Drug Rehab

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: DRUG REHAB CAPITAL OF THE WORLD Are you or is someone you know suffering from the grips of drug addiction? In the past few decades, there have been many changes in the field of drug rehab programs and addiction and alcoholism treatment. Innovations in neurosciences and cognitive and behavioral therapies have greatly advanced […]

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ADDICTION: THE GREAT EQUALIZER Drug addiction is a chronic disease that, if untreated, destroys the lives of those it affects. The disease of addiction pays no mind to gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or any other outside identifier – it affects people from every walk of life. Despite the fact that these identifying factors do not decide […]

Treatment Center

Residential Drug Treatment: Los Angeles and Orange County Rehabilitation Programs Southern California, viewed by many as the nation’s mecca of drinking and drug abuse, is also home to a plethora of world-class options in residential drug treatment. Los Angeles and Orange Counties, rich with rehabilitation programs, are coming into new identities as they become increasingly […]

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Drug abuse can be defined as the regular use of either illegal or prescription drugs with the goal of achieving an altered state of consciousness. The change of consciousness the drug abuser undergoes varies depending on the substance ingested. Drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine (commonly known as “uppers”) cause a person to experience an intense onrush […]

Alcohol Rehab

WOMEN: DRUG ABUSE ON THE RISE Today there is a subtle epidemic striking young American women: drug abuse. Drug use may begin as a seemingly recreational behavior, but the powerfully addictive substances that young people presently experiment with, have the potential to render a person addicted in an extremely short period of time. This epidemic is […]

Healthy Body

Worth the Weight: Serena Does Right Thing With Body Issue. It’s so refreshing to see real representations of women in the media! Especially coming from a woman like Serena Williams whose body, while not a size 0, is in peak condition and her best asset. The overwhelming majority of beautiful women today seem to feel […]

PTSD Treatment

10 Reasons to Get Treatment Over the Holidays Admittedly, the idea of spending the holidays in rehab isn’t very appealing initially. But, when contrasted with the reality of drug addiction meeting large-scale family event, it starts to look a little better. The holidays are about love and family, and there is nothing that can make […]

Loved One

Are You Making it Easier for Your Loved One to Abuse Drugs? The families of people with substance use disorders inevitably end up in the difficult position of deciding whether to help their addicted loved one, or to cut them off from support. The disease of addiction infiltrates the brain with manipulative tactics – anything necessary to get […]

Happiness

Sometimes it feels like sobriety gave way not to a life of freedom and happiness, but to a plethora of unresolved issued waiting to be addressed. This makes sense. Alcohol and drugs were a means of escaping aspects of life which were difficult to handle, and years of perpetual escape allowed troubles to pile up, […]

Pill Recovery

The Importance of Nutrition and Diet in Recovery As former disciples of the school of modifying mood by means of chemicals, one might think that addicts and alcoholics in recovery would jump at the opportunity to boost their dopamine levels via their diets. But more often than not, recovering addicts opt for the quick-fix method […]