Amanda’s recovery story begins before her drug use began. Her family had a history of addiction with both parents being active in addiction. Her father had a hard time with substances and served jail time while Amanda was a teenager, so it was an easy decision...
May is national mental health awareness month. Many people have a diagnosable mental health condition that goes untreated. Many don’t speak about mental health or about medications used to help those effected; however that is changing. With recent statistics...
Sober living after treatment can be challenging. Without strategy and the right education from a residential treatment center, it can be difficult to prevent relapse events. Here are 5 P’s to consider when creating your sober living strategy to make finding...
Chris’s recovery story begins with an addiction to heroin. He explains that the substance abuse extended beyond a heroin addiction to alcohol and a few other drugs. Chris’s recovery wasn’t simple, he didn’t just attend a treatment center one...
Young adult addiction is an epidemic for many communities across the United States. With that being said, there are areas that seem to higher rates of substance abuse and addiction problems. Often mental health can be associated with drug and alcohol abuse....
Suicide is the 10th leading cause for death in the United States. Statistics released this year by the Center For Disease Control have found increasing rates with a strong correlation to drug use and mental health disorders. Many of the warning signs of suicide also...
The clients at New Roads Behavioral Health have a variety of backgrounds. Self harm treatment is available for clients with complex emotional pain that may lead to drug and alcohol addiction. Many new clients come to New Roads looking for help with what seems like an...
A few years back, the phrase “failure to launch” became more well known as Matthew McConaughey showed his character’s inability to move out of his parents’ home in a film released in 2006. This film made light of the fact that many young adults...
Eric Schmidt sits down with ABC4 Good4Utah to talk about borderline personality disorder. While this disorder may be known in mental health field, many people fail to recognize symptoms and warning signs of those that are effected. Along with these warning signs and...
One of the pitfalls of delivering treatment for mental health concerns is the diagnosis. Treatment is too segregated or the program only provides strict guidelines for one diagnosis, age group or gender. When a treatment program fails to help a client recover, it can...
