As you screen rehabs for your best fit, maybe you wonder, “How long does addiction recovery take?” This common question answers differently for each person. Much depends on how you approach treatment, whether you engage in your rehab program, and which treatment program you enter. After all, your individual recovery focuses on what helps you…
New Year’s Eve has become a celebration that involves alcohol. It’s no longer about watching the ball drop or spending time with loved ones. For many, having a drink or champagne flute in hand at the stroke of midnight is a must. In contrast, there’s First Night 2018. How First Night 2018 Can Become Your…
The approaching end of the year marks the deadliest time on American roads. National Impaired Driving Prevention Month 2018 takes place in December. Since 1981, officials have warned motorists about the dangers of drinking and driving. Have you been listening? Nobody Plans to Drink and Drive You typically don’t leave the house in the morning…
I’ll never forget my first year of recovery. After the initial relief of waking up without a hangover wore off, I was left with me: a 32-year-old woman with not much sense of who she was, or how she ended up drowning her existence for the last 20 years. I’d never felt so lost. Early…
When I came out of my last alcoholic binge — having guzzled 14 bottles of wine in four days and spent two days shaking and vomiting on the bathroom floor — I knew that this time I had to get help. The only pathway I was aware of back then was Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Six…
Most people know that addiction to drugs and alcohol affects the body, causing brain changes and other health problems over time. However, did you realize that substance abuse disorders also cause marked modifications in the way a person thinks, behaves, feels and copes with the stresses of daily life? That is why participating in a…