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How Can People Deal with Negative Friends and Family in Recovery?

Q&A, RecoveryBy Oceanfront Recovery

A difficult area of life for people who walk away from addiction can be interpersonal relationships. Often people find their discomfort around people drives them into substance use. When people are sober they need to learn how to deal with humans without crutches of substances. This can be difficult in the beginning and lead to…

Shedding Negativity in Recovery

Drug Abuse, RecoveryBy Oceanfront Recovery

It is almost impossible to efficiently get through recovery and maintain sobriety if you continue to allow negative people, influences, or environments to play a role in your life. This may sound harsh, but studies have actually indicated that those that remove negativity from their lives in the early stages of recovery see much faster,…