Meet Jack. He is 21, from San Diego and just celebrated his sober birthday at New Roads. Growing up Jack came from a really normal family and grew up in a well-rounded community. When Jack was 16, he was smoking marijuana, drinking and was prescribed adderall. He did...
Jodi Bowles is our Admission’s and Outreach therapist here at New Roads Behavioral Health. Jodi comes from a really great background; great family, religious upbringing, etc. She is a mother of four and her story starts long ago when when she became pregnant at...
Is relapse prevention a possibility during the recovery process? Relapses are a common event in the recovery process. However, relapse is not inescapable. Some of the common predictors of relapse revolve around the individual’s demographic and life history...
Utah Behavioral Health Accepts New Challenges The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conducted a study which revealed that 22.4 percent of the adult population for Utah...
To understand the recovery process of gratitude, we need to define the feeling that comes from gratitude. The recovery process with gratitude becomes vital when someone is in the depths of depression it becomes a challenging journey to cross the rivers of sadness,...
Did you know that Alcohol and substance abuse is linked to Depression? There are almost 24 million people dependent on alcohol and other drugs in the United States alone (Grant et al., 2004), roughly 8.6 of the entire population. The risk of depression is...
Are you fighting an opioid addiction? Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US, with 52,404 lethal drug overdoses in 2015. Opioid addiction is driving this epidemic, with 20,101 overdose deaths related to prescription pain relievers, and 12,990...
Trying to get a head start on early addiction prevention? Addictions and diagnosis can start as early as childhood. Learn about how to beat addiction and get an early start on addiction prevention today! Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) The diagnosis of Reactive...
Most substance abuse patients have a perception that change is too scary or impossible. For a substance abuse patient, they tend to struggle more because making a change seems like the impossible dream. The idea of not using drugs again is always at heart of the...
Mental illness often goes undiagnosed and untreated. When this happens the fallout for the individual, family, friends, and neighbors can cause a ripple effect of confusion and misunderstandings. Someone with mental illness experiences excessive daily stressors and...
