Ensuring a transition from rehab to continuing care

What helps people stay in a drug addiction treatment center?
Since successful outcomes often depend upon retaining the person long enough to gain the full benefits of drug addiction treatment centers, strategies for keeping an individual in the program are critical. Whether a patient stays in treatment depends on factors associated with both the individual and […]

Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Suki
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Drug abuse strips its victims of their dignity and their capacity for hope

The fact that you’re here, reading this, says you probably don’t need a lecture about the perils of drug addiction. You know that drug abuse strips its victims of their dignity, and their capacity for hope, and that it turns them into shells of the people they used to be. The good news is that […]

Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Suki
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The perils of drug addiction

What makes a drug rehab program successful? Intimacy, for starters. As should probably go without saying, drug addiction is a personal disease. Drug rehab programs have to pose personal solutions to it. Some California drug treatment centers make the mistake of turning addiction treatment into a generic process, as if what works for one drug […]

Posted on January 16th, 2008 by Suki
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I was falling faster than the rocks I smoked

I went to a drug addictions treatment center once in my life and it wasn’t to get a job. In all actuality I went to a drug addiction treatment center to do a job more than anything else. The job I went to accomplish was getting sober. I had a flaming case of drug […]

Posted on October 24th, 2007 by Suki
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Making myself sober

Drug treatment centers get the job done. Oh yeah. I know a couple people who have had some complications with drugs and drug addiction. Drug treatment centers are the best way to get your life back on track, especially if drug addiction is what got your life off track. There are some things in this […]

Posted on October 1st, 2007 by Suki
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The fear can not be remotely involved

 In an addiction treatment program a person can find the tools that they need to get themselves away from drug addictions. Anybody who has been through the terrible pain of drug addiction knows how hard it is to have in your life. It’s definitely not a joy to have around. An addiction treatment program can […]

Posted on September 18th, 2007 by Suki
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