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What Is the New Vaping Trend Juuling? How to Know if Your Child Is at Risk
For the first decade after electronic cigarettes were introduced to the international market in 2006, they were largely unregulated—even adolescents under 18 could legally purchase e-cigarettes throughout much of the United States. As with many new drugs, this form of smoking was (and is) billed as a safe alternative to a discredited counterpart: while traditional…
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What Are the Cost Benefits of Going to Rehab?
Drug addiction treatment reduces drug use and its associated health and social costs, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which has estimated that addiction costs the U.S. $600 billion annually. The same NIDA report concluded that this reduction in health and social costs far outweighs the cost of treatment itself. The cost…
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The Financial Toll of Addiction – How Much It Costs to Maintain a Drug or Alcohol Habit
The cost burden of a drug or alcohol addiction is often measured in societal terms. Thanks to statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, we know, for example, that tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug abuse carries an annual price tag of more than $740 billion in costs related to crime, lost work productivity, and…
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Is Addiction Genetic? How Genetic Predisposition Can Play a Role in Addiction
Although two-adult households where both partners have addictions are in the minority, just one parent’s being chemically dependent multiplies eightfold each child’s risk of developing a similar problem. Everyone has heard of families with “an alcoholic in every generation”—probably more exist than are actually heard of, since many problem users (and their families) become highly…
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How Private Rehab Facilities Are Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap in Florida
Roughly 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Only one in ten of these Americans will actually get the treatment they need, however, according to widely accepted findings. Consequently, every year some 19 million Americans go without help for a treatable disease, suffering unnecessarily when they could be finding freedom and recovery. In…
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From Call to Day One: How to Prepare Mentally and Physically for Rehab
Whether it’s for you or a loved one, getting help for an addiction often begins with a simple phone call to a drug or alcohol treatment provider. After that, depending on when the facility can admit you, there is a usually a brief period of time during which your (or a loved one’s) main job…
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Painkillers Explained: Understand What Medications Doctors are Prescribing for Your Pain and How They Affect You
When you’re dealing with chronic or acute pain as the result of an injury or illness, taking a doctor-prescribed pain medication may be unavoidable. This is where understanding what doctors are prescribing for your pain and how these medications affect you—their uses, effects and addictive qualities—can come in handy. Doctors will usually prescribe a medication…
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What is Process Addiction and its Ties to Substance Abuse?
At first glance, it might seem like an addiction to substances like alcohol, cocaine, heroin and prescription drugs has nothing in common with process addiction. However, there is increasing scientific evidence that process addictions share important similarities, as well as differences, with substance abuse and substance use addiction. DEFINITION OF PROCESS ADDICTION Use of the…
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What is Recovery Coaching and How to Find an Addiction Recovery Coach
If you or your loved one has begun treatment for drug or alcohol addiction, or a dual diagnosis of substance use disorder and mental health issue, or a process addiction, or a combination of addictions, you already know that the recovery journey is now a lifelong one. It isn’t a one-and-done stint at rehab and…
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Will Going to Drug Rehab Affect Your Chances of Joining the Military?
Drug addiction is a major albatross around the neck—as much for the stigma surrounding it as for the direct physical, relational and functional problems it causes. Everybody makes mistakes, but some mistakes seem less “redeemable” than others. Sometimes even after successful treatment, people with addiction disorders spend years trying to live down the label of…
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What Is a Halfway House and Should You Consider It for Your Recovery?
What’s next for you after treatment for drug and alcohol abuse? Whether you’re now about to complete residential or inpatient treatment to overcome your addiction or are going to transition from outpatient treatment, the prospects for your continuing sobriety may require additional structure and support. For some in recovery not yet ready to return home…
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Isolation is the Biggest Threat to Health and Wellness in Recovery: Learn How to Combat It with a Healthy Lifestyle
Social isolation and loneliness may be a bigger threat to public health and wellness than even obesity, according to a 2017 press release from the American Psychological Association (APA). As evidence in support of this claim, the report cited research that has revealed a strong link between loneliness and premature death and other health issues….
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How to Talk to Your Family about Participating in a Family Program
The best addiction-recovery journey is one that involves, not just the person struggling with the actual addiction, but his or her entire family. Whatever the specific details of the situation, the problem always belongs to the entire household because: Almost every addiction is affected by things the rest of the family is doing or not…
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Differences Between In-Network and Out-of-Network Coverage for Rehab
When you’re choosing a drug or alcohol treatment center for you or a loved one, one key consideration to keep in mind are differences between “in-network” and “out-of-network” coverage for rehab. Understanding those differences can help you make a more informed decision in selecting a rehab program that is right for you. Beach House Center…
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