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Avoiding Addiction Triggers and Relapse Risks

While we can make major progress within a treatment program, the situation is different when we re-enter our everyday lives. Without the same level of structure and support, it becomes easier for us to succumb to triggers and even relapse. Here are four strategies to deal with addictive triggers in the real world.

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How Do Opioids Alter the Brain?

For an opioid addict, understanding how the brain reacts to opioids is a helpful tool in recovery. We offer an overview of the brain’s reaction to opioids and how this impacts recovery from opioid addiction.

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Does One Drink Count as a Relapse?

If you have been diagnosed with alcohol use disorder then the answer is yes, one drink counts as a relapse. Because addiction is a chronic condition, there is no cure, and no cure means managing your disease one day at a time for the remainder of your life.

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Understanding Codependency and Addiction

Relationships are complicated, especially when addiction is a factor. In families with addiction, the addicted person often becomes a sort of eye at the center of the hurricane.

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Five Tips for Managing Addiction Recovery, Even in Quarantine

Navigating addiction recovery with potentially months of social distancing ahead seems daunting. Let’s take a look at what’s working in some recovery communities and what help is available for those struggling.

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The Real Facts Behind Binge Drinking

Most Americans are familiar with the idea of “binge drinking” even if they aren’t familiar with the term. You may not, however, know the true impact binge drinking has on your body, both in the short and long-term.

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How to Confront an Alcoholic – Without Losing Your Cool

Identifying the truth, in the face of a family disease like addiction, isn’t an easy task. This is especially true if you’ve been living with active addiction. To help, we’ve put together some tips on constructively confronting someone struggling with alcohol addiction.

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Loving and Supporting an Addicted Adult Child: Creating Calm Amid the Storm

It’s an unfortunate reality how many of us who have children battling addiction tend to get in the “way” without even knowing it. While this may be the hardest lesson of our lives, we must learn to step aside and allow the consequences of addictive behavior fall upon the ones we love.

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Why Cold Turkey Detox Isn’t Safe

Recovering from addiction is rarely successful when someone goes it alone. This is particularly true of detox. Simply abstaining from a drug isn’t recovery. In fact, attempts to control your use of a substance without the right support is a symptom of addiction.