Chronic abuse and addiction often suppresses hunger and reduces the body’s natural ability to process food and absorb essential vitamins and minerals, leading many drug and alcohol addicts to enter… Read More
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Co-Occurring Disorders
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is one of the fastest-growing treatment methods for Borderline Personality Disorder. It has also shown positive results in treating a variety of mood-related disorders co-occurring with… Read More
Bipolar Disorder Treatment and Co-Occurring Disorders
We all have our good days and our bad days, but if you’re suffering from bipolar disorder these highs and lows can be so severe that they damage your relationships,… Read More
Bipolar Disorder and Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Millions of people suffer from bipolar disorder. Unfortunately, many of these people also suffer from a co-occurring substance abuse problem. Dual diagnosis treatment is the only chance many of these… Read More
Anxiety Disorder Types in Dual Diagnosis Drug Rehab
Many people in rehab suffer from a dual diagnosis of a substance abuse problem and a mental health issue such as anxiety disorder. Sometimes the substance abuse problem arises as… Read More
Anxiety Disorder Treatment for Dual Diagnosis
Everyone experiences a certain amount of anxiety from time to time, but anxiety disorders are much more severe and have serious consequences on a person’s ability to live a normal… Read More
Understanding Self-Injury and its Treatment
What is Self-Injury? Self-injury (also called self-harm or self-mutilation) is the attempt to deliberately cause harm to one’s own body through three main ways:
How to Assess Pain and Take Vital Signs
Pain reveals a lot about a person’s health, which is why it is often called the fifth vital sign. Not only does pain affect a person’s physical health, but it… Read More
What to Do After Alcohol Rehab
Graduating from an addiction treatment program is very rewarding, but your feelings of happiness are probably mixed with feelings of fear and uncertainty. How will you respond to life outside… Read More
Drug Rehab Aftercare
Recovery from drug addiction doesn’t end once you leave the doors of rehab. Completing a rehabilitation treatment program is just the beginning of a long journey to maintaining sobriety. Drug… Read More
