August 9, 2021
When is an Intervention necessary?
Interventions are something that every drug addict or alcoholic must have at some point. To understand when a professional, organized intervention is...
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Treatment Corner: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, DBT was developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dr. Linehan developed DBT in response to th...
Read MoreDecember 11, 2020
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-Informed CareThere was a time when trauma was seen as something experienced by relatively few people, and events and circumstances that are now...
Read MoreDecember 9, 2020
The Pandemic and the Opioid Crisis
The Opioid Epidemic, the CDC (June 2021) says, can be broken into 3 waves: The first, beginning in the late 1990s when the number of prescriptions for...
Read MoreDecember 9, 2020
The Body in Recovery Part I
Over the course of the next 3 blog posts, we’ll be exploring the body. We’ll begin this week by touching on the consequences of long-term substance ab...
Read MoreDecember 9, 2020
The Body in Recovery Part II: Somatic Interventions
Welcome back to our Body Talk. We began in our last post by touching on the consequences of long-term substance abuse and important body-oriented cons...
Read MoreSeptember 1, 2020
Dual Diagnosis: When Substance Use Disorders and Mental Illness Collide
Both substance use disorders and mental illnesses are serious health issues that impact millions of people in the United States. Individually, substa...
Read MoreApril 14, 2020
Collective Trauma: The Triggering Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Trauma is a loaded word, and we can talk about it in several different contexts, but for the next few minutes, let’s talk about trauma as it relates t...
Read MoreApril 7, 2020
The Risk of Overstimulation While Practicing Social Distancing
In our last post, we talked about the importance of staying connected even as we started moving toward social distancing measures. Time has passed, a...
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