Category: addiction recovery

Setting Boundaries with Friends in Recovery

According to research from 2018, 26% of people globally experience stress at least once a week. Just like a substance use disorder, stress is a health condition. Boundaries help everyone set a pace for self-care.  Setting boundaries in recovery is one of the most essential actions a person with a substance use disorder can take. […]

Making Amends: How to Rebuild Relationships after Battling Addiction

If you’ve struggled with addiction, you’re not alone. Millions of people are fighting that battle alongside you, and you’re the last person who needs to be told what a hard battle it is.

A Guide to Getting Your Court-Ordered Substance Abuse Evaluation

A substance abuse evaluation helps to measure the level of addiction in an individual. It also assists professionals in creating an effective treatment plan that can meet the specific needs of each person.

The Importance of Relapse Prevention Therapy

Relapse prevention therapy is treatment designed to identify the reasons, behaviors, and outcomes of relapse in a person during the aftercare stage of addiction treatment. Being able to understand and prepare for relapse is imperative to addiction recovery. Relapse prevention therapy armors newly sober individuals with the self-confidence and knowledge they need to live out […]

About Alcohol and Drug Assessments for Court

Are you struggling with an addiction? If you are, you may be continuingly becoming a danger to yourself, others, and the world around you. However, many do not know the extent of their addiction, to the severity. In fact, many are unsure about whether or not they actually have a problem. This is especially often [...]

Alcohol Relapse Prevention and the Three Stages of Relapse

Alcohol relapse prevention is essential for sobriety. What most people fail to realize, however, is that relapsing is a process made up of three stages.

You’re Never Too Old to Get Sober: Resources for the Elderly Addict

Nearly half of Americans say someone close to them is addicted to drugs. When most think of a drug addict, they picture a drug addict as a rebellious young person or someone who’s homeless. But would you picture your senior relatives as drug addicts? Senior drug and alcohol abuse is under-diagnosed. Unlike younger people, seniors […]

5 Questions to Ask Before You Start Dating a Recovering Addict

Are you falling for a recovering addict? If so, it's okay to feel hesitant about committing at first. Addiction has many negative stereotypes that our culture pushes on us at every turn. But it's important to educate yourself about the truth behind addiction and what it really means to be with a recovering addict. Although dating someone in [...]

Why Moral Failings Don’t Explain Addictions

For thousands of years, humans used stories in order to explain the world around them, even those things they didn’t understand. It provided a framework with which to operate and make predictive judgments, even if it was completely inaccurate or outright false. Greek and Roman mythology attempted to explain why it rains, where mountains originated […]

All Addicts Need A Support Structure To Succeed in Recovery

Every addict in New Jersey, or anywhere you look requires accommodations and treatment curated specifically to their personal needs and unique struggles in order to be successful in their recovery. However, there are a few things that everyone who suffers from drug and alcohol addiction, or really any addiction at all, require to reach active […]