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Understanding Anger and How It Affects Recovery
Are you angry and frustrated all the time? Have your behavior and poor choices made others angry with you? Anger is a state of feeling frustrated, irritated, or enraged after experiencing negative internal or external triggers. While anger is a natural, necessary...
What Healthy Social Media Use Looks Like in Addiction Recovery
Social media is any internet platform that supports conversations, info-sharing, and web content creation for users. Social media is so much more than Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly called Twitter). Blogs, social networking sites and forums, podcasts, video and...
Club Drugs and Their Allure
Imagine this: flashing strobe lights; pounding electronic music with an upbeat, bubbly base; people dancing energetically all around you; happiness, laughter, a buzz in the air. You’re in a crowded club, it’s pre- or post-pandemic (take your pick), and life is good. ...
When and Why Relapse Spikes
Are you more at risk for relapse at certain times of year or in certain situations? The honest answer is: yes. Relapse is a universal experience, but it finds us in unique ways and through triggers that may look or feel insignificant to others. However, those who...
The Best Prosocial Activities in Recovery
Prosocial activities include any action that benefits other beings, both human and animal, directly or indirectly. If you’re participating in a prosocial activity, you’re supporting, providing for, consoling, working for, or cooperating with others in some way to help...
Benzos: Common Misuses and Dangers
You may recognize a group of sedatives called benzodiazepines by their brand names: Valium®, Xanax®, Halcion®, Ativan®, and Klonopin®. Commonly referred to as benzos, the earliest form of the drug first appeared on the American pharmaceutical market in the late 50s....
How To Build Resilience in Recovery
When individuals in recovery hear the term resilience, they may think of a quality they don’t possess—or a challenge they doubt they’ll be able to overcome. What many don’t realize is that there’s an entire field of scientific research dedicated to resilience theory....
How to Identify Toxic Relationships
Toxicity in a relationship is present when the relationship makes one or both people feel regularly misunderstood, undervalued, or unwanted.
How Physical Exercise Improves Mental Health
More than half of everyone who enters treatment for a substance abuse disorder (SUD) relapses within just twelve months. Relapse is a common occurrence, and it doesn’t make or break the possibility of successful long-term recovery. If you feel like you’re heading...
Why Your Career Can Still Bounce Back in Recovery
It’s no secret: the American economy sustains repeated hits due to drug and alcohol abuse. Traffic fatalities, lower productivity at work, rising insurance premiums, and more can be attributed to the effects of substance use disorder (SUD) in the workforce. At the...
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