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What Does Dual Diagnosis Treatment Mean?
Substance use disorder is a growing problem in the US. It affects millions of lives each day. It weighs heavily on the lives of both those living with the disorder, as well as those who are close to them. One of the factors that contribute to the challenge of treating...
What Does Dual Diagnosis Treatment Mean?
Substance use disorder is a growing problem in the US. It affects millions of lives each day. It weighs heavily on the lives of both those living with the disorder, as well as those who are close to them. One of the factors that contribute to the challenge of treating...
Can You Become Tolerant to Benzodiazepines?
Drug addiction is a challenging condition to live with, and it can even happen to those that have never touched an illegal drug in their life. Addictions often begin when someone is prescribed a drug to treat something and then misuses that prescription. It happens...
Understanding What Relapse Triggers Are
What Does it Mean to Relapse from Addiction Recovery? A relapse in addiction recovery is when someone who has achieved short-term or long-term recovery starts abusing drugs and/or alcohol again. Relapsing could mean using the same substance, or different substances...
How to Support Someone’s Recovery Without Enabling
Drug addiction or substance use disorder, as well as alcohol use disorder, are incredibly common in the US. If you or someone you love has had trouble with substance or alcohol use and is now seeking to begin recovery with the help of addiction treatment, you may be...
Does Health Insurance Cover Drug Rehab?
Drug addiction is one of the most challenging problems an individual can face. It can drastically affect the physical & mental health, as well as the entire life of the individual who has become addicted. Not only that, but the lives of those close to the addicted...
Benefits of an Intensive Outpatient Program
Drug addiction, also known as substance use disorder, is a significant challenge. However, once an individual living with substance use disorder has come to terms with their addiction, as well as the fact that they need professional help, finding the right treatment...
Common Co-occurring Disorders with Addiction
What Do Co-occurring Disorders Mean? According to the DSM5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health 5th edition), Co-occurring disorders are two or more of the following: mental health disorders, and substance use disorders. According to SAMHSA’s 2018...
Top Ten Relapse Warnings Signs
What is a Relapse? In addiction recovery, a relapse is when the recovering addict uses again. It’s something that happens between 40-60% of the time in all forms of addiction recovery. A relapse does not mean failure, or that the program didn't work. It just means the...
The 3 Stages of a Relapse
Understanding Relapse Relapse from addiction recovery may seem like it’s the end of the recovery journey, when in fact, 40-60% of people in recovery will relapse at some point. Because alcohol and drug addiction are chronic diseases, relapse is always a risk. Stages...
How Do You Know if Someone is Struggling with Addiction
Addiction is devastating not only to those addicted but to those who surround and care for them. Millions seek professional addiction treatment each year. But millions more go without, simply because they may not be able to recognize the signs of addiction in...
The Five Stages of Addiction
Addiction is a devastating disease that changes the lives of everyone involved, not only the individual living with the addiction, but everyone who cares about them as well. While millions of people seek professional help for their addictions each year, millions more...
How Do I Know If I’m An Alcoholic
Alcoholism is much more common in the United States than many people may realize. With a culture that involves having a drink or two after work to unwind, to the binge drinking as a right of passage when someone turns 21, it’s not that surprising that so many...
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