Stonehenge Therapeutic Community Supportive Housing
The Basics Stonehenge Therapeutic Community in Guelph, Ontario Canada was founded in 1971 as a long-term residential treatment program for adults with a history of substance abuse. Over the years, it...
View ArticleSouth Coast Counseling
The Basics Founded in 1954 in the sunny beach town of Costa Mesa, California, South Coast Counseling provides a comprehensive and holistic approach to treating clients struggling with substance abuse...
View ArticleSerenity Lodge Lake Arrowhead
The Basics Based out of Lake Arrowhead, California, Serenity Lodge Lake Arrowhead provides treatment to adult men struggling with addiction and co-occurring disorders. Aside from its outpatient...
View ArticleRoots Through Recovery
The Basics Roots Through Recovery is an outpatient treatment center with an optional sober living component, located in uptown Long Beach, California’s Bixby Knolls community. A full continuum of care...
View ArticleNew Recovery Center Uses—Yep—Pot to Treat Addiction
When I went to rehab for alcoholism, “controlled drinking” wasn’t on the menu. Quite the opposite. The alcoholic in me, though, would have been thrilled to hear that cabernet was part of treatment. I...
View ArticleREADER SPOTLIGHT: How I Got Sober: Hayley
People get sober in all sorts of ways. Sometimes they just quit on their own. Sometimes they go to rehab. They show up in 12-step rooms, ashrams, churches and their parents’ basements. There is no one...
View ArticleProject Renewal: Renewal Farm
The Basics Headquartered in The Bowery of New York City, Project Renewal is a program dedicated to helping homeless men and women struggling with addiction and co-occurring disorders. One of its...
View ArticleSaint Barnabas Hospital Chemical Dependency MMD
The Basics Founded more than a century ago, in 1866, the Saint Barnabas Hospital runs out of the Bronx, in New York City. A more recent addition, the Saint Barnabas Hospital Chemical Dependence MMD...
View ArticleSam Rayburn Memorial Veterans Center
The Basics For over 10 years, the Sam Rayburn Memorial Veterans Center has provided male and female US veterans with residential substance abuse treatment in its treatment program in Bonham, Texas. It...
View ArticlePinnacle: Delaware Valley Medical
The Basics For over 10 years, Delaware Valley Medical has been providing outpatient Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for opioid addicts in Pennsauken, New Jersey. Pennsauken is located just across...
View ArticleTahoe Youth and Family Services
The Basics With a network of three facilities in Nevada and California, the Tahoe Youth and Family Services outpatient substance abuse treatment program has been running since 1971. Residents in South...
View ArticleDo Common Painkillers Cause Hearing Loss in Women?
If you’re anything like me, you tend to ignore all the possible side effects printed on the medicine box. Then again, that’s probably the alcoholic in me, ignoring all the important details I should be...
View ArticleEven When You’re Sober and Happy, Life Can Still Sometimes Suck
I’ve been through some heavy shit in recovery. To be perfectly honest, most of my problems have been of my own creation. The rest of it was just regular life stuff that kicked my ass. In the early...
View ArticleHabitude
The Basics Habitude provides men’s-only residential substance abuse treatment in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Since the facility is about 40 minutes south of Toronto and 40 minutes north of Niagara...
View ArticleCentered Health
The Basics Based out of Malibu, California, Centered Health is a CARF-accredited residential treatment facility for adolescents in recovery from addiction and co-occurring disorders. Boys and girls...
View ArticleReasons Eating Disorder Center Inpatient
The Basics Based out of Rosemead, California, Reasons Eating Disorder Center is an expansive behavioral health organization that provides treatment for eating disorders as well as co-occurring...
View ArticleWestCare Kentucky Estill County Community Involvement Center
The Basics Based out of Irvine, Kentucky, WestCare Kentucky Estill County Community Involvement Center provides flexible outpatient treatment programs to clients struggling with alcohol and drug...
View ArticleReasons Eating Disorder Center Outpatient
The Basics Based out of Rosemead, California, Reasons Eating Disorder Centler is an expansive behavioral health organization offering treatment for eating disorders and co-occurring disorders like...
View ArticleIs the Meth Defense as Wacky as the Affluenza Defense?
There are a lot of defenses getting thrown around court on behalf of people who (ostensibly) involuntarily kill others. You may have heard of the Affluenza defense when Ethan Couch was sentenced to 10...
View ArticleWhen Did I First Know I Was Neurotic? Er, About the Age of Three
It was my first day of preschool, and I was three. We all sat around a large rectangular folding table, about 10 boys and girls in total, waiting for class to begin. In the center of the table stood...
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