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A Guide To Keeping Up Recovery After Leaving Rehab

A Guide To Keeping Up Recovery After Leaving Rehab

11th September 2020

Completing a rehab is a major achievement. However, rehab is just the start of your recovery, as sobriety is a life long recovery process that will take a long time to master. Remaining clean and sober will take a huge amount of commitment and dedication and you’ll need to put into practice everything you’ve learnt

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residential rehab

Residential Rehabilitation vs. Outclient rehabilitation

24th August 2020

When addicts realise they’re powerless in their pursuit to control their addiction, they’ll hopefully come round to the idea that they require professional help. Depending on a client’s funding options, the range of rehabilitation offerings can be vast and confusing. For this reason this post aims to demystify the available rehabilitation options, and give people

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gambling addiction

How to Help a Problem Gambler

19th August 2020

  Compulsive gambling can cause considerable strain on a variety of relationships, particularly between families, friends and colleagues. Problem gambling can in extreme circumstances lead to stealing, lying and cheating in order to conceal and feed gambling addiction. If you found this page it is likely you are currently experiencing problem gambling within your family

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drug addiction

Top 10 Tips to Help Parents of Drug Addict

10th August 2020

It’s every parent’s nightmare to discover their child is addicted to drugs. No matter what steps you took to avoid this situation we feel it true to say no parent is totally immune to this risk. If you find yourself in this situation then know you are not alone. You also need to know that

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Ocean Recovery Survey

[INFOGRAPHIC] Does The Public Trust The Government To Deal With Drug and Alcohol Related Crime?

6th August 2020

Despite COVID-19, Brexit overload, growing concerns about climate change and an abundance of other important global issues dominating the news this past year, many people in Britain still have concerns about the effects drug and alcohol use has on communities throughout the country. As being one of the UK’s leading drug and alcohol treatment centres,

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Man struggling with mental health after taking cocaine

How Alcohol Affects the Brain

4th August 2020

Approximately 3 million people die from alcohol-related causes, representing a staggering 1 in 20 deaths (WHO). Thousands more attend an alcohol rehab centre in order to combat alcohol’s negative health repercussions. In this post we dissect how alcohol consumption affects the human brain. Alcohol is deemed a ‘depressant’ as opposed as a ‘stimulant’, and scientists

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tips for mental health

Tips For Looking After Your Mental Health as we are coming out of The Lockdown

24th July 2020

The impacts of Covid-19 and the accompanying lockdown have been tough on everyone. A national survey by the ONS conucted in May, at the height of the lockdown, found that more than two thirds (69%) of adults in the country reported feeling worried. The most common issue was fear for the future while more than

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What Role Do Parents Play in Addiction Recovery

Offspring Addiction: What Role Do You As A Parent Play In Their Recovery?

23rd July 2020

Parents are identified as supporters, as authoritative figures, as leaders of life. However, in some situations, parents can in fact deter the quality of life of their adolescent and adult children, but what role do parents play in Addiction Recovery? Behaviours are commonly taught. We are also conditioned by our environments, by our associations, by

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Online Shopping Addiction

10 Signs Of An Online Shopping Addiction

23rd July 2020

How often do you shop online? Are you able to make rational purchases of items you actually require? Unfortunately, for a proportion of individuals, this can be extremely difficult to control, down to an online shopping addiction. Although a primary diagnosis of an online shopping addiction is yet to be made, many individuals across the

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Planning and Holding an Intervention

Top 10 Tips on Planning and Holding an Intervention

30th June 2020

Have you been witnessing a loved one or friend suffer through addiction or mental health issues for some time? This can be an extremely tough process for all individuals. Have you already attempted to offer a degree of support and empathy, yet you feel like you’re getting nowhere? This is very common when looking to tackle an addiction.   One of the most

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