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Family Systems and Addiction
How Do Family Dynamics Affect Addiction? Recovery professionals have long acknowledged a correlation between family dynamics and addiction. Substance use affects both the individual in need of recovery and the family members affected by their addiction. Addiction will...
What To Expect In Outpatient Treatment
What Am I Looking At? For the uninitiated drug and alcohol users, it can be very difficult to know what to expect from any given treatment program. The main reason behind this is because each level of care can vary greatly in both costs and services offered. Since our...
Insurance and Addiction
Insurance and Addiction When you or your loved one are trying to find an addiction treatment program, you're probably wondering, “how am I going to pay for all this?” Financial payments for addiction are one of the largest obstacles to getting treatment. Even if...
Levels of Care
What Are Levels of Care? When someone goes into addiction treatment, they will be sent to one of 4 levels of care. For some people, they need to start in a detox facility and work their way down, while others may not. It’s important to remember that you may not need...
What is Fentanyl?
What Is Fentanyl? For anyone who’s unfamiliar with the opioid epidemic, you may not know about the rise of Fentanyl. Over the last several years, Fentanyl has drastically increased the amount of Opioid related fatalities. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that’s 50-100...
Cannabis Addiction
Is Cannabis Addiction Real? Contrary to some opinion, cannabis can most definitely be used addictively. Pot has remained a popular drug of choice for teens and adults since the 60’s. Additionally, there has been a drastic increase in people 13 and over reportedly...
Residential Treatment vs. Extended Care
What To Know About Inpatient Addiction Treatment There’s 4 levels of addiction treatment on the continuum of care. Most people who are trying to recover from addiction will experience residential addiction treatment or extended care facilities. Both of these are level...
Exercise And Recovery
How Does Drugs and Alcohol Affect The Body & Mind Substances like methamphetamine, alcohol, cannabis, fentanyl, and cocaine can impact the body and brain in many ways. Substances such as heroin activate neurons in the brain by bonding to their corresponding...
Mental Health And Covid 19
Mental Health And Covid 19 Over the past 2 years, the world has experienced a predicament that has not been seen in a century. The Covid-19 pandemic took a huge toll on people’s mental health and overall wellbeing. Symptoms of stress, isolation, depression, anxiety...
My Year In The Berkshires
A friend of ours recently spent a year living in the Berkshires and wrote this piece, which he was kind enough to allow us to share: What’s So Special About The Berkshires Anyway?!? Have you ever taken a road trip across America and had to stop in a rinky dink...
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