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Acadia: West Lebanon Comprehensive Treatment Center
The Basics For over five years, West Lebanon Comprehensive Treatment Center has provided outpatient Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for opioid addicts. It currently offers treatment plans using...
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Could Asthma Medication or Special K Cure Alcoholism?
At the core of my being, I am incredibly lazy. When I first heard the word “work” tossed around in meetings, I cringed. I mean I wanted to get sober but “work”? Ugh. That sounded hard. Couldn’t I just...
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Why I’m Convinced No One Wants to Date a Sober Person
I’ve been on an ungodly number of first dates in my adult life. I’m pretty stellar at casual dating, but not so stellar at actual relationships. With the exception of one, the relationships that did go...
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Acadia: Village Behavioral Health
The Basics Village Behavioral Health is a residential treatment facility for adolescents located in Nashville, Tennessee. Village Behavioral Health treats substance abuse and mental health as well as...
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Project Renewal
The Basics Project Renewal was first established in 1968 as a cooperative project between the New York Court System, the NYPD and the Bureau Institute of Justice. The intention was to create an...
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Catholic Health: STAR-Amherst
The Basics Created in 1998, Catholic Health is a network of inpatient facilities, imaging centers and outpatient facilities serving Buffalo, New York and the surrounding areas. Its Substance Treatment...
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Triumph Treatment Services: Inspirations
The Basics Triumph Treatment Services is a Washington state network of substance abuse treatment programs and facilities with specialized programs tailored to meet the unique needs of men and women....
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Service League: Hope House
The Basics Service League was created in 1990 to provide supportive services to the residents of San Mateo County, California, just south of San Francisco. Operating religious services within the...
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UK Gambling Addicts Are Breaking More Than the Bank
There’s a scene near the end of Rounders where law student/cardshark Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) describes how he feels walking into an underground poker hall: “Few players recall big pots they have...
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How I Learned to Love 12-Step Meetings Again
The last thing on my mind when I walked into my first meeting 15 years ago was becoming a lifelong 12-stepper. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to live another damn day. I knew I wanted to stop shooting...
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AfterPartyPod: How Art Helps Addicts with Joe Polish
Marketing guru Joe Polish can’t simply be described as a marketing guru. The founder of ILoveMarketing and the Genius Network, Polish is one of the world’s leading business coaches (this can happen...
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The Coleman Institute
The Basics The Coleman Institute is an accelerated outpatient detox program founded in 1998 by Dr. Peter Coleman. With multiple locations in major cities across the country, The Coleman Institute...
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Habitude Outpatient
The Basics Forty minutes south of Toronto and 40 minutes north of Niagara Falls, Habitude is a men’s-only substance abuse treatment facility in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Serving both Canadian and...
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Reasons Eating Disorder Center
The Basics Located in Rosemead, California, Reasons Eating Disorder Center is a behavioral health facility offering treatment for eating disorders and co-occurring disorders like addiction. Aside from...
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The Lotus Collaborative
The Basics With locations in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, California, The Lotus Collaborative is a multi-faceted organization with outpatient, Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) and Partial...
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Serenity Lodge Lake Arrowhead Outpatient
The Basics Located in Lake Arrowhead, California, Serenity Lodge Lake Arrowhead is an expansive behavioral health organization that provides treatment to adult men struggling with addiction and...
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Woman Busted for Injuring Her Dog to Get Pain Meds (Cringe)
Addicts do some pretty fucked up shit to get high. I have shared openly about pilfering medicine cabinets, stealing from my former employer and climbing into the dumpster behind my old apartment after...
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READER SPOTLIGHT: How I Got Sober: Robert
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...
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Retreat Premier Addiction Treatment Centers Outpatient
The Basics Retreat Premier Addiction Treatment Centers is a CARF-accredited behavioral health organization providing treatment to adults struggling with addiction and co-occurring disorders. Though it...
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United American Indian Involvement: Robert Sundance Family Wellness Center
The Basics Founded in Los Angeles, California in 1974, United American Indian Involvement is a specialized treatment program that aims to provide mental health, substance abuse and social services that...
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