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Relapsing After Treatment: Now What?

Jamie Strassenburg September 7, 2021 Addiction, Recovery, Relapse Leave a Comment

Although treatment programs vary, most try to drive home a sobering statistic so patients take their disease seriously: most alcoholics and addicts in early recovery end up relapsing after treatment ...

CDC Reports Overdose Deaths in 2020 Break All Records

Jamie Strassenburg August 6, 2021 Addiction, Culture, Featured Leave a Comment

While the opiate epidemic has been raging for years, recent data reveals that the problem is only getting worse. According to a report just released by the US Center of ...

When Will My Family Trust Me Again?

Jamie Strassenburg July 14, 2021 Addiction, Culture, For Loved Ones Leave a Comment

Head changes have a way of clouding the working space of our mind. While the first drink or hit welcomes that cozy tingle of detachment, we do not realize that ...

5 Tips for Codependent Family Members

Jamie Strassenburg June 25, 2021 For Loved Ones Leave a Comment

There are few things more heart-wrenching than watching a loved one struggle with active substance abuse. As a behavioral disease that warps thinking beyond one’s control, the person you know …

Intensive Outpatient Programs: How to Balance Treatment with Work

Jamie Strassenburg April 15, 2021 Recovery

Maybe you've just landed your dream job and there's no way you can take time away to get help. Or perhaps you have a wife and two kids to support ...

Recovery Has Setbacks (And That’s Okay)

Jamie Strassenburg April 8, 2021 For Loved Ones, Recovery, Relapse Leave a Comment

Many people see recovery as a linear upward progression of slowly getting better, one day at a time. But overcoming chemical dependency of any kind is an ongoing process which …

When Anxiety Takes Over Your Life

Jamie Strassenburg March 19, 2021 Health and Wellness, Trauma Leave a Comment

Anxiety can be a conundrum. Thoughts and fears about (insert today's worry here) race ceaselessly, never giving you a break, to the point that you become physically and mentally exhausted. ...

Vivitrol Reduces Cravings for Opioids and Alcohol

Jamie Strassenburg March 17, 2021 Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Health and Wellness, Recovery Leave a Comment

Though admitting you need help and checking into detox is one of the hardest steps on the road to recovery, there are plenty of trials after one gets clean and …

How Telehealth Supports Long Term Recovery

Jamie Strassenburg January 27, 2021 Featured, Health and Wellness, Recovery Leave a Comment

If there’s one thing you learn from working a recovery program, it’s this simple adage: “It works if you work it.” Seems simple enough, right? Just do what your 12-step …

COVID Relapse: Do I Need to Tell Anyone?

Jamie Strassenburg October 29, 2020 Addiction, Featured, Health and Wellness, Recovery Leave a Comment

It’s getting closer to the end of 2020, and COVID is still raging stronger than we expected back when this all started back in March. Cases decline enough for us …

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