Addiction is insidious in the way it latches onto you and takes full control of your life. The cycle of use serves to build an ever-increasing tolerance which means you need progressively more and more of the substance just to get by and stave off withdrawal symptoms. It’s a slow-motion train wreck. The path into … Read more
Watching someone you love descend into addiction is a brutal thing to witness. You feel absolutely helpless and it seems like whatever you do or say is wrong. Somehow it all seems to backfire and further entrench self-destruction. The distance between you and them – and them and everyone else who loves them – grows … Read more
The straightforward answer is that it depends. Each and every substance, be it alcohol, cocaine, benzodiazepines or opioids, stays in your body for different lengths of time. So, the answer to how long does detox last is essentially reliant on what you’re taking as well as how dependent you’ve become on that particular drug or … Read more
Nestled in the foothills of Santiago Peak in the Saddleback Valley and just a quick jaunt from the glistening shores of the Pacific, it’s tough to conjure a more idyllic setting than Mission Viejo from which to start your journey of recovery. Boasting those enviable and eternally comfortable Southern California and located outside of the … Read more
First things first, eating disorders are not a choice. Among the biggest and most pervasive myths around these disorders is that people actively choose them. It’s just not the case. To that end, the first thing that the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) notes before describing eating disorders is that very fact. They add … Read more
Trauma casts a long shadow.Whether it’s experienced as a child or as an adult, if trauma isn’t addressed and dealt with properly – if it’s allowed to linger in perpetuity – it can slowly eat away at a person.In some cases that manifests in a substance use disorder where drugs and/or alcohol are used to … Read more
How long have you been working at Safe Harbor?I have been working at Safe harbor for 21 monthsDid you start off at Safe Harbor as a Case Manager?I started off as a client care coordinator, that’s our term for employees with tech duties. Observing med pass, intakes, discharges, rounds, cleaning the house, taking gentlemen to … Read more
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between 2011 and 2015, “excessive alcohol use was responsible for an annual average of 95,000 deaths and 2.8 million years of potential life lost. Almost half of these deaths and three-quarters of the years of potential life lost were due to binge drinking”. In 2018, … Read more
Panic, anxiety, insomnia, seizures. The world can be a maddening and tough place to exist but this is the only place we’ve got. Unfortunately, that means people – perhaps yourself or a loved one – are out there suffering from the aforementioned conditions. Restless nights leading to increased stress which turns to panic and anxiety. … Read more
The way law enforcement views drugs and harmful addictive substances is a little different than how we may view addiction. Drugs and other controlled substances, as considered by under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), are divided into five schedules and are regulated by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Drugs, substances, and certain chemicals … Read more
