What Gets Treated First with Co-occurring Disorders? Substance use can change people’s behaviors, moods, and personalities. When this happens, it is difficult to determine underlying causes like mental illness or trauma. Living with undiagnosed mental health issues can make a person feel pushed to the margins. Addiction is, in itself, a mental illness, but it…
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Self-Monitoring as a Pathway to Taking Back Recovery Can Help You Succeed Self-monitoring is an effective tool to help people in recovery from addiction. It is part of behavioral therapy. The idea is that behaviors can be changed when the person sees what they are doing. It is similar to looking in the mirror and…
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How Do I Find a Job with a Criminal Record? A person in recovery from addiction can find themselves in legal trouble once, maybe more, depending on their circumstances. Finding a job after getting any kind of criminal record can feel challenging and frustrating. When you are working to rebuild your life, it can feel…
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What to Know About the Risks of Juuling Juuling is a form of vaping that is popular amongst high schoolers and young adults. It is highly addictive yet marketed as a safe way to smoke nicotine. This product is disguised as healthier because it is made with nicotine salts rather than ‘free-base nicotine.’ this slim…
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Does Alcohol Impair Nutrition? Good nutrition and healthy eating habits are an essential part of providing energy for and maintaining function. Many people with alcoholism tend to eat less than the necessary amount of food to provide their vitamins and minerals for the day. Alcohol interferes with the nutrition process by impacting digestion, utilization, and…
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What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Avoidant Personality Disorder? Avoidant personality disorder (APD) is a pattern of behavior related to social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and sensitivity to rejection which causes problems in work situations and relationships. People with the disorder show a pattern of avoidance due to fear of rejection or disapproval. This…
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These 5 Lifestyle Changes Can Energize Your Recovery Addiction has no cure. It can be treated and managed but it puts you at risk for relapse. Knowing you must always work at recovery, it is important to make adjustments that are conductive to sobriety. The following five lifestyle changes may help energize your recovery in…
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What is a Hallucination? Many drug hallucinations are mild, but sometimes people are transported into another reality altogether that seems very real at the time. A hallucination is something a person sees, hears, feels, smells, or tastes yet is not really there. Hallucinations happen under the influence of drugs and can be a symptom of…
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Why Alcohol and Energy Drinks Are Not Friends Many people understand alcohol and energy drinks are two very different things and that mixing them may not be a good thing. The more we understand about the toxic relationship between the two, the greater our understanding of the danger of mixing alcohol and energy drinks together.…
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Should Treatment Goals Be Incentivized? Contingency Management (CM) is a new strategy being used for some people in recovery from addiction. It is a method of therapeutic support which provides incentives for people to achieve recovery goals. They receive tangible rewards when they reach milestones, including a number of therapy sessions or consecutive negative urine…
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