Peer Recovery Advocates: Providing Continuing Care After Treatment

Social support is an important part of recovery from substance use disorders. Anyone working an addiction treatment program can benefit from all types of social support, but the guidance of someone who has had similar experiences with drugs or alcohol is particularly powerful. Peer recovery advocates are in recovery themselves, and they devote their time—either as volunteers or as paid staff—to provide recovery services and social and emotional support to their peers.

Preventing Drug Abuse Starts at Home with Parents

Parents tend to underestimate the power they have to affect their children’s lives, especially as they become teenagers and the influence of their peers grows. The truth is that for most young people, parents have the biggest impact on many aspects of their lives from their values to their health choices.

importance of early education to prevent addiction

The Importance of Early Education to Prevent Future Addiction

Many people think of drug and alcohol addiction as problems affecting adults. However, in reality, patterns of substance abuse and addictive behavior are often first established in adolescence, or at an even younger age. This means that early education plays a critical role in preventing the onset of substance use problems in later life.

Symptoms & Signs of Sexual Addiction

Sex addiction, also known as compulsive sexual behavior disorder or hypersexuality, is classified as a mental disorder by the World Health Organization (WHO). Sexual addiction is characterized by a “persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges resulting in repetitive sexual behavior.” It’s estimated that 3 to 6 percent of people experience compulsive sexual behavior in the United States.

How to Stage an Intervention That Works

An intervention is an organized event designed to encourage someone with drug or alcohol problems to seek treatment. The methods used by the people who stage these events can have a major impact on their success.

Faith in Recovery Spreads Hope and Healing

People enrolled in addiction treatment programs have had experiences that can affect their self-esteem, emotional stability and sense of community with others. These experiences can also erode any sense of faith in something beyond the predictable ups and downs of everyday life.

Caring for Children of Addicts

In America, millions of children live in households that have at least one parent affected by a substance use disorder. This can lead to serious disruption within the home that can result in significant problems for the child’s health and well-being.

Symptoms & Signs of Mood Disorders

A mood disorder is a type of mental illness that impacts a person’s state of mind, emotions and outlook on life. It causes changes and distortions in mood that are not…

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