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How To Get Off Narcotics Safely

How Long Does It Take Narcotics To Wear Off As maligned as prescription painkillers are in recent years, using these opioids is still the most effective method for managing acute, short-term pain following an injury or surgery. The pain medications…

Alcoholism Family Support and Treatment Options

Alcohol, Detox, Family, Recovery, Rehab

Alcoholism is, indeed, a family disease. Anyone caught up in the immediate orbit of the alcoholic will be drawn into the chaos and pain, as there is no way to separate from the overall effects of the alcoholism. These effects run far and deep,…

Adderall Addiction Signs and Detox Options

Detox, Recovery, Rehab, Stimulants

Signs of Adderall Addiction Adderall is a prescription stimulant that is typically prescribed for individuals diagnosed with ADHD or narcolepsy. For many years now, Adderall has also found its way into the hands of people who do not necessarily…

Treatment Options for a High Functioning Alcoholic

Alcohol, Detox, Recovery, Rehab

You may know a high functioning alcoholic and secretly wonder how they manage to pull it off—holding down and excelling at a high-level professional position while abusing alcohol. It seems to defy the reality that someone could be capable…

Stress Overload and Self Medicating with Alcohol

Alcohol, Detox, Recovery, Rehab

Why Self-Medicating with Alcohol is Harmful Alcohol is a depressant. That means that an alcoholic beverage provides a nice, warm, mellow feeling because it depresses the central nervous system. Used judiciously as an occasional relaxation tool,…

Alcohol Detox What to Expect

Alcohol, Detox

What to Expect During Alcohol Detox? Chances are if you have landed on this blog you are seriously considering entering a program for the treatment of an alcohol use disorder. By this point, there may be a litany of negative consequences piling…

How Long Does it Take to Detox from Alcohol

Alcohol, Detox, Recovery

Alcohol detoxification involves the process of ridding the body of all residual toxins associated with ethanol, the chemical byproduct associated with alcoholic beverages. Alcohol detox can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, depending…

Amino Acid Therapy for Alcoholism

Alcohol, Alcoholism, Detox

Why Are Amino Acids Important in Recovery? Being treated for alcohol use disorder covers many different realms, including restoring physical health. By the time someone seeks addiction treatment for alcoholism, their health may be significantly…

Common Excuses Alcoholics Make

Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blog, Detox, Recovery, Rehab

Excuses Used By Alcoholics Funny how those excuses we used so often in childhood can become part of the alcoholic’s daily vernacular in adulthood. Remember how we insisted that our bad behavior was a result of some slight we’d suffered-…

5 Features of an Executive Orange County Detox

Blog, Detox, Recovery, Rehab

Orange County Detox Center When we picture what a successful individual looks like we may conjure up an image of someone who is in total control of their life. After all, a person doesn’t rise too high professional stature without having…

Executive 7 Day Alcohol Detox

Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blog, Detox, Recovery, Rehab

Detox, oh that dreaded word! So dreaded, in fact, that many who are in desperate need of addiction treatment will avoid getting help just to avoid going through detox. This is understandable, as alcohol detox is known for being highly unpleasant—even…

Is a 3 Day Opiate Detox Possible?

Detox, opiates, Recovery

Remember when we all thought 3G Internet was lightning fast? Now 4G feels like a tortoise sauntering slowly toward the finish line. We used to have to wait half an hour for a pizza, but these days restaurants can crank out a pizza in 10…

Ultra Rapid Detox versus Detox

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We are a society of folks who place a high value on time. We like things to happen at lightning speeds, demanding ever more expedient ways to accomplish tasks in everyday life. When it comes to breaking free from the cycle of addiction,…