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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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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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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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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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Addiction Treatment

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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Recovery

19 Reasons to Get Sober in 2019
The new year is just around the corner and it is the perfect time to make some real changes. If you are struggling with drugs and alcohol, why not make this the year you change your life?
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No Longer a Family Secret: Obituaries Shine a Light on Addiction
Drug overdoses were once kept hidden behind closed doors. But as the opioid epidemic spreads, more and more families are sharing the truth about their loved one’s use, addiction, and death ⎼ in hopes of helping others who are struggling.
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Recovery

5 Ways Dogs Can Help You Stay Sober
When you are in recovery, having a strong support network is important. According to research, having a dog as part of that network could help you stay sober. Learn all the ways dogs can strengthen your sobriety.
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Drug Addiction

Addiction Vulnerability: Could You Be Prone to Addiction?
While it is impossible to determine who will and will not become addicted, there are certain risk factors that make you more prone to addiction.
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Alcohol

What to Expect When Quitting Alcohol
While everyone's battle against addiction is unique, there are certain things that everyone can expect and prepare for.
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