The Seahawks and Broncos are meeting in this year’s Super Bowl, which has been the subject of several jokes on the Internet of because Washington and Colorado are the first two states to legalize marijuana. It is a concrete example of how attitudes toward marijuana are starting to change. Making marijuana legal keeps people who…
Not all clients who need help with an addiction are willing or able to take time away from their busy schedules to enter a long-term residential drug and alcohol treatment program. For them, intensive outpatient rehab / intensive outpatient program (IOP) is a reasonable and effective alternative to spending 14, 28, or even additional days away…
There is more than one way to treat clients who want to break free from addiction to drugs and/or alcohol. Since this chronic disease affects a person’s mind, body and soul, it makes sense to adopt a treatment plan that offers holistic treatment options. The addiction has a way of infiltrating every aspect of a…
Since January is Mental Wellness Month, it’s the perfect time to shine a spotlight on the way that mental health issues can have an impact on people who are seeking treatment for drug and alcohol abuse. It makes an already-complicated situation more challenging, but there is help available to clients in this situation to deal…
According to the Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap (CATG) initiative, more than 23.5 million people in America are addicted to drugs and alcohol. This figure works out to about one in every 10 people in the country. The number of people affected by addiction is on the rise, and all of them can benefit from…