Stress Tends to Play a Part in Cocaine RelapseAddiction, Mental Health, Recovery, Substance AbuseBy Promises Behavioral HealthApril 20, 2020The life of drug use can be challenging. However, trying to abandon that life can be equally tricky. It takes the help of an addiction treatment center, such as Promises Behavioral Health to begin the journey to recovery. But what happens after you’ve started down the path to sobriety? For some, stress and cocaine relapse…
Alcoholics: Are You Too Good for AA?Addiction, Addiction Recovery, AlcoholismBy Promises Behavioral HealthApril 20, 2020Maybe you know you have a problem with alcohol. Or, maybe you haven’t had the guts to admit it yet. But you are slowly becoming aware that things are deteriorating around you at a fairly rapid rate. You just can’t seem to put your finger on the cause – or you don’t want to. Perhaps…
Methods and Tips to Reduce Cravings for Drugs and AlcoholAddiction, Addiction Recovery, Recovery, Substance AbuseBy Promises Behavioral HealthApril 20, 2020Recovery from alcohol and drug abuse or addiction is a long and often difficult process. One of the hardest things to overcome is the almost unbearable craving you have to take a drink, use a drug, just to get over or get back to feeling good again. Cravings are incredibly hard to resist and are…
Tips for Relapse PreventionAddiction Recovery, Addiction Treatment, RecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthFebruary 9, 2020If you are a recovering alcoholic or substance abuser, you know that relapse is a not-uncommon occurrence. While it’s important to recognize this fact, there are things you can do proactively to prevent falling into relapse. Use our tips for relapse prevention to help you. Tips For Relapse Prevention Identify high-risk situations – You know…
5 Strategies for Successfully Dating in Addiction RecoveryRecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthFebruary 8, 2016In the early months of recovery, you’ve given up a lot — your go-to coping strategy, your social network, your approach to life. It’s natural to look to the comfort of new love to counteract the loneliness. Relationships can be part of healing, but finding healthy partners who support your recovery is a challenge.
Learning to Be a Party Animal While SoberNews and Research, RecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthNovember 30, 2015Adam Daar remembers what he was thinking when ordered by the courts into addiction treatment at age 14: “I’m never going to have fun again.” How could he? Partying was how the young had fun, and that just wasn’t possible without drugs and alcohol, he believed. “I was even thinking ahead to college. How am…
7 Best Foods for Reducing Alcohol CravingsRecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthNovember 12, 2015For individuals in recovery, managing alcohol cravings can be a daily struggle, but certain foods can help. The key, addiction experts say, is to choose foods that do one of three things well: improve digestion, promote steady blood sugar throughout the day or support brain chemistry.
Exercise Helps Prevent Marijuana Relapse, Study FindsDrug AddictionBy Promises Behavioral HealthJune 24, 2015Consumption of cannabis/marijuana leads to the onset of drug addiction in a significant number of users, even when use only occurs on an occasional basis. As is true with other forms of addiction, people recovering from cannabis addiction run the risk of relapsing back into active substance intake after establishing an initial pattern of abstinence.…
Author Tells of His “Ultra Recovery”RecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthJune 4, 2015Now that David Clark has run 100-mile races through mountains and deserts, it’s hard to picture him during his first weeks of sobriety. To the stunned clerks of a running store, he announced his plans to run a marathon. His basketball shorts had a waist size of 50. He weighed 320 pounds. When he got…
The Top Five Ways to Relax Without AlcoholRecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthApril 27, 2015If you have been through the alcoholism acceptance stages, you asked for help, went through rehab and joined a support group, you have done everything right to get and stay sober. These are just the basics, though. How do you plan to live the rest of your life without alcohol? Do you know how to…
