How to Stage an Intervention
How to Stage an Intervention The Blackberry Center Behavioral Hospital Troy Borges 👍Interventions allow close friends, family and loved ones to take a stand in the battle against addiction....
How to Tell Friends You’re Sober in 4 Steps
How to Tell Friends You’re Sober in 4 Steps The Blackberry Center Behavioral Hospital...
4 Must-Have Books on Addiction and Recovery
4 Must-Have Books on Addiction and Recovery The Blackberry Center Behavioral Hospital Troy Borges...
5 Signs of Alcoholism and What to Do Next
5 Signs of Alcoholism and What to Do Next The Blackberry Center Behavioral Hospital...
Chronic Drug Use & Abuse: Risk Factors, Symptoms, and Treatment
Chronic Drug Use & Abuse: Risk Factors, Symptoms, and Treatment The Blackberry Center Behavioral...
4 Must-Have Books on Addiction and Recovery
4 Must-Have Books on Addiction and Recovery The Blackberry Center Behavioral Hospital Troy Borges 👍If you’re struggling with alcohol addiction, drug addiction or other...
How Addictive Are Painkillers?
Pain is a universal experience, but some deal with it more often than others. Every year in the United States, as many as 50...
Signs of Cocaine Addiction: What to Look for
Cocaine addiction can consume a person’s life, making it difficult to convince them to seek help. If you believe someone you know is living...
Don’t Let ADHD and Addiction Control Your Life
Researchers have identified a connection between ADHD and addiction, wherein having ADHD predisposes one to develop a substance use disorder, especially if their ADHD...
The Cost of Addiction: The Financial Impact of Long-Term Drug Use
“Addiction treatment is too expensive.” If you added up the cost of maintaining a drug addiction, what does it cost you? What is the...
International Overdose Awareness Day: Raising Awareness to Save Lives
August 31st is international overdose awareness day. It is a date to remember those we’ve lost to overdose and to break down the stigma...
Trauma-Informed Care for Veterans in Florida
When it comes to effective, evidence-based mental health and substance use recovery for veterans, there are certain therapeutic approaches that can make all the...
Mental and Physical Effects of Long-Term Addiction
It’s common knowledge that there can be noticeable effects of long-term addiction. For years, organizations like the National Institute on Drug Abuse have advised...
The Link Between Trauma and Addiction
Unfortunately, experiencing a traumatic event, especially in childhood, can have negative outcomes if not resolved. For example, substance abuse and addiction can arise from...
5 Surprising Benefits of Music Therapy for Addiction Recovery
The idea of using music in healing has been around since the days of Plato and Aristotle. Then, during the late 1700s, scientists began...
What Is Alcohol Use Disorder?
Since drinking is socially accepted in many cultures, it can be challenging to spot the difference between a person who likes to have a...
How to Detox from Meth
Although many people try to become sober on their own, professional drug therapy is significantly more likely to result in long-term methamphetamine addiction recovery....
How to Prevent Relapse
Depending on what you do after you use meth, a relapse might be a little slip-up or a terrible setback. When you start using...
Dealing with an Addiction and Mental Health Disorder at the Same Time
A substance use disorder coupled with one or more mental health disorders can have serious consequences. In order to take hold, the rehabilitation process for individuals...
