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How to Celebrate Stress Awareness Month

Everyone experiences stress from time to time. Stress can prompt you to take action to prevent something negative from happening, which is a valuable function. However, stress can also overwhelm you and leave you feeling tired, wired, and stuck in a rut. April is Stress Awareness Month, the perfect time to look at how stress …

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Residential Treatment Isn’t as Scary as You Think

If you’re considering starting residential treatment, it makes sense that you may be afraid. You are suddenly unsure about what the future holds for you. While many resources exist combatting common myths about what substance abuse treatment will be like, it’s easy to get the wrong idea. Even certain media portrayals rely on outdated and …

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There Is Hope for Opioid Recovery

Opioids are powerful substances that help people needing strong pain relief. They can be essential when recovering from surgery, managing cancer or dealing with other painful health issues. But anyone using opioids is at risk for misuse. Despite the challenges, there is hope for opioid recovery.  Here we’ll look at what opioids are and how …

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Mind-Body Connection in Addiction Treatment

Addiction is a uniquely challenging disease to overcome. It affects us not only physically but also mentally, emotionally and spiritually. By this, we mean that the disease that drives our physical need for the substance also fuels our emotional drive to avoid overwhelming feelings and whispers lies that run through our minds on repeat. The …

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Online Support Groups Are Making Recovery Waves

The need for online support groups multiplied when the COVID-19 pandemic changed the world. Online support wasn’t new at the time, but its role in addiction treatment expanded. Since then, people have taken more notice of online support options.  People who have experience with an issue but no professional training may lead some online support …

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Get Rooted: About Our Alumni Program

When treatment ends, participants of our residential, intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs face yet another challenging task: reentering their community with sobriety in mind. While remaining in treatment in perpetuity is not possible, our alumni networks offer a more tailored program for this stage of the process. Many triggers—whether they take shape as environments …

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Combining Medications for Opioid Use Disorder and Therapy

Counseling therapy is an essential part of opioid addiction treatment. But are you aware of how important medications for opioid use disorder are? Many people don’t realize that the FDA has approved three medications to manage withdrawal symptoms and reduce the risk of overdose. Read on to take a closer look at the importance of …

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Learning Self-Love: A Love Letter to You

This week is an exciting time for Promises Behavioral Health! During the second week of February, we celebrate Promise Week. It is a time for us to reflect on what it means to make a promise to others and ourselves. To paraphrase RuPaul, “If you can’t love yourself, how can you love someone else?” Truer …

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Why is Peer Support Important in Substance Abuse Recovery?

Support groups in substance abuse recovery have been around for decades, helping people connect and learn about life with addiction. But peer support is more than just weekly meetings. They play a big part in a person’s lifelong recovery process.  Here we’ll dig deeper into peer support and why it’s so important in substance abuse …

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