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The Recovery Place cautions consumers looking for help with drug and alcohol addictions not to consider treatment centers that take a solitary treatment modality approach. Making the client fit the treatment, instead of the other way around, is a major cause for relapse. — Addiction is a complex illness that is more...

Mother Nature is a mystery that keeps us on our toes. It is impossible to prepare for some of the curve-balls weather throws at us and even harder to cope through the damage it can cause. It is crucial when the unpredictable hits us that we find healthy ways to survive the ruin rather than falling into drugs and alcoho more...

The Recovery Place is concerned about the flip side of the Japanese strength: being unable to overtly express feelings of stress and anxiety during times of natural or manmade calamity. — Fall seven times and stand up eight is the literal translation for the famous Japanese proverb Nanakorobi yaoki. When life k more...

The NCAA Basketball Tournament is almost here and round ball fans everywhere are getting their polls up and running, their picks sorted and weighted and making sure TVs and munchies are locked and loaded. It’s going to be a siege, and in more ways than one. Behind the hoop-la lurks an ugly secret that is in place or more...

Alcoholism isn't a spectator sport. Eventually the whole family gets to play" – Joyce Rebeta-Burditt But just how do you get out of the game?  Alcoholism treatment comes in such a confusing array of options, what is the best way to choose a rehab option that will work? Look for these key qualities in an alc more...

One from Column A, one from Column B, and a couple of sides. Sound delicious? It’s not. At least not in addiction terms. In Column A is the addiction problem. Sometimes you even get two items from this column, since many people have a dependence or addiction to drugs and alcohol. Column B covers mental health i more...

Teens and young adults are coming up with creative ways to use legal substances to achieve a high. The Recovery Place finds major concern in the negative health issues and addiction still inherent to these new “legal” drugs. — Teens and young adults are coming up with creative ways to use legal substances t more...

Sherlock Holmes’s faithful assistant Dr. Watson was much savvier than his drug addicted famous detective friend. In one of the earliest of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels, Watson expresses the fact that drug rehabilitation isn’t easy. In fact, it is anything but elementary. Addressing Holmes’s cocaine add more...

The National Institutes of Health Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has researched and documented what The Recovery Place knows, and has addressed, from the beginning: Addiction is a family disease!  Comprehensive alcohol and drug rehab programs must support family members just as fully as the addict or alcoholic is be more...

The Recovery Place March blog series takes a look at the specialized treatment tracks that help addicts, alcoholics and their families find the program that best meets their unique needs “Powerlessness is the first step to finding any type of spiritual growth,” explains Charlotte Day, Lead Clinician for the Chri more...