by Keenen Diamond | Dec 19, 2018 | Addiction News, Addiction Treatment, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Life in Recovery, Opioid Addiction, Q&A, Relapse and Recovery, Substance Abuse
For many, rehab is an experience like no other. They enter a treatment facility broken, battered shells of themselves, ravaged by the disease that is addiction, and with very little hope for a bright future. A few months later, they emerge afresh, with a new lease on...
by Keenen Diamond | Dec 18, 2018 | Addiction News, Addiction Treatment, Life in Recovery, Q&A, Relapse and Recovery
The best thing about addiction recovery is the feeling of accomplishment you enjoy after successfully completing your recovery session. Armed with a new lease on life, many graduates of an addiction recovery program charge out of rehabilitation with a fresh, can-do...
by Keenen Diamond | Dec 17, 2018 | Addiction News, Addiction Treatment, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Life in Recovery, Opioid Addiction, Q&A, Recovery, Relapse and Recovery, Substance Abuse
Individuals that have not entered addiction recovery before may have questions about what the process is like. There are always many ideas about what addiction recovery entails. Though every addiction recovery process is different, there are many similarities. Taking...
by Keenen Diamond | Dec 14, 2018 | Addiction News, Addiction Treatment, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Life in Recovery, Opioid Addiction, Q&A, Relapse and Recovery, Sobriety, Substance Abuse
Most addiction recovery plans and treatment options focus on one thing: preventing a victim of addiction from ever touching the substance they were addicted to again. Actually, if the plan works well enough, the ultimate goal is to dissuade the victim from having any...
by Keenen Diamond | Dec 7, 2018 | Addiction News, Addiction Treatment, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Life in Recovery, Relapse and Recovery, Substance Abuse, Treatment
Far too often, those suffering from an addiction to any one of a number of substances, attempt to downplay the severity of their dependency by ignoring addiction. Unfortunately, studies have shown that many of their would-be saviors do, too. Is it a coping mechanism?...