Substance abuse recovery and treatment are unique to each. The 12-step program was developed for an alliance of people coming together to help others also dealing with an addiction and find a way to move towards a path of abstinence. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was the...
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...
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...
Substance abuse disorder and treatment providers are open to considering complementary and alternative medicine interventions, and Music Therapy falls into this category. Clinical research, case studies, and stories reveal that music has an extraordinary capacity to:...
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together becomes reality.” -Yoko Ono Substance abuse has a way of shifting thoughts to another reality. The reality is very lonely, and the daily activities of life are happening because of the...
