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When Recovery Goes Online
This post was originally published October 14, 2013. If you’re in recovery from addiction and haven’t heard of the online recovery community InTheRooms, you may have missed the memo that recovery has...
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Treatment Centers of Illinois
The Basics With facilities in Boilingbrook, Schaumburg, Lombard and Palatine, Illinois, Treatment Centers of Illinois is an expansive organization that provides a range of flexible addiction treatment...
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Treatment Centers of America
The Basics With facilities in Augusta, Kennesaw, Brunswick, Newnan and Waycross, Georgia as well as Panama City, Florida, Treatment Centers of America is an expansive, CARF-accredited organization...
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Coastal Detox
The Basics Coastal Detox is a detox and inpatient alcohol and drug treatment program for adults on Florida’s beautiful Treasure Coast. Located in the town of Stuart, Florida, Coastal Detox is about 40...
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Sanctuary for Sober Living
The Basics Located in the Los Angeles suburb of West Hills, California, Sanctuary for Sober Living is an upscale sober living facility for women. The goal of Sanctuary is to offer its clients a...
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After Surgeon General’s Report, A Move Toward Better Treatment Options
Last year was another record-breaking year for drug overdose deaths, with opioid addiction claiming lives around the nation at an alarming rate. At the same time, 2016 also represented a shift in the...
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A Sober Alkie’s Reflections on Normal People
This post was originally published June 12, 2013. I am a shameless people watcher. People fascinate me in all their glorious and numerous shapes, colours, sizes, nationalities and creeds. Now that I...
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Paramount Recovery Services
The Basics Paramount Recovery Services is a sober living facility for adult men in Prescott, Arizona. Sober living professionals, Kevin Brown and Bryan Hullihen, founded Paramount in 2014 and it...
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Kinghaven Treatment Centre
The Basics Kinghaven Treatment Centre was founded in 1971 as a recovery house for men in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Over time, it has grown into a modern 62-bed men’s residential treatment facility....
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The Oasis
The Basics The Oasis is a substance abuse treatment center located on the second floor of Tampa Community Hospital, which has been serving the community of Tampa, Florida for over 30 years. As the only...
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A Better Place Transition Housing
The Basics A Better Place Transition Housing is a sober living facility for men located in Surrey, British Columbia. A Better Place has been in operation since 2009 and emphasizes teamwork and peer...
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Massachusetts Overdose Rates Reach Record High, Highlighting Need For Treatment
In 2016, about 2,000 Massachusetts residents died from opioid overdoses. With drugs now killing five times the number of people who die in car accidents, the need for treatment in Massachusetts is at...
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Karaoke and Addiction
This post was originally published June 21, 2013. I really sucked at karaoke before I got sober. And when I say I really sucked, I mean I really sucked. Unfortunately, I also really liked to do...
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The Solutions Foundation
The Basics Founded in 1992 by CEO Michael L. Hudspeth in Los Angeles, California, the Miracle Institute now known as the Solutions Alcohol and Drug Recovery Foundation DBA The Solutions Foundation,...
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Suffolk County Hauppauge Department of Community Mental Hygiene
The Basics Suffolk County Hauppauge Department of Community Mental Hygiene (SCH) is an outpatient substance abuse treatment facility in Hauppauge, New York operated by the Suffolk County Dept. of...
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Eternal Awakenings
The Basics Founded in 2002, Eternal Awakenings is a Christian-based residential substance abuse treatment facility for men and women in Gonzales, Texas—just an hour east of San Antonio. It offers a...
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Triad Therapy Mental Health
The Basics With locations in Winston-Salem and Asheboro, North Carolina, Triad Therapy Mental Health is an outpatient facility that provides a range of counseling programs for addiction and...
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Are Oreos Actually More Addictive Than Cocaine?
The post originally published November 1, 2013. A study out of Connecticut College made the media rounds because scientists produced preliminary data showing that Oreo cookies have the potential to be...
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Partying the AA Way
This post was originally published July 6, 2013. It was in a career workshop, in early 2000, that I first learned about Al-Anon. Each week, a tribe of six women (including me) would assemble in a...
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Perception Programs Outpatient
The Basics Based out of Willimantic, Connecticut, Perception Programs is an expansive behavioral health organization founded in 1970. Aside from its more intensive residential treatment programs, it...
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