Addiction Recovery Articles

Holidays are often a challenging time for people in recovery who are trying to stay sober. Increased events comes with increased opportunity to be in situations where alcohol is easily accessible. Halloween is a perfect example of this. It’s the first widely celebrated holiday to kick off a series of Fall and Winter events that often center around alcohol.

This September marks the 30th anniversary of National Recovery Month, put on by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). National Recovery Month is an annual nationwide event created to raise awareness surrounding treatment for substance abuse and other mental health disorders.

For the 15.1 million Americans who struggle with Alcohol Use Disorder every year, the most difficult part of the recovery journey is not just finding the path to sobriety… it’s staying on it. During the first year of recovery, it’s recommended that individuals seek some sort of continued care rather than attempt to navigate the unfamiliar terrain of recovery alone.

College is the quintessential springboard from the awkward and insecure phases of adolescence into the new, uncharted territories of young adulthood. It’s often the cornerstone of new friendships, long nights spent studying, and decorating your first apartment.And, of course, college isn’t without its dark underside.

Whether it’s environmental, genetic, lifestyle-related or all three, the gravitational pull individuals may feel toward alcohol can start as a means to “feel good” and lead to a dependence on the substance in order to feel normal. While society often promotes drinking in social situations, featuring it in television, movies, music and more, there is a stigma attached to Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD).

Treatment providers in the addiction recovery field have one unifying goal: help clients attain and maintain sobriety. One way to achieve this goal and help clients overcome Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is through alcohol monitoring. As the leader in remote alcohol monitoring technology, Soberlink has helped treatment providers enhance clients’ recovery journeys for nearly a decade.

Communication is the key to all successful relationships. It is the foundation on which trust, the cornerstone of relationships, is built. In a client-provider relationship, this trust is known as the therapeutic alliance, which helps patients know the treatment provider has their best interest at heart.

One message you may regularly tell your clients or anyone else recovering from addiction is to take things one day at a time. It is one thing to say this, but it is another thing to accept this approach and put it into practice. The difficulty of putting this attitude into practice becomes apparent the moment someone experiences a relapse.

For many years, addiction treatment has been more of a one-track approach, majorly focusing on the building of the individual’s moral strength and assisting them to be able to say, “No” to the substance they are abusing. Although the 12-Step Program has been highly successful at helping millions of people achieve and maintain sobriety through age-old concepts.

An estimated 22 million people in the U.S. are in recovery from alcohol and other drug addictions, each on a recovery path uniquely their own. As we journey through the Digital Age where 62.9% of the world populationhas a cell phone, it’s becoming increasingly inevitable that Telehealth – the use of technologies to provide care over a distance – will be incorporated into recovery treatment programs.