Why Should I Stay Sober?
If you’re having doubts and asking yourself: why should I stay sober?It is important to remember the journey you’ve traveled to achieve your hard-earned sobriety. Everyone has a different story with a unique set of consequences that are created by his/her addiction, but the pain felt during active addiction...
Substance Abuse and Co-occurring Disorders
A co-occurring disorder, often known as a dual diagnosis, arises when a person is struggling with drug addiction or alcoholism and an underlying mental health illness. Drug addicted individuals often suffer from co-occurring disorders because their mental health condition is usually present before the substance abuse starts. Drug addiction...
Effective Coping Skills for Staying Sober
Coping mechanisms are a part of relapse prevention and are often gained during the treatment process. As an addict/alcoholic enters recovery, they are provided with the insight and knowledge of developing a relapse prevention plan. In early recovery, cravings are common and the first line of defense includes using...
FINDING HELP FOR A DRUG ADDICTION
Living a life consumed by drug addiction and alcoholism is not fun. Finding help for a drug addiction can seem like a shameful process or you might feel weak doing it, but isn’t it more important to save your life? My struggle with drug addiction almost caused me to...
Drug Addiction and The Family
Drug addiction is often called a ‘family disease’ by addiction specialists and medical professionals alike – and this is not simply because the disease, like many others, is largely hereditary. Addiction is referred to as a ‘family disease’ because all family members are gravely affected by the symptoms of...