alcohol and drugs treatment

Learning to say no can be a difficult journey.  In addiction and drug rehab it is a vitally important one.  Drug and alcohol refusal skills are something that might want to be practiced each and every day you are in rehab.  Would it not be wonderful if by the time you left rehab, that if [...] More Info...  

Many of us have life in reverse.  We spend far too long deciding what to do.  Followed by far to little montoring after the decision.  Nobody has a crystal ball.  Nobody can predict the future.  At the very best maybe you can be right 60% of the time, but for most of us, it is [...] More Info...  

When things do not turn out how we would like, often we want to remove our own responsibility in the situation.  When asked why something went wrong we respond in this manner.  I don’t know it just happened.  We are not actively saying it was not our fault.  We are just implying it.  The truth [...] More Info...  

We always get asked about how much time is the right length of stay in a drug rehab center?   How do you arrive at the right numbers of days?  Is there a really accurate way to judge the severity of the addiction?  Does a more severe addiction always require a longer stay? There are two things [...] More Info...  

Our relapse prevention workbook, is proving very popular.  The comments from clients using it have been overwhelming positive.   Several have commented that is was the best single thing, that had helped their journey past addiction.  If you would like to have the first two chapters Free, it is available on the site www.sobermart.com .  The [...] More Info...  

Love is something we all hope to feel and enjoy. Many times the love we feel with our immediate family and friends is simply the best part of our lives. In addiction however the strength and definition of love is pushed to the limit of human endurance and beyond. [...] More Info...  

Learning to control stress and emotions are paramount to sobriety.  One of the key skills in this journey is to learn what, are appropriate levels of concern, and what are not.   The world will always judge us.  Some of the input we receive will be positive, some will not.  Figuring out what is valid and [...] More Info...  

Everybody wants to be liked and appreciated. I think we all have a need to feel wanted. Unfortunately this need or craving does not serve anyone well who is working in the drug and alcohol rehab field. Addiction is a condition of doing exactly what somebody wants in the moment regardless of [...] More Info...  

There are solutions to every problem. We may not like the solution, but they are there. Drug rehab will require us to come up with these solutions. We all have an idea of how we would like things to work out. We want it all. In drug rehab most people [...] More Info...  

Always on the lookout for information about drug and alcohol rehab centers, I watched a show about a different type of rehab the other night.  The place was call Brookhaven and it is in New York.  It is one of the very few places that take and treat very, very obese.  In many ways a [...] More Info...  

One reason why drug and alcohol rehab centers are so much more successful than trying to quit on your own has purely to do with availability.  I think everyone who has an e-mail address has been spamed with stuff offering to sell you drugs.  I have deleted these by the hour before the wonderful advent of spam [...] More Info...  

We get referral request for drug and alcohol rehab centers everyday.  Many requests.  At least 50% of the calls get start out like do you know of a good rehab in San Antonio?  Or do you know of a good rehab in Billings?  Do you know of a good rehab in Tampa?  You get the [...] More Info...  

Most drug and alcohol rehab programs have a time to get up.  The most simple method to prevent relapse is to have structure in your day.  The key to structure is that is has to be automatic.  The axiom is that if you have to think about it…….it is not structure.  So how do you [...] More Info...  

Everyone knows going into a drug and alcohol rehab center that they need to make changes in their life.  Most of us know where a lot of changes have to be made.  Sometimes we cannot see everything that needs improvement.  So many times is it easy to see the mistakes of others and difficult to [...] More Info...  

Much is made in business of the 80/20 rule.  If you haven't heard of it before, this rule brings out the concept that 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers.  Interestly enough 80% of your problems come from 20% of your customers as well.  If you are lucky and good it won't [...] More Info...  

What is the main reason people refuse to enter a drug and alcohol rehab center?  Once they are at a rehab center what is the main reason clients leave and do not succeed?  More often than not it is fear.  Before coming to a rehab the fear of the discomfort of withdrawl and drug detox [...] More Info...  

After a client left a drug and alcohol rehab center they e-mailed in some comments.  One that I found particularily interesting was that in the time that was spent in drug rehab they were very happy to have never been referred to as an addict the whole time they were in the program.  They were pleased [...] More Info...  

Most drug and alcohol rehab centers have a busy schedule for the clients.  As in all things in life, some say it is too busy, some say it is too slow.  The time scheduled for learning and activities has to be sufficient to provide the structure required to get through the tough first days.  Without [...] More Info...  

When attending an alcohol and drug rehab center sometimes clients have trouble asking for what they really want.  I'm not talking about a different type of orange juice.  Often people who arrive at a drug and alcohol rehab program have difficulty feeling they are worthy of what they want.  They have watered down their dreams.  [...] More Info...  

In a drug and alcohol rehab program things or behaviors from the past always surface.  Many of them are things that we are not proud of.  Often this can lead to feeling of guilt.  There is nothing evil or cruel about guilt.  It is a guide post to remind us to change.  If you are [...] More Info...