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Choosing a Recovery Support System
After leaving treatment, recovery is not over. Staying free from addiction is a life-long process, but it is possible. Having a support system of friends, family and other recovering addicts is crucial...
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Help for Combat-Related Trauma
The recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have resulted in a large number of returning veterans who suffer from major depression and/or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Major depression and PTSD are...
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Naltrexone and Alcohol Addiction Recovery
The first few months of recovery from alcoholism can be quite difficult, but pharmacological aids like naltrexone can help. By competing for opioid receptors in the brain, naltrexone can aid recovery...
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Learning Parenting Skills during Addiction Recovery
The relationship between a parent and his or her children is often one of the many casualties of drug or alcohol abuse and addiction. Addiction causes people to become self-centered and irresponsible...
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Who Should I Talk to First about My Addiction?
If you are wondering about who to talk to about your addiction, you have already taken the first step of recognizing and admitting that you have a problem and need help. Seeking a healthy discussion...
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How to Control Your Environment to Avoid Relapse
Staying healthy after addiction recovery is like maintaining any chronic disease – keep it simple by maintaining a workable routine. Changing Memories Associated With Addiction Addiction is a disease...
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Lunesta Overdose Help
Lunesta is a prescription medication that treats insomnia and sleep problems. The drug acts as a sedative, attaching to chemical receptors in the brain to slow down activity. Individuals with insomnia...
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How Sharing Your Alcohol Addiction Story Can Help You and Others
Sharing your alcohol addiction story is a critical part of your own recovery and the recovery of those around you. It’s no accident that sharing stories is a central part to nearly every recovery...
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Staying Sober while Traveling
Whatever reason a recovering addict has for traveling, she is more inclined to relapse while she is on the road. While traveling, people are off their daily routines, freed from ordinary...
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Community Resources for Long-Term Addiction Recovery
The day-to-day grind of maintaining sobriety can be overwhelming, so many recovering addicts turn to their communities in their times of need. As a result, many communities incorporate specific...
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How to Transition from Relapse to Readmission
Drug addiction is described as a chronic relapsing disorder, which means that a person may have to take advantage of substance addiction treatment programs more than one time. Addiction recovery is a...
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Detecting Addiction Problems in the Elderly
Drug and alcohol addictions are very serious problems that are frequently disregarded in the elderly population. It is often falsely assumed that addictions only affect younger people. However, people...
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How Can I Get My Boyfriend to Stop Using Prescription Drugs?
Many people abuse prescription drugs—benzodiazepines like Xanax and Valium, narcotic painkillers like hydrocodone and oxycodone, sleep aids like Ambien and amphetamines like Ritalin and Adderall....
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What Does Intervention Aftercare Involve?
Increasing the Odds of Staging a Successful Addiction Intervention Professional interventionists help the friends and family of addicts conduct the most successful interventions possible by helping...
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What Types of Holistic Therapy Are Available in Rehab?
Holistic therapy is an integrative treatment modality used in rehabilitation to complement traditional approaches. There are several types of holistic therapies, and professionals often refer to them...
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Will Insurance Cover Multiple Rehab Visits?
According to the Addiction journal in 2006, professional rehabilitation essentially doubles the likelihood of a positive recovery outcome. Still addiction relapse rates provided by the National...
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How Do I Know My Insurance Policy Will Cover Rehab?
The Addiction journal published a study in 2006 that looked at long-term relapse rates for alcoholics. According to the findings, participants who underwent professional addiction treatment were...
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Can the Weather Affect Addiction?
Weather Can Affect Addiction The idiom “when it rains, it pours” could equally apply to addiction. Alcohol and drug abuse certainly multiply and intensify an addict’s problems, but the weather itself...
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Staying Sober while Traveling
Whatever reason a recovering addict has for traveling, she is more inclined to relapse while she is on the road. While traveling, people are off their daily routines, freed from ordinary...
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Community Resources for Long-Term Addiction Recovery
The day-to-day grind of maintaining sobriety can be overwhelming, so many recovering addicts turn to their communities in their times of need. As a result, many communities incorporate specific...
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