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5 Tips for a Smooth Transition from Residential Addiction Treatment to...
Graduating from residential treatment is an important milestone in your recovery journey. As you prepare to return to independent living, you’ll need to work on putting the skills you learned in...
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Tips for Making Friends in Recovery
Recovery is a time of new beginnings. For many people, that includes reevaluating old friendships and cutting ties with anyone who isn’t supportive of their newfound sobriety. Ending toxic...
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Denial and Addiction: How to Help Your Loved One Acknowledge the Need for...
Denial can be a powerful coping mechanism when accepting reality seems too painful. Because addiction is often stigmatized, it’s common for people with substance use disorders to be in denial about...
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Making Amends in Recovery
An active addiction can cause us to say or do things that are completely out of character. We may lie, cheat, or steal. We may lash out verbally or physically when confronted about our substance abuse....
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Are You Supporting or Enabling? Here’s How to Tell the Difference
Enabling is often unintentional—and generally comes from a place of love. You hate to see your loved one suffer and want to make their life more manageable, but your actions cause more harm on a...
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Understanding the Difference Between Inpatient and Outpatient Addiction...
Substance use disorders are chronic illnesses with complex biological and environmental triggers. A person with a substance use disorder can learn to manage their condition and live a fulfilling,...
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Addiction Affects the Whole Family: What It’s Like to Live With Someone Who...
When an opioid abuser is in the home, their addiction can have a ripple effect on everyone around them. Just as a person with an opioid use disorder needs access to comprehensive care to begin their...
View ArticleHow the ADA Protects People in Recovery
Although we’ve seen significant progress towards improving the public’s understanding of substance use disorders in recent years, people in recovery often still struggle with stigma that affects their...
View ArticleWhy Successful Recovery is A Group Effort
If we zoom as far out as possible from our loved one’s substance use disorder (SUD), we see that its effects ripple into larger social systems. We see that the person struggling with addiction is...
View ArticleHow Parenting Styles Connect to Substance Use Disorder
Emotionally immature parents can affect their children’s development in ways that may make them more prone to substance use disorders as adults. What does it mean to be emotionally immature? We know...
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