in treating a wide variety of addictions such as alcohol, cocaine, prescription drug addiction, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methamphetamines. We also specialize in treating co-occurring disorders such as PTSD, grief or loss issues, depression and anxiety, sexual compulsivity, and sleep disorders.
Promises rehab centers use evidence-based treatment modalities, including medically monitored detox, psycho-educational groups, stress management strategies, cognitive behavioral techniques, equine-assisted therapy, DBT, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and somatic therapy.
We continually ask for feedback from our clients, measuring the effectiveness of our approach and continually setting higher standards so that Promises Treatment Centers will always lead the way in offering the most comprehensive addiction treatment program in the country.
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