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6 Steps for Setting Boundaries with Someone in Recovery

When someone pursues recovery, your relationship with them can change for the better. By setting up boundaries early on and communicating your feelings effectively, you and your loved one can develop a mutual respect that tends to your needs just as much as their sobriety. Follow these 6 important steps from Addiction Recovery Coach Rick Lepkowski.

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What Does It Feel Like to Go Through Drug Withdrawal?

Drug and alcohol withdrawal is a painful and disruptive period of time, but there are ways to alleviate these difficult symptoms. By using pain management tools and healthy coping mechanisms, experiencing withdrawal can be more manageable.

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Detox vs. Rehab? Which is Right for You?

Although many use these terms interchangeably, detox and rehab each have their own purpose. While detox primarily focuses on addressing the physical effects that addiction has had on the body, rehab focuses more on the psychological effects.

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Education & Awareness

Drug Users Outnumber High School Students by 50 Percent

The opioid crisis has spread nationwide. In San Francisco, the effects are so severe that there are more drug users than high school students.

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Family Wellness

Juul: The Dangerous Trend Among Teens

School administrators, doctors, and FDA officials are worried about the dangerous, long-term consequences of e-cigarettes. Learn everything you need to know about vaping, including how to keep your teens safe.

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Recovery

Life After Residential Addiction Treatment

Completing addiction treatment and achieving sobriety is a grand accomplishment. But there are also challenges to life after treatment. Here are some tips to help you strengthen your recovery.

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Mental Health

Could Anxiety Be Causing You to Drink?

Do you suffer from anxiety? Do you find yourself drinking alcohol to feel better? Learn about the connection between alcoholism and anxiety, and what you can do to treat both.

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Drug Addiction

From Schools to Local Parks, Nowhere is Safe from the Opioid Crisis

The opioid epidemic is putting the public at risk of being exposed to powerful drugs and contracting diseases such as hepatitis and HIV. Learn how and what community leaders are doing about it.

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Recovery

The Opposite of Addiction is Not (Just) Sobriety

While developing strong relationships is important for everyone, for those in recovery, human connection can often be the difference between long-term sobriety and relapse.

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Trending Recovery Topics

Meth: The Silent Killer

While the opioid epidemic has been captivating the nation's attention, methamphetamine has made a silent but powerful comeback. In many cities, it is now killing more people than opioids.

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Alcohol

Drinking to Death

Americans are drinking themselves to death faster than ever before. Learn more about America's silent killer: alcohol.

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Family Wellness

Teens and Drugs: What Parents Need to Know

Addiction takes many forms and can affect anyone. Learn the signs of teen drug addiction to determine whether your child is secretly struggling.

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Finding the Right Addiction Treatment for You

Finding the right treatment program can be a challenging process, and because everyone’s treatment needs are different, knowing where to start isn’t always intuitive.

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New Laws Pose Important Question: Who Should Be Held Responsible in Overdose Deaths?

They were friends. They shared drugs and overdosed. One survived, and the other died. Who should be held responsible when an overdose occurs?

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Family Wellness

9 Ways You Can Help Someone Affected By Depression

Like addiction, depression is a disease that can disrupt a person’s quality of life. Learn what you should and shouldn’t do to help a loved one cope with it.

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