Addiction Blog
Dealing with drug detox or alcohol detox successfully takes patience, understanding, and planning. Otherwise, the person suffering from addiction is being set up to fail before recovery even begins.
Top 10 Holistic Techniques for Addiction Rehabilitation
Substance use disorder or addiction as its perhaps better known as a complex illness that affects all areas of an individual's life. The illness is characterized by an inability to stop abusing substances despite the detrimental consequences for the sufferer and the...
What Is the Difference between Alcohol Dependence and Addiction?
Due to the fact alcohol use is widespread and relatively accepted in our society, there remains some confusion between the terms alcohol dependence and alcoholism. In truth, they are not the same although naturally related. Alcohol dependence is actually the...
What Is Holistic Drug Rehab and Does It Work?
When considering drug and alcohol rehab, people have their own ideas about what works for them. As a result of our improved understanding of the illness of addiction, there are now numerous approaches available to achieving long-term sobriety including holistic drug...
The Holistic Alternative to 12 Step Addiction Recovery
When people are researching treatment options for loved ones with substance abuse issues, they commonly browse what’s available online. Addiction is a serious illness that affects millions of people around the world and consequently, the internet is flooded with...
The Dangers of Alcohol Abuse and How It Is Treated
Alcohol consumption is commonplace and for most people, it isn’t a particular issue. The occasional glass of wine at a family celebration or party is not only considered acceptable; in many ways, it is expected. For the majority of people, alcohol doesn’t pose a...
How Holistics Are Used to Treat Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a significant problem and has been for decades, if not centuries. These days, there are more people being treated for alcohol use disorder than for all other substances combined. This is possibly because of the more acceptable face of alcohol and the...
What Are The Options For Holistic Drug Rehabilitation?
Elevate Addiction Services believes that recovery from addiction should be a natural process that releases a person from dependence on medications. When addiction is treated with medication, although it addresses the physical effects of the illness, it can also serve...
Is There an Effective Non 12 Step Approach to Recovery?
The 12-step approach to addiction treatment is deeply embedded in our consciousness due to the fact that it’s been around for a long time. However, there are several misconceptions of 12-step; one being that religion is sufficient to help a person achieve sobriety. As...
What Are The Risk Factors For Alcohol Dependence?
Drinking a glass of wine or beer at the end of the day is a very common way for people to unwind and alcohol is also broadly associated with social settings and having a good time. For that reason, it can be difficult for people to determine when they've crossed the...
Addressing the Prescription Drug Crisis in America
There is a sinister epidemic currently pervading all areas of American society: prescription drug abuse. One of the most upsetting aspects of the opiate crisis is the fact that an increasing number of young people are being caught up in it. Irrespective of the age or...
The Holistic Approach to Rehabilitation of Heroin Addiction
Over the past few decades, holistic therapies have become much more widely accepted for their effectiveness in addiction treatment. A heroin treatment center can offer people with substance use disorder several different routes to rehabilitation and recovery that...
Is There Non 12 Step Rehab Available for Heroin Addiction?
Although the 12 step approach is the most recognized form of recovery support, it is not for everyone. Based on principles that encourage participants to submit themselves to a higher power, 12 step programs are often not the best program for those suffering from...
Drug and Alcohol Interventions: Do They Work?
A drug or alcohol intervention is when loved ones of someone with addiction issues take them to task on their substance abuse with the intention of them pursuing specialist treatment. While interventions help people with addiction into treatment successful all the...
The Importance of Aftercare for Substance Abuse Disorder
When someone has attended rehab and completed a personalized treatment program for substance abuse disorder, they are always recommended to pursue an aftercare program. Aftercare programs for substance abuse consist of follow-up treatment to reinforce everything that...
Getting the Right Outpatient Alcohol Treatment
Many people struggling with alcohol abuse disorder who have made the decision to change just don’t have the time to get help through a traditional residential program in a treatment center. This can be for many reasons: some may be caregivers with responsibilities or...
How Is Opiate Addiction Effectively Treated?
More than 2.5 million Americans are currently suffering from opiate use disorder which is contributing the more than 60,000 deaths from fatal overdoses each year. This is the crushing truth of the wave of prescription drug abuse that has reached crisis levels in...
Taking the Steps to Overcome Prescription Drug Abuse
In recent years, prescription drug abuse has become a problem of epidemic proportions that claims the lives of more than 60,000 Americans each year as a result of fatal overdoses. The kinds of prescription drugs that are contributing to this crisis are opiate-based...
Find Drug and Alcohol Treatment that Works
When a person is addicted to drugs or alcohol, it can be a scary time for them. They may ask themselves how they got addicted in the first place. They may have gotten into fights with friends and family over their use. And maybe they feel a bit overwhelmed. They...
Drug and Alcohol Rehab Doesn’t Have to be Dreary
When one thinks of drug and alcohol rehab, they often think of a dreary time filled with detox and therapy sessions. The reality is that it doesn't have to be that way. Therapy can take many forms in a non 12 step program, including such interesting therapies such...
Get Off Drugs Naturally with Holistic Rehab Centers
It's hard to imagine never taking another drug or sip of alcohol to the addict, but that's precisely what holistic therapy offers. Rather than just treat the symptom; that is, the addiction, holistic treatment centers work with the individual to help them establish...
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Drug and Alcohol Interventions: Do They Work?
Drug intervention programs are events arranged by the loved ones of an addict as a way of nudging them towards treatment. Many people in rehab for substance abuse are there as a direct consequence of an intervention and not a personal choice. However, although a drug...
Support Groups and 12-Step Programs
The 12 step approach to addiction recovery has been portrayed many times in popular media since it was first founded in 1935. As a consequence, it is probably the best-known system for addiction recovery support in the world. Support groups and 12 step recovery...
What to Expect in Early Recovery from Addiction
When someone has been through inpatient or outpatient alcohol treatment, they can often feel out of their depth when they return home after completing a treatment program. Some report a feeling of being lost or disconnected from the world around them which looks...
