Finding Employment After Addiction Treatment
After putting in all of the hard work at rehab, former addicts then have to face perhaps one of the next big challenges of their life–employment. Jobs after addiction treatment are a vital part of the overall recovering process. While a person may have been equipped with the behavioral repurposing and gone through therapy to …
DREW BARRYMORE TALKS ABOUT DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION
Actress Drew Barrymore is now 47 years old (2022), a mother, producer, and entrepreneur. However, at the age of 13, Barrymore found herself admitted into a mental health institution by her mother for a year and a half and legally emancipated from her parents at age 14. Her struggles with substance abuse at such …
How to Support a Spouse in Addiction Recovery
There are few things that can place more of a burden on a couple than drug or alcohol addiction. The challenges that come with caring for someone who is currently undergoing or has undergone addiction treatment to overcome an addiction can either strengthen or destroy a relationship. After all, addiction can take a severe toll …
What is Relapse Prevention Therapy?
When patients finally leave an addiction treatment rehab, there’s usually a sense of relief. However, that sense of relief is almost always short-lived once the individual discovers the battle for recovery has only just begun. It takes a lot of hard work for someone to get through treatment. Through detox and therapy, they have to …
What We Can Learn About Addiction From Mac Miller’s Death
Mac Miller’s tragic overdose-related death in 2018 sparked a conversation about addiction in today’s modern society. The 26-year-old rapper was found unresponsive in his home on September 7, 2018. He had reportedly struggled with substance abuse for some time. Miller had been open about his struggle previously in interviews. In 2013, in an interview with …
Tips for Handling a Bad Day in Recovery
Being Resilient During the Ride Addiction recovery is a life that reaps both short and long-term rewards. Though recovery is a special kind of life because it is filled with gratitude and humility, it is still life just like any other because it has its ups and downs. An important lesson for those in recovery …