Category: Sober living

Our shame isn’t warranted; nonetheless, we feel responsible for the actions of the addict. Our self-esteem deteriorates from the addict’s lies, verbal abuse, and blame. Our sense of safety and trust erodes as our isolation and despair grow. I refer to alcoholism, but many of the feelings that partners experience are the same, regardless of…

Content What is substance use disorder? Gender Differences in Alcohol Use Disorder How is treatment for women different from treatment for men? How is alcohol use disorder treated? They describe the crisis as evolving in three phases, over several decades from the 1990s. The first phase involved an increase in the use of prescribed opioids…

Eventually I want to open my own treatment program for people affected by HIV/substance abuse. I would also like to chair meetings at N.A., which is something I started doing at New Life House before my stroke. At the age of 16, he revealed his sexuality to his mother and she made him leave the…

Learn about the signs, symptoms, and treatment options to better empathize with your loved one’s experience. Medication-assisted treatment can play a crucial role in managing drug addiction by combining medications with behavioral therapies. Detoxification is the first critical step in the treatment process, involving the safe and supervised removal of the substance from the body.…

According to the National Center for PTSD, the most beneficial kind of therapy for benzodiazepine withdrawal is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). This type of therapy can help you challenge and reframe unhelpful beliefs and behaviors and replace them with more productive ones. For example, say you’re tapering off a dose of 20 milligrams (mg) of…

For most people, the cholesterol present in food doesn’t have that much of an effect. However, most of the cholesterol in the average person’s diet comes from animal-based foods such as meat and dairy, which are also high in saturated fat. Saturated fat clearly raises LDL cholesterol and should be consumed in limited amounts. Foods…

Content Understanding Addiction Relapse Triggers What Are the Symptoms of Relapse? Frustration as an Addiction Trigger Benefits of Creating a Relapse Prevention Plan How Facing Your Triggers Can Prevent Relapse This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows…

Excessive drinking habits can also increase the amount of time it may take. In urine, alcohol can be detected from 12 to 130 hours if a person has been drinking excessively. Phosphatidylethanol (PEth), a biomarker that reflects alcohol intake, can be detected up to 14 days in urine. Alcohol can be detected from 12 to…

As patients fill in where the milestones are on the timeline, they also draw symbols that represent the event. Expressive arts therapy incorporates elements of all forms of creative expression into a multimodal expressive form of integrative psychotherapy (Knill et al., 2005). The article will also introduce training programs and degrees in expressive arts therapy…

Furthermore, the specific neuronal circuitries were progressively mapped with major projections from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) to the nucleus accumbens (NAc, i.e. the ventral striatum), the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and amygdala. Collectively, this network of neurons was denominated the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system [12, 13]. In addition, there are dopamine projections from the VTA to…