As with most every aspect of life, relationships are damaged during a period of addiction. Those that love an addict watched harmful and dangerous actions perpetrated by the addict to themselves and others over and over and this is detrimental to relationships whether romantic, familial, or friendly. The drug becomes more important to the addict…
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You’re Not Alone in Your Addiction An addiction to drugs or alcohol can lead to feeling like you have built massive walls around you and that you are the only person who is going through as difficult an addiction as you are. The thing is, though, that just is not the case. No matter what…
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Addiction can Happen Very Quickly Regardless of how strong you believe your willpower to be or how great your ability to stay restrained actually is, you are still susceptible to addiction to drugs or alcohol. Not only that, but an addiction to drugs can sneak up on you very fast, especially if you are not…
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Lately, there has been a huge number of news stories focusing on how there is an opioid addiction epidemic that seems like it is truly taking over the country. However, alcohol is still used and abused by many more people than opioids – it just doesn’t get reported on because alcohol has always been available…
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Probably more so than any other service offered to the general public, rehab is often misunderstood by many. One of the main reasons for that is the way rehab is portrayed in movies and television. Likewise, word of mouth also plays heavily into these misunderstandings. Today, we’ll be clearing up some of the myths surrounding…
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While it would be easy for a rehab center like ours to just come out and say something along the lines of, “Anyone with a substance addiction should go through detox,” that just isn’t true. And although there are many people from all walks of life who could benefit greatly from residential detox, there are…
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Detox is Only the Beginning While it can be possible to quit using an addictive substance without the help of a rehab center or a monitored detox period, there comes a point in many addictions when that will no longer be realistically possible for most people. And when a substance addiction gets to that level,…
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While many of the centers for substance abuse treatment Florida has available (like 1st Step) do what we can to help alleviate and end the addictions caused by what many in the state and country have deemed the “Opioid Epidemic”, there doesn’t seem to be any sign that it will be slowing down or under…
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Privatizing the Law and the Prison System Due to the privatization of much of the prison system in both Florida and the United States as a whole, the legal system has taken a rough turn for many people seeing as private prisons are literally making money off of having people incarcerated for as long as…
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Table of Contents Starting with DetoxTreating the Cause AND the SymptomsRehab is Just the Beginning Starting with Detox The single biggest hurdle when it comes to ending someone’s alcoholism is the first days after quitting. Not only will they be contending with the emotional and physical cravings that they will be trying to suppress, they…
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