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VisionQuest: Morningstar Youth Academy
The Basics VisionQuest is a national network of residential mental health, substance abuse and foster care facilities that have been providing support and guidance for boys and girls between the ages...
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Southeastern Illinois Counseling Centers, Inc.
The Basics Spread along the small towns of Robinson, Olney, Flora, Lawrenceville, Mount Carmel and Fairfield, Illinois, Southeastern Illinois Counseling Centers, Inc. (SEICC) offers a range of...
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Overdoses Become Advertisements
This post was originally published on February 4, 2014. Out of the millions of words thus far that have been used to discuss and dissect the tragedy of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s overdose, perhaps the...
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Accepting My Depression
This post was originally published on July 12, 2013. It never ceases to amaze me how difficult everything needs to be before I’ll ask for help. Essentially, I will struggle and fight and pound myself...
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The Step Up Support Center
The Basics The Step Up Support Center is an outpatient facility located in Little Rock, Arkansas. This not-for-profit organization was founded in 1992 and offers long-term Intensive Outpatient Programs...
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La Casita
The Basics Located in the Downey, California, a city in southeastern Los Angeles County, La Casita is a six-month residential pilot program that was established in 1996. Created by the federal...
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Tarzana Treatment Center Lancaster Youth Services
The Basics With a flagship inpatient location in its namesake, Tarzana Treatment Center also offers a youth residential treatment program in the Antelope Valley town of Lancaster, California. It...
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Tarzana Treatment Center Outpatient
The Basics Tarzana Treatment Center‘s first treatment program opened as a 314-bed inpatient facility in its namesake of Tarzana, California. It now operates multiple programs across southern...
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Making Pain into Material
This post was originally published on February 6, 2014. During this sad, weird week, as we try to make sense of the death of a person who was able to demonstrate the pain of some truly awful characters...
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He Couldn’t Stop Drinking
This post was originally published on July 19, 2013. On my first date with Michael, we met at a coffee shop in downtown Portland, where I was living at the time; I was 20, newly sober again, a student....
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Tarzana Treatment Center Women and Children
The Basics Tarzana Treatment Center began as a large inpatient program for men and women in its namesake of Tarzana, California. It now offers treatment in multiple locations across southern...
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University of Rochester Medical Center: Strong Recovery
The Basics The Strong Recovery program at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York, offers outpatient treatment to adults, 18 years and older. It facilitates a Partial...
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SETCADA Unity Treatment Center
The Basics The South East Texas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, most commonly referred to as SETCADA, was established in 1958 in Beaumont, Texas with the purpose of providing interventions,...
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Support for Harbor Area Women’s Lives (SHAWL): Sober Living
The Basics Havilland House and The Cottages are sister transitional living facilities located in San Pedro, California. Run by Support for Harbor Area Women’s Lives (SHAWL House) which has been...
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AfterPartyPod: Finding Christianity in Sobriety with Author Heather King
Author Heather King puts the rest of us to shame. She’s written so many books she literally has no idea how many. She went through law school pretty much in a black out and managed to ace the bar. And...
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The Girl Who Takes Too Much
After only a couple of hours’ sleep and a shivery, frightened night, the dawn comes. With it, the need to get up and get showered and dressed. This takes me an hour as I have to crawl across the carpet...
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Where Cocaine and Self-Esteem Meet
This post was originally published on March 6, 2014. Posts that are advertised as taking 24 minutes to read don’t tend to grab me, what with working and living and everything. Then I came across Will...
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VisionQuest: Standing Timbers Academy
The Basics VisionQuest is a national network of residential mental health, substance abuse and foster care facilities that have been providing support and guidance for boys and girls between the ages...
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Support Systems Homes, Inc.: Sober Living
The Basics Serving San Jose, California since 1990 the Support Systems Homes, Inc. Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center is a co-ed substance abuse treatment facility that provides detox, residential, day...
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Independence House Fillmore
The Basics Located in Denver, Colorado, Independence House Fillmore is dual diagnosis certified residential treatment program for men transitioning out of correctional facilities. In addition to...
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