Recovery Blog
April Is Alcohol Awareness Month: What You Should Know
Alcohol Awareness Month was created to educate others about alcohol addiction. Alcohol is accessible over the world and plays a vital role in many social gatherings. However, risky behaviors...
What is the family’s role in a recovering person’s path to sobriety? How can they get involved in the rehab process?
Addiction doesn’t just affect the person who abuses, it affects everyone in their orbit – family, friends, and co-workers. Family members play a vital role in a person’s recovery, but they often...
Getting Help When Your Dad Is an Addict
According to data from the combined 2009 to 2014 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health, about 1 in 8 children aged 17 or younger lived in households with at least one parent who had a past year...
How can recovered substance abusers avoid a relapse during the pandemic?
The global Covid-19 pandemic changed all of our lives last year, especially those suffering from any kind of substance use disorder. Home confinement, lack of social gatherings, work isolation, and...
Emotion Coaching: It Works For Adults, Too
Your recovering spouse seems sullen when he comes home from work one night. "I'm getting a new job!" he exclaims. "I feel like my boss is afraid I'm going to screw up and end up back in addiction...
The Addiction Cycle and When to Seek Help
Addictions Aren’t Formed Over Night According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 19.7 million Americans (aged 12 and older: battled a substance abuse disorder in 2017. Since then, this...
Healing Through Hope
The Meaning of Hope Hope is a concept of great importance. Much like faith, hope is a principle of action, having two different but equally vital parts. Let’s first present the general definition of...
Personal Accountability and Long-Term Recovery
Recovering from substance addiction may be hard work but is one of the best things you can do for yourself. It gives you the freedom to gain control of your life, build stronger relationships with...
Understanding Relapse During Recovery
Recovery is a life-long process. You will face days that are simple and easy and other days that will test you. No matter how diligent and dedicated you are to your recovery, no one is completely...
How Your Family Can Help You Through Recovery
When a person suffers from substance addiction, they’re not alone in the pain that they’re experiencing. Their family and loved ones are also affected by what the addiction is doing to them. Family...
Does My Loved One Have a Drug Problem?
It’s hard to watch the people we love to become captive to an addiction. It’s especially hard because we know that the person is so much more than their addiction. They still have the potential to...
The Connection Between Depression and Drug Abuse
Studies have found a definite connection between mental illness and the abuse of addictive substances. A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that about 69 percent of all the...