Drug & Alcohol Rehab Blog
Disclosing Your Past Substance Abuse to Friends
Living with the stigma of having past substance abuse can be difficult when you’re in a new stage of life and trying to build new friendships and start a new job. You may be wondering if you should even disclose your past substance abuse at all. You may feel ashamed...
Tips for Avoiding Temptation Over the Holidays
While the holidays are supposed to be a joyous time for family get-togethers and celebrations, it can be a difficult time if you’re recovering from drug or alcohol addiction treatment. With alcohol being easily accessible, you may be tempted to have a drink or two....
Will I Make New Friends While in Rehab?
Human beings are highly social creatures who rely on companionship and cooperation to survive. This is truer than ever when people are going through a tough time, such as during rehab and addiction treatment. But many people wonder how hard it is to make new friends...
Tips for Avoiding the Prescription Drug Abuse Trap After a Surgery
Post-surgery pain management is an important part of the recovery process. Alleviating the pain allows your body to relax and helps you sleep, and both of these are integral for proper healing. Unfortunately, addiction can be an unintended side-effect of many...
Why ‘Just One Drink’ Can Derail Your Recovery in West Palm Beach
For many people, the idea of getting together with friends and having a single drink isn't unreasonable. But for a recovering alcoholic who has just finished rehab, even just one drink is enough to start the cycle of addiction all over again. When you're...
How Can I Prevent My Teen From Experimenting with Drugs?
As parents, one of the hardest things you'll have to face is watching your teens grow up and make decisions for themselves. This is particularly difficult when it comes to experimenting with drugs, but you have to trust that you’ve done a good job of equipping your...
Five Ways Effective Treatment Improves a Drug Addict’s Quality of Life
For an addict, any rehab is better than no rehab, but in order to create a situation where our friends and family have a positive experience that leads to positive outcomes and sobriety, whatever program you choose must be effective. Our friends and family are afraid...
Common Scenarios that Can Lead to Prescription Opiate Abuse
Opiates are used in pain medication, and generally, a medical doctor prescribes them for people who have some type of physical problem that is causing intense pain. Opiates come from the poppy plant and are an intense painkiller. When the human body can’t produce...
Life After Rehab: Tips for Supporting Your Spouse
Addition maybe a singular problem for the user, but the fallout is greatest in the family that surrounds them. Whether it is abusive behavior directed at family members, failing to meet responsibilities like hold down a job or misdirecting family funds to a drug...
Is Marijuana Really a Gateway to More Serious Drug Use?
Certainly, when many addicts recount their life stories, drug use, specifically marijuana is the first stop on a long road of abuse. There is a false correlation when we compare marijuana usage with other types of drugs. Marijuana drug usage 1. The National Institute...
Beachside Rehab Special Event: Give Recovery a Chance Everyday
Beachside Rehab is pleased to host the event, Give Recovery a Chance Everyday on November 12th. This event comes just before the holiday season, a time while expected to be joyful, is often a stressful and difficult time for people struggling with addiction problems...
Common Relapse Triggers After Rehab
You’ve entered a rehab facility and made the journey through the hell of your addiction and come out the other side clean and sober. Then the next stage of your recovery begins, you develop a support network, start a healthy diet, you remove influences or change...