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How Introverts Can Benefit from Inpatient Drug or Alcohol Programs
Although they may make up half the general population (official estimates range from 26 to 50 percent), introverts often feel like a second-class minority. The American ideal is the gregarious, standout extrovert who can talk to anyone, who has a boundless supply of energy and the ability to manage multiple tasks. People whose brains aren’t…
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How Recovery Promotes Happiness, Productivity and the Freedom to Explore One’s Purpose and Passions
Most chemical addictions begin with attempts to “self-medicate” negative feelings—feelings that life is less than it was meant to be. With or without accompanying addictions, that problem is extremely common. A 2012 study by Adobe (which surveyed respondents in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France and Japan) revealed that while 65 to 80 percent of people…
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How to Advocate for Your Health Needs During the Rehab Admissions Process
The decision you’ve made to go to rehab for problems with drugs or alcohol no doubt took a great deal of thought, courage and determination. Now that you’re about to physically get admitted, however, you must come equally prepared, motivated and determined to be your own advocate for your health needs. While the rehab admissions…
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Rehab for Veterans: Things to Consider When Finding a Treatment Center
The popular image of a soldier (depending on whether you believe in the cause they’re fighting for) is either “fearless, tough, unyielding” or “brutal, insensitive, ruthless.” In either case, the picture is of someone almost superhuman, someone who never lets personal feelings interfere with following duty when it calls, someone hardly fazed by horrors that…
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Teen Addiction Treatment: How Addiction & Treatment Differs for Teens
The teenage years present an often-tumultuous period of growth and development. Learning how to effectively cope with raging hormones, conflicting emotions, rapid or delayed physical and emotional growth, peer pressure, problems at home and experimentation with alcohol and drugs can take a toll. When teens, who are already vulnerable to suggestion and peer pressure and…
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What Are the Unique Needs of Women When Treating a Substance Use Disorder?
Despite the decline in fixed ideas of “man’s job” and “women’s work,” despite increasing acceptance of gender-atypical and even gender-neutral individuals, most experts agree that, as a rule, there really are innate differences between men and women: Women are better at fine-motor-skills tasks, such as handling small objects without breakage. Men are better at gross-motor-skills…
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Questions You Can Expect to Be Asked in the Admissions Process
When it comes to addiction, pride makes you your own worst enemy. Pride leads people to numb emotional and physical pains with drugs rather than heed their bodies’ “You aren’t invincible” warnings. Pride keeps people from admitting that their “casual” drug use is turning into dependence or addiction. Pride convinces people who do realize they…
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How to Prepare Financially Before Entering Treatment
If problems with drug and alcohol abuse have begun to wreak havoc with your life and you’ve decided that treatment is your best option, it’s not as simple as walking through the door of a drug and alcohol rehab center and getting help. While in some cases the situation is dire and does indeed require…
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Eligibility and Admissions Criteria for Addiction Treatment
If you or a loved one are experiencing difficulties due to drug and alcohol abuse, you may be eligible for addiction treatment. In fact, millions of Americans are eligible for admission to drug and alcohol rehab – they just don’t know it. Consider, for example, that about 20 million people had a substance use disorder…
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How Treatment for a Drug or Alcohol Problem Can Benefit Your Future Career
Initially, it may seem like a stretch to consider how treatment for a drug or alcohol problem could actually benefit your future career. After all, deliberations about how 30-plus days in rehab could affect your professional future may include one or more of the following concerns: That the path to gainful employment after treatment may…
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Firefighter’s Substance Abuse Rehab Options: Understand Your Needs and How to Find Help
As a firefighter, you have an extraordinarily demanding, dangerous and stress-filled occupation. Not only do you put yourself in harm’s way every time you respond to an emergency call, you also experience accumulated mental and physical health assaults that can lead to a substance use disorder (SUD), co-occurring disorders and even post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)….
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How Family Involvement Improves Recovery from a Dual Diagnosis
Families considering treatment for a loved one with addiction can benefit from knowing that the gold standard for treating substance use disorders (SUDs) involving alcohol or drugs is dual diagnosis treatment. Dual diagnosis treatment refers to the treatment of substance abuse that co-occurs with another mental disorder, such as anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder…
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How to Budget for Life After Rehab and the Benefits of Financial Stability in Early Recovery
Looking forward to your life in recovery post-rehab may fill you with simultaneously conflicting emotions of hope and fear. Being new to sobriety means you will be vulnerable to life’s stresses, including triggers, cravings and urges, returning to a stress-filled job or a home environment that’s somewhat short in support for your recovery goals. Still,…
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Helping Your Loved One Through the Admit Process
You or your loved one has taken the all-important first step to recovery by making the initial call to a drug or alcohol treatment center. Maybe it was to begin the information-gathering process, or to speak with someone who empathizes and is knowledgeable about the disease of addiction and can provide support and encouragement through…
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