Relapse Prevention | Tips to Identify Triggers

April 26, 2022August 9, 2018

To understand issues surrounding recovery and relapse prevention, it’s important to first understand addiction and the components of recovery and relapse. Addiction The American Society of Addiction Medicine provides the following definition: “Addiction is characterized by inability to consistently abstain, impairment in behavioral control, craving, diminished recognition of significant problems with one’s behaviors and interpersonal relationships, …

Coping with Triggers

April 26, 2022July 18, 2018

It’s a fact that addiction can occur to anyone at any time. There are no socioeconomic, ethnic or religious limitations to this disease. It might be affecting your life right now. Learn how to avoid triggers once you are in drug rehab recovery in Fl. Once you become dependent on a substance, it’s difficult to …

How to Maintain Sobriety After Drug Rehab Residential Care

April 26, 2022June 29, 2018

Making the decision to get professional help for your substance abuse issue will be the best decision you could ever make. During residential addiction treatment you learn a lot about yourself, and you can truly recover from any addiction that is present. Gain drug rehab sobriety today! The recovery process is a journey that is …

How Addiction Affects the Family Unit

September 20, 2022June 10, 2018

Addiction can completely take over one’s life. The pain and suffering not only affects the addicted individual, but the loved ones as well. Addiction is a family disease, and there can be a lot of deception and anger present in the entire family unit. At our drug and alcohol treatment center in Florida, we understand that …

Is It Time for a Drug Rehab Intervention?

September 20, 2022April 18, 2018

Friends and family members of loved ones struggling with addiction frequently realize that interventions represent a path toward effective treatment. Unfortunately, those outside of a profession associated with drug and alcohol counseling might not know how to perform an intervention. Few even know if one is necessary although many do realize that rehab might be …

How Alcohol Awareness Month Can Make an Impact

September 20, 2022March 29, 2018

How Alcohol Awareness Month Can make an Impact Jeanne is 19 and just started college in her hometown at Ruralville Community College. She’s a bright girl, pretty and sweet, but she has a secret. Jeanne is an alcoholic. A few of her close friends know she drinks, but none to the extent she does except …

Preventing Another Parkland Shooting Tragedy

September 20, 2022March 9, 2018

The tragedy that occurred at Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, resulted in the deaths of 17 students and staff as well as the injury of 14 others. Once again, the eyes of America and the world were turned toward the problem of gun violence. Everyone has the same question on their mind: …

Top 5 Warning Signs of Alcoholism

April 27, 2022February 14, 2018

There are countless warning signs that a person is developing an addiction to alcohol. Drinking every night (regardless of amount), drinking with intent to be drunk, feeling like alcohol is a need, experiencing withdrawal symptoms without alcohol, feeling aggression or agitation spontaneously, acting unusually compulsively, drinking in dangerous situations such as at work or in …

Florida’s Opioid Epidemic

September 20, 2022February 1, 2018

Following a persisting opioid epidemic trend throughout the United States, the population of Florida is experiencing overwhelming amounts of opioid abuse, addiction, nonfatal overdoses, and fatal overdoses. The opioid epidemic has become a public health crisis across the entire state of Florida as the numbers of opioid-related overdoses and deaths are increasing at a staggering …

Stopping the Overdoses: America’s Problem with Opioids

April 28, 2022January 25, 2018

You quite literally must have been living under a rock for the past five or six years if you don’t know America is facing a opioid drug overdose epidemic. Last year, as reported by the NIH, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a total of 64,070 people died from a drug overdose in the US. That’s more …

Blog