Have you decided to take the first step in recovering from alcohol addiction? Then congratulations on taking the hardest step towards recovery. Once you’ve made the decision to stop drinking, you’ll need to go through alcohol detox. If you’ve been drinking heavily, this could be a difficult process. You may experience a lot of withdrawal effects. This...
Everyone is afraid of something but overcoming fears in recovery can mean the difference between life and death. We know that sounds very broad and exaggerated but it’s true. In 2011, 21.6 million people needed treatment for addiction and only 10 percent received some kind of specialty treatment. In contrast, more and more people are...
How to sleep better is likely not one of the things you really thought about before recovery. Maybe sleep is something that came easily to you. Afterall, it’s a basic human need and one that many of us take for granted. That is until the days of your head hitting the pillow and falling asleep...
When someone you love is addicted to drugs or alcohol, the toll it takes on family relationships can be devastating, especially as a parent. It’s likely that you’ve heard many opinions on what to do as a parent with a child suffering from the disease of addiction. Some say to take the tough love approach, while...
Getting help for drug or alcohol addiction through drug rehab is a good thing. It signifies the willingness to get your life back on track and take control of your body. The rehabilitation process is a grueling one and a patient needs all the support he or she can possibly get from friends and family. However,...
We are so excited to finally announce that The Discovery House helped Kacy, a once multimillionaire who lost everything to her addiction to alcohol seek alcohol addiction treatment on episode three of A&E’s Emmy Award-winning television series, Intervention, now in its 15th season. Kacy had it all, wealth, success, and a loving family. At just...
If you’ve made the decision to get help for drug or alcohol abuse, you’ve conquered one of the toughest challenges on the road to recovery. Before you begin your journey of learning how to live a sober lifestyle, you need to have a clean, substance-free system. Most addiction treatment programs begin with a medically-supervised detox to...
The American Society of Addiction Medicine defines addiction as a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This dysfunction is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors. But what if...
