New Year’s Resolutions to Help Keep You Sober
This year, don’t aim for perfection with your New Year’s resolutions: strive for ongoing sobriety and all the steady, quiet progress that this entails. It’s not easy to make and stick to New Year’s resolutions for 365 days, especially when you’re also struggling against addiction and relapse. However, you can make your resolutions your secret […]
How to Develop Healthy Habits in Addiction Recovery
Many people take time at the beginning of each new year to reflect on the past and to look forward to the future. In looking ahead, many of us make resolutions, or a list of changes we would like to make in our lives. As someone who has made the choice to get clean and […]
The 7 Absolute Best Quotes About Recovery
When the going gets tough, many people turn to a motivational quote to help them find the inspiration they need to move forward along a challenging or difficult path. A few choice words from a famous person, religious leader, author, or even a regular Joe can often be very helpful to us. In recovery, hearing, […]
How to Break the Cycle of Addiction
If you are someone in recovery, or are even someone still trying to get successfully clean and sober, and you are a parent – the thought of your children going down the same excruciating path that you did can be terrifying and heartbreaking. Unfortunately, scientists believe that genetic factors play a big part in addiction. […]
How to Choose an Addiction Counselor
No matter how strong and motivated and ready to face the world you feel after leaving rehab, it’s absolutely vital that you find qualified, regular support as soon as possible after your release and return home. While the counseling you received as a part of your program helped you to get clean and sober and […]
How to Tell Your Family About Your Drug or Alcohol Problem
Congratulations! You accepted that you have a drug or alcohol problem and now you are seeking help for it. You are already on the road to recovery! Now, it’s time to tell your others about this new and major development in your life and future. But how? Telling others about an addiction can be difficult, […]
How to Stay Sober During the Holidays
Thanksgiving. Christmas. Hanukkah. New Year’s Eve. New Year’s Day. Super Bowl Sunday. This time of year is riddled with gatherings and parties – and that’s great! It’s wonderful to get together with friends and family and celebrate and be festive. It’s the time of year to eat, drink and be merry… but WAIT! For individuals […]
How Affirmations Can Help in Recovery
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.” – Henry Ford Affirmations can change your life, and can help you immensely on your path to recovery. Although affirmations don’t work for everyone, they are very effective for many, and many successful people from all walks of life use them every day […]
Is Ibogaine Treatment a Scam?
Ibogaine treatment is another silver bullet way to interrupt the addiction cycle in the brain—just long enough for a comprehensive treatment plan to be put in place and followed. It, therefore, allows an addict to escape the immediate throes of withdrawal, and the pain and suffering that accompanies the process, and instead stay committed to […]
The History Of The War On Drugs [Infographic]
Curious about the origins of the “War on Drugs”? From the 1800s until now, politics, economics, and interested parties have fueled the war on drugs in the United States: