It can be very difficult to watch one of your friends or family members suffer with addiction. Where is the line between enabling and cutting them off too much. Knowing someone you love is hurting themselves in this way and damaging their future in a detrimental way is hard to just stand by and watch.… Continue Reading How To Host An Intervention
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) are usually offered through a business’ human resources department or a third-party. These programs can help you get the assistance you need with substance abuse while still maintaining your employment status. EAP benefits are offered as a way to maintain the worker’s productivity by decreasing absenteeism and workplace accidents. Even if… Continue Reading How To Use Employee Assistance Programs
The War on Drugs has been a long ongoing policy that has put millions of people behind bars. The War on Drugs started with president Richard Nixon in June 1971. Of course, there were anti-drug laws for things such as opium and cocaine as early as the late 1800s and early 1900s and the Controlled… Continue Reading The War on Drugs: Pros & Cons
Millennials, also sometimes referred to as Generation Y, are categorized by their coming of age at the turn of the millennium. The actual birth years of the millennials vary from 1980-1984 until 2002-2004. As of 2017 the oldest millennials will be 37 and the youngest 13 years old. They grew up with technology and are… Continue Reading Prescribing Millennials
When you are looking into treatment programs for yourself or for someone you love it can be confusing and disheartening. There are so many options, so many questions, and so many unknowns, it’s hard to know where to start. Typically, nowadays when we have a question we just look it up online, but what do… Continue Reading Finding The Right Level of Care in Addiction Treatment Programs
“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?” – Phil Connors (Bill Murray in Groundhog Day,1993) Anyone who suffers with addiction can relate to this quote on any day of the year not just Groundhog Day. You open your… Continue Reading Same Drug, Different Day
Over 2,500 years ago, a man named Siddhartha Gautama revolutionized the spiritual world with the philosophy he called, “the Middle Way”. This new spiritual approach discarded much of the dated and stale spiritual practices of his time, while preserving revising much of the good pieces. Siddhartha, in his moment of awakening, discovered that all that… Continue Reading Refuge Recovery: “The Middle Way” of Recovery
Haven’t we all had at least one experience where we question “why me?” Why am I faced with this difficult challenge? Why did they do that to me? Why was I harmed? What have I done to deserve this? Haven’t we all had at least one experience where we question “why me?” Why am I… Continue Reading The Write Way to Find Meaning: Therapeutic Letter Writing Part 1
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