There is a whole range of emotions that you experience when you go into drug addiction treatment. Most people who realize they’ve become addicted to opiates face a desperate desire to quit using, combined with anger at themselves because they want to keep using, and frustration at the people around them who don’t understand the unique nature of their addiction. We previously discussed how ...
Fighting Anger: When Opiate Rehab Turns You Inside Out
In Pixar’s 2015 film Inside Out the protagonist is a young girl named Riley whose core emotions come to life on the screen, in the form of Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger. Her cool, calm world is overturned when her parents move the family from Minnesota to San Francisco. But Riley doesn’t have to deal with anything compared with the gamut of emotions that affect people in opiate ...
Managing Opiate Addiction Treatment and Mental Illness
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) tells us that approximately 45 percent of all the people who request substance abuse treatment—including opiate addiction treatment—have some kind of mental or emotional health disorder that occurs at the same time. The people at opiate addiction treatment centers refer to this existence of both addiction and another ailment as ...
The Early Stages of Opiate Drug Addiction Treatment
What kinds of changes do you undergo when you are in the early stages of opiate drug addiction treatment? When you stop doing drugs or alcohol, you invoke a huge change in your biochemical make-up as you throw your body into withdrawal. Even if you switch from heroin or opiates to medication-assisted therapy using methadone or buprenorphine, in order to ease the symptoms of withdrawal, you still ...
Best Phone Apps For Substance Abuse Recovery
What are the chances that an "electronic friend” will be able to predict whether or not you are close to relapsing? There are amazing updates in the resources for substance abuse recovery that are available to you. Some of them are still in the works, and there are other smartphone applications that are cheap and available now for download to your Android or iPhone. News of A-CHESS was ...
Drug Addiction Recovery in California: Having Fun Again
Are you working on drug addiction recovery in California? No matter whether you’re looking for a recovery group with AA, NA, or even MA—Methadone Anonymous—the Alano Clubs can be a place for you to find peace and safety. They're also a place to discover that you can have fun without chemicals. Years ago, a fictional drinking hole featured in a television show was made famous by the catchphrase, ...
