
What is Outpatient Treatment & How Does It Work?
Have you or a loved one recently just begun struggling with an addiction and are wondering what options are available for treatment? Generally, there are two main types of treatment for an alcohol or drug addiction, inpatient drug rehabilitation and outpatient drug rehabilitation. Outpatient treatment is designed for those with a mild addiction who also lead a busy life and…
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Women and Alcoholism
Women and Alcoholism How a Glass of Wine a Night has Turned into an Addict Wine is often considered a classy drink, a reward for the busy, sophisticated man or woman, something to be sipped, tasted, and enjoyed over dinner. But when a glass poured for decompression turns into one poured out of need, we’re no longer talking about a…
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Identifying Alcoholism – Physical and Behavioral Signs
Identifying Alcoholism Identifying alcoholism as an active drinker is seldom seen. Most of us do not like to think we have lost control of our drinking. Like most every other alcoholic, I, too, was ashamed to admit I had a problem. It wasn’t as if I was falling down in the street or making a fool of myself in public. I…
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Sober Life: 5 Tools for the First 30 Days of Recovery
Living a Sober Life: 5 Tools for the First 30 Days of Recovery Congratulations! Living a sober life is the biggest and best decision you may ever make in recovery. It is critically important that you get some tools to help set right your mind. All the changes you are about to face will require a solid set of fallback…
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First Step To Recovery
First Step to Recovery: Stop Flying Solo What compels us to take that proverbial ‘first step to recovery‘? What compels us to do that which is bad for us? Why do we repeatedly self-inflict pain when we know our choices are bad and that they are destructive? We actually DO CARE, yet CANNOT STOP! We routinely ask ourselves: Why…
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