Tag: health and wellness

Prescription Pain Pill Addiction

Prescription Pain Pill Addiction

by | Jan 10, 2018 | Articles

Prescription Pain Pill Addiction Rates Rising Every day, ordinary people gratefully accept prescribed painkillers following surgery or a serious accident. People with chronic back problems or other ongoing issues have little choice but to stay on painkillers. The...
Alcoholism in the Family

Alcoholism in the Family

by | Jan 3, 2018 | Articles

Alcoholism in Family Alcoholism is a terrible disease that has already harmed many people and will continue to do so until we find a solution. When learning the factors that contribute to alcoholism, it’s important to consider the role a person’s family...
Effects of Opioid Use on the Brain

Effects of Opioid Use on the Brain

by | Dec 27, 2017 | Articles

How Opioid Use Impacts the Brain The opioid problem is becoming increasingly severe and is impacting lives around the world in profoundly negative ways. Although police and mental health professionals have been searching for an answer that could put an end to the...
Mental Health & Addiction – Dual Diagnosis

Mental Health & Addiction – Dual Diagnosis

by | Dec 14, 2017 | Articles

Dual Diagnosis Treating an addiction without addressing a coexisting behavioral or mental health issue is seldom successful. Many people who become addicted to alcohol or drugs also have other conditions, including depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress...

The Science of Addiction

by | Apr 24, 2014 | Articles

For many people, addiction is seen as a social condition. Those who end up addicted to drugs are often seen as morally weak. They are expected to simply stop their behavior and make better choices for themselves. And in fact sometimes that happens. However, this is...

Our graduates tell their stories…

As I Arrived. I had a lot of emotions going on coming here: anger (getting “help”─again─but this time out-of-state), and fear (first time on a plane, going to the middle...
- Shari
When first arriving at St. Gregory I had mixed feelings about the health and wellness workouts. I came in at 136 lbs and didn’t think it was possible to reach...
- Chris
The good life is not merely a life free from addictions, physical and/or psychological—addictions that usually are the outward manifestations of deeper problems—but a life lived in harmonious balance, free...
- Matt
I came to St. Gregory’s at my all-time worst—physically, emotionally, and mentally. Having gone through a bad rehab experience once before, I had been very reluctant in succumbing to that...
- CJ
No matter where I start my thought process when reflecting upon my time before, during and after St. Gregory’s, I always seem to end up in the same place in...
- Kaele

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