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Wabash Valley Alliance
The Basics Wabash Valley Alliance is a community mental health provider with outpatient substance abuse treatment locations throughout East-Central Indiana. It has been serving the residents of the...
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Washington County Youth Services Bureau
The Basics Washington County Youth Services Bureau serves children, adolescents and their families throughout the state of Vermont. Headquartered in Montpelier, it operates the Healthy Youth Program,...
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VIP Community Services Medically Supervised Outpatient
The Basics Based in the Bronx since 1974, VIP Community Services provides various substance abuse treatment services including gender-specific inpatient programs for men and women, a program for opiate...
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5 Celebrities You Probably Didn’t Know Were Sober
This post was originally published on May 5, 2014. Nearly anyone can name a handful (or six) of famous folks who’ve been touched by addiction. Some of them are, well, pretty vocal about it–getting in...
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Relationship Addictions in Families
This post was originally published on July 13, 2013. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I help people heal from unhealthy, unsatisfying and destructive relationships. Sometimes these relationships...
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VIP Community Services Women’s Residential
The Basics Since 1974, VIP Community Services has provided substance abuse services out of the Bronx, New York City. VIP Community Services treatment options include a program for opiate addicts, a...
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United States Veterans Initiative Houston
The Basics Based in Houston, Texas, the United States Veterans Initiative has been active since 1998 as a nonprofit organization providing outpatient counseling services and substance abuse treatment...
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The W House of Hagerstown Foundation, Inc.
The Basics The W House of Hagerstown Foundation, Inc. opened its doors in 1988 to provide long-term residential treatment to women in Hagerstown, a city just south of the Pennsylvania border in Western...
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R & R Sober Living
The Basics R & R Sober Living has been serving the residents of North County San Diego for over 15 years. The company has grown significantly in the last three years and now has 175 sober living...
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Exploring the Stigma of Mental Illness
This post was originally published on April 3, 2014. “Screw stigma. I’m coming out,” news anchor Mark Joyella writes about his mental illness in a moving essay of the same name, for Medium.com. And his...
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The Ecstasy Cure?
The post was originally published on May 6, 2014. An article in The Verge explores the idea of a drug like MDMA being therapeutic in the treatment of PTSD. And as controversial as this idea might be, I...
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Watch What You Say In Early Recovery
This post was originally published on June 29, 2013. Working with addicts and alcoholics, I pay close attention to the details. My mind tends to create graphs and charts of behaviors, of sayings, of...
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Ventura County Behavioral Health: A New Start for Moms
The Basics Ventura County Behavioral Health provides a variety of substance abuse and prevention programs throughout Ventura County in Southern California. Its Oxnard location offers A New Start for...
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VIP Community Services Outpatient
The Basics Established in 1974, VIP Community Services provides outpatient and residential substance treatment to residents of the Bronx, New York. In addition, it offers a number of other supportive...
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Transitional Family Services
The Basics Established in 1993, Transitional Family Services (TFS) provides specialized, short-term crisis management and psychotherapeutic intervention services to Georgia’s youth, adults and elderly....
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Waynesboro Family Clinic
The Basics Since 1979, Waynesboro Family Clinic (WFC) has been providing comprehensive, private, community mental health services for families in the Goldsboro, North Carolina area. Services are...
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Just How Easy Is It to Score Drugs on Instagram?
This post was originally published on June 2, 2014. Just how easy is it for kids to score weed, pills, and other illicit substances by scoping on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and...
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Kids in Bars
This post was originally published on July 25, 2013. My husband and I snagged two warm seats at our neighborhood watering hole late on a cloudless Saturday afternoon. Foamy lagers and summer ales...
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Wits End Recovery
The Basics Wits End Recovery opened in Orange County, California in 1990. Founded by a former husband and wife team who are both in recovery, the facility focused on individual substance abuse...
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Sunspire Health: Texas Outpatient
The Basics The New Jersey behavioral health network Sunspire Health operates rehabs in California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Oregon, South Carolina and Texas. In November 2015, Sunspire Health...
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