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Is Music Therapy Right for You?
Music therapy is a new form of therapy being used both in one-on-one and in group settings. As its mental health benefits are being shown through research, it is becoming more and more of a common practice. It may be especially helpful for those in...
Maintaining Dedication: How to Stay Dedicated to Your Treatment
Addiction recovery is a journey that requires commitment, determination, and dedication. This can be a long and challenging journey. Unfortunately, it's not uncommon to experience a loss of motivation or dedication along the way.How to Maintain...
How Can Family Therapy Support Healthy Relationships in Recovery?
Recovering from substance use disorder (SUD) is not only about the substance itself. To recover, you must seek to heal your past and your present. One way you can do this is through family therapy.Family therapy can help people heal trauma from the...
Dealing With the Social Stigma of Addiction and Mental Illness
The stigma surrounding addiction and mental illness is an unfortunate reality in our society. It can, for example, prevent individuals from getting the help and support they need. This can keep people isolated as they struggle with addiction and/or...
How Can Acupuncture Benefit Addiction Recovery?
Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine. It has been used for thousands of years to treat a variety of physical and emotional conditions. Some of its benefits may be especially helpful in addiction recovery.How Does Acupuncture...
What Is the Connection Between Alcoholism and PTSD?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcoholism are debilitating psychiatric conditions that commonly co-occur. Most often, PTSD happens first, and alcohol is used to self-medicate some symptoms of PTSD.What Is PTSD?PTSD is an anxiety disorder...
What Are the Long-Term Effects of Opioid Use?
Opioids are depressant drugs with analgesic properties that come in many forms. They can be created from natural ingredients in plants or produced as synthetics. Sometimes, prescription opioid use is undertaken for short-term medical...
What Can Group Therapy Help You Learn?
Humans are social creatures. We are born into a group and join other groups as we grow. The people we spend time with and the values of the groups we are in affect our beliefs, choices, and health. It should be no surprise, then, how effective...
Treating Substance Abuse as Disease, Not Crime
Substance abuse is, without a doubt, harmful to the individual and the family. Additionally, treatment and recovery are primarily the responsibility of the individual and family, at least until they seek help.However, substance abuse has many...
What Are the Symptoms of Alcohol Withdrawal?
Going through alcohol withdrawal is the first step in recovery from alcohol use disorder (AUD). Unfortunately, that is not an easy process. Alcohol withdrawal refers to the set of symptoms that occur when a person who has been drinking heavily...
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