Re-Entering the Working World after Rehab
When you complete rehab treatment there are multiple challenges you will have to face as you return to everyday life. One issue that many people find difficult is going back to the stressful environment of work or even finding a new career after years of addiction and unemployment. Working after rehab can be intimidating but […]
Dealing With Fear in Recovery
Change can often be a scary thing. Recovery from addiction is a radical change from the life you knew, and so brings many fears along with it. With sobriety, life will continue to have the same ups and downs, but you will no longer have the ability to escape. Even if you realize that substance […]
The Dangers of Mixing Alcohol with Other Drugs
Many addicts and substance abusers do not simply grow attached to one drug to the exclusion of all others, but they combine multiple substances in what is called polydrug use. Sometimes people want to increase the effects of a drug already taken, or they may be in a more experimental mood as drug use inhibits […]
5 Tips for Dealing with Addiction Triggers
When you have been addicted to something for years, your life begins to revolve around that substance and the act of consuming it. As you become sober you will have to learn to deal with triggers all around you and constant reminders of your former addiction. Triggers can come in the form of people, places, […]
Dealing with the Alcoholic in Your Family
The person most affected by addiction is the addict himself or herself, but alcohol addiction also harms the loved ones around him or her. If you have an alcohol addict in your family, you have probably witnessed many painful moments of unpredictable behavior, dishonesty, and pain as both drunkenness and the craving for it takes […]
How Friends and Accountability Helps Your Recovery
Addiction thrives on isolation and deception. Denial gets in the way of making you see that you have a problem, or think that things “aren’t so bad” or your addicted life is easy to manage. A lifestyle of active addiction is characterized by working to make sure that other people don’t know how much your […]