Yoga is a very powerful tool for those in addiction recovery. This is why we offer Yoga as a part of our program for our patients. It can be so useful to improve overall health and well-being. If you have been in drug rehab or alcohol rehab before, this might be a fairly new concept…
Vivitrol: The Recovery Aid You’ve Been Looking For Vivitrol treatment is now available for addiction recovery at AspenRidge Recovery. For people who suffer with drug addiction or alcoholism, their conditions are often ongoing. Addiction is a disease that is incredibly difficult to overcome on your own. Quite often, people will attempt to stop using alone before…
How to Intervene on an Alcoholic Families of alcoholics often wonder how they should properly intervene. What many families don’t realize is that alcoholism is actually a disease in need of treatment. Although they mean well, they often go about trying to get their loved ones into treatment in the wrong way. You might be in…
Top 10 Universities in Colorado Where Binge Drinking is a BIG Problem For some of the top universities in Colorado, binge drinking has become a serious issue. The college years are known to be the best times of your life. This may be – at least in part – because it’s the time when the…
The definition of sobriety is often misused or used to mean many different things. To some, it means abstinence from all substances. To others, it means avoiding their substance of choice, such as alcohol. By definition, however, it means “[…] the state of being sober, which can mean either not intoxicated or being solemn.” As…
Ever since Alcoholics Anonymous started more than eighty years ago, the recovery culture has grown and expanded into a global movement that addresses a wide variety of problems. People have used their simple formula—namely, the 12 steps and the tradition of openness and honesty—to reclaim their lives. Such a profound change in behavior requires an…
If you are a long-time drinker or drug user, you may be in that twilight stage of indecision between getting clean and continuing on the path you’re on. Using isn’t as fun as it used to be—it’s starting to catch up with you—but you dread what life would be like without it. Some of the…
In traditional rehab, 30 days was once the standard. Unfortunately, this had little to do with medical science; it was an arbitrary limit placed by insurance companies on how long they would pay for treatment. And, because the human mind naturally favors quick solutions that involve a minimum amount of pain, the number stuck. Studies…
It’s important to recognize that the various forms of treatment that are used in alcohol and drug rehab centers have a lot of value in the lives of the people they touch. 12 Step Programs have been crucial to the recovery of so many, and the Serenity Prayer has given strength and courage to those…
It’s always interesting to read patients’ stories about how they overcame their addictions, and this one truly stands out. One patient shares his story about how alcoholism threatened to take over his life until he made a choice to recover from this dangerous addiction. The Despair of Alcoholism It’s hard to understand what it feels…