by Keenen Diamond | Feb 3, 2023 | Addiction Treatment, Addiction Patterns, Q&A
The decision to go to treatment can easily be the best decision a person ever makes. Many men and women who have successfully recovered from addiction and alcoholism can remember a time when they were on the fence about whether or not they needed treatment. Many of us...
by Keenen Diamond | Feb 2, 2023 | Alcoholism, Addiction Treatment, Q&A
Alcoholism is a chronic, progressive, and fatal disease. Although there is no absolute “cure” for alcoholism, we are able to recover from the hopeless state of body and mind that has resulted from the disease. Rather than a cure, we have recovery programs...
by Keenen Diamond | May 4, 2021 | Addiction Treatment
Therapy often serves as a significant and critical component of any recovery process, whether you have a mental illness, addiction, or both. It can be challenging, though, to determine which facility is the best one for yourself or a loved one. You should consider...
by Keenen Diamond | Apr 12, 2021 | Relapse and Recovery, Addiction Treatment, Alcoholism, Recovery, Sobriety
White-knuckle sobriety refers to the practice of desperately holding onto sobriety without working a recovery program. Many programs stress the impossibility of maintaining sobriety by sheer force of will, but there are some—few and far between—who can for some time....
by Keenen Diamond | Apr 9, 2021 | Alcoholism, Addiction Treatment, Substance Abuse, Treatment
For many years, alcohol use disorder, or alcoholism, has been known as a threefold disease that affects the mind, body, and spirit. Within the disease, three parts are referred to as the spiritual malady, the physical allergy, and the mental obsession. These...
