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Does Your Loved One Need a Treatment Program?

Few people care to admit that drugs and alcohol have impacted their life in such a way that treatment is necessary. But in reality, the decision to choose to do something about your problem is not...

What Is Dual Diagnosis? What Does This Refer to in a Treatment Program?

Dual diagnosis means the presence of both mental illness and substance abuse in an individual. Dual diagnosis can be a particularly challenging condition due to the fact that persons suffering from...

What is Addiction: The Negative Impact on Your Life

Drugs and alcohol are no respecters of class, race, religion, or socioeconomic status. They affect people from all walks of life, and the pattern of addiction can develop in anyone’s life...

Interview with the Clinical Director of EXIS, Dr. Elena Bagourdi Ph.D

Tell us about EXIS: EXIS is a dual diagnosis, treatment center that specializes in treating mental health disorders, such as depression and anxiety, as well as trauma and addictions issues. We utilize...

When Procrastination Keeps You from Recovery

Are you stalling? Unhinged by all of life’s little distractions and cannot seem to get ahead? Are you wanting to get sober but thinking not yet, another day, if and when, and later, maybe one day?...

Heavily Meditated: A Mindfulness Addiction that’s Free

Meditation isn’t something we usually jump for joy about. The idea of sitting still with our inner thoughts, is not only something we are not typically taught in school, but it can be a real...

Addiction: Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life

We’ve heard it time and time again. Our thoughts and fundamental belief systems create our ultimate reality. Thoughts become things. Believing in something is exactly what it sounds like; Our...

Empowered or Powerless: The Importance of Perspective in Recovery

For about a century addiction has been seen as a disease within the neurological pathways of the brain.Since the 1950s organizations such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous have been...

Learning How to Say YES, and When to Say NO!

Just say No! Isn’t that the general rule? We’ve heard time and time again. Well I’vethought long and hard about it and I’m here to suggest an addendum to the timelessstatement...

Final rule expanding access to medication-assisted treatment

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) detailed several new actions that we are taking to address the country’s opioid crisis. One of these actions was publishing the final...