When learning that someone is ready to sober up from drugs or alcohol, following cheers of delight the assumption is that this simply involves discontinuing substance use. A general lack of understanding about the science of addiction is at the center of this very common naiveté. In fact, addiction and chemical dependence dictate thought and […]
Solutions 4 Recovery Offers Addiction Therapy San Juan Capistrano Unwinding the compulsive behaviors that have resulted in a drug or alcohol addiction takes time and lots of patience. No one sets out to become an addict, that is for certain. The circumstances that may have contributed to addiction to taking root will vary dramatically from […]
Conducting Professional Intervention People who have a serious substance use disorder are very adept at encasing themselves in a cocoon of denial. As long as they can convince themselves that their abuse of drugs or alcohol doesn’t harm anyone they can continue their compulsive and destructive habit. In reality, of course, addiction impacts everyone within […]
Mental Health Substance Abuse Treatment Centers On their own, mental health disorders and substance use disorders can be difficult to treat. When these disorders occur together, referred to as a dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorders, treatment can become even more challenging. The difficulty is attempting to determine which of the two disorders emerged first, identifying […]
Naltrexone Uses in Addiction Treatment Yes, getting clean and sober is rough. Withdrawing from opiates or alcohol can be highly uncomfortable for those first few days of detoxifying the body, but, fortunately, withdrawal symptoms usually subside by the end of a week. Getting sober is hard, but detox and withdrawal isn’t the real challenge in […]
What Helps With Detoxing From Heroin? Though it may be a huge challenge to imagine that the highly unpleasant experience of going through a heroin detox will indeed end in a matter of days, rest assured that it will. Taking that very first step to launching a total restart to life as a clean and […]
Why is Heroin So Addictive? The resurgence of heroin over the past decade has taken the nation completely off guard. Once considered a passé drug of the 1970s, out of nowhere heroin returned to the drug scene, plowing through all social strata—from impoverished rural communities to affluence suburban enclaves. No state or county in the […]
Alcohol abuse can have some very disconcerting and unpredictable effects. One of these might manifest in angry outbursts, violent behavior, or rage, and another is the phenomenon called blackouts. Sometimes these two effects can happen simultaneously, resulting in a drunk rage blackout. Because alcoholism is a complex disease that impacts brain structures and chemistry, it […]
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