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    Addiction to opioids, including heroin and prescription painkillers, is a widespread issue that affects millions of individuals and families. Among the various treatment approaches available, [...]

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    Why Women Benefit Greatly From Support Groups In Residential Treatment

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    Loneliness is a huge issue in today’s world. When the concepts of social distancing, online ordering, takeout, and delivery became highly normalized during the COVID-19 [...]

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    The Importance of a Relapse Prevention Plan: Gender-Specific Strategies for Success 

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    Relapse is a common challenge in addiction recovery. The risk of falling back into old habits is high without a well-thought-out strategy. Studies show that [...]

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    Emotional sobriety is a topic that, in recent years, has garnered particular attention in the context of mental health and personal development. While sobriety is [...]

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    After living your life in a certain way with certain routines — whether healthy or unhealthy — it is rarely easy to make quick changes [...]

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    Empowering Veterans: The Role of Medication-Assisted Treatment in Addiction Recovery

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    When veterans return to civilian life after military service, they often face a unique set of challenges. Among these difficulties are mental health issues and [...]

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    When it comes to sober living, it can feel like a pretty dramatic switch from the way you lived in the past to the way [...]

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    September marks National Recovery Month. This national observance promotes and supports new evidence-based treatment and recovery practices. During National Recovery Month, we also celebrate [...]

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    September marks National Recovery Month. This national observance promotes and supports new evidence-based treatment and recovery practices. During National Recovery Month, we also celebrate [...]

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    September marks National Recovery Month. This national observance promotes and supports new evidence-based treatment and recovery practices. During National Recovery Month, we also celebrate [...]

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    How Peer Support Helps People in Recovery

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    According to the National Institute for Health: More than 106,000 persons in the U.S. died from a drug-involved overdose in 2021 80,411 people died [...]

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    Why Your Nutrition is Key to Long-Term Recovery

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    “Food is thy medicine,” said Hippocrates, the ancient physician universally referred to as the father of medicine. If this statement was true thousands of [...]

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    How Long Does Recovery Take? Your Guide to Understanding the Drug Recovery Timeline

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    Whether you’ve been sober for one day or one year, it’s a common experience to wonder how long recovery takes, and what recovery timeline [...]

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    7 Practical Tips for Staying Sober During the Holidays

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    Your first few years of sobriety are the hardest.  It takes time to heal your body and mind, but it takes even more time [...]

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    How to Experience the Benefits of Kindness

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    It seems that regardless of the origins of your moral views, it’s pretty universally agreed that kindness is the right thing to do. Acts [...]

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    National Recovery Month (September) is a time for celebrating not only your personal progress, but the progress of everyone else in the recovery community, [...]