She shared that she’d been “very dedicated” to her recovery. “I’ve been working with other addicts, alcoholics, concurring disorders, things like that,” Allison announced during her update interview seven years later. “I thought I had died already,” she said about her time using. Penny-Lee was a mom who lived in a small village in Hawaii… Read More

Another issue is the judgment surrounding drug addiction and treatment, the experts said at Wednesday’s forum. When someone is in crisis, desperate for help, they might instead find a nurse or police officer who sees addiction as being different than other health emergencies. “Relapse pays,” Johnson said, and that’s why local investigators have been working… Read More

Prior studies have found that parental relationships are important factors that influence alcohol use (for example Borawski, Ievers-Landis, Lovegreen, &Trapl, 2011; Jackson, 2002; Rai et al., 2003), but there are several dimensions to this relationship. Parental relationships may serve as a protective factor to prevent or reduce alcohol behaviors (Jackson, 2002; Borawski et al., 2011)…. Read More

Society cannot expect political leaders alone to bear responsibility for warning adolescents about the risks of substance abuse, however. Embarrassed by their own behavior as adolescents, baby boomer parents are ambivalent about raising the issue of substance abuse with their children, according to CASA medical director Herbert D. Kleber, M.D. At lower risk were teens… Read More

We work with individuals of all walks of life & are very community + structure oriented at our home. We specialize in the treatment of substance abuse. While sobriety houses do not provide individual or group counseling, they offer a structure and organization that helps people avoid drugs and alcohol. Sober houses are generally less… Read More