Types Of Substance Abuse Treatment Substance abuse disorder is a serious mental illness characterized by an inability to control one’s drug and alcohol use. Untreated substance addiction can interfere with an individual’s ability to care for themselves and to lead a productive, healthy life as well as lead to irreversible health consequences or even death. […]
What Is An Intensive Outpatient Program? If you are new to the world of substance abuse but are currently considering seeking addiction treatment for yourself or one of your family members, you may be be hearing for the first time about something called intensive outpatient programs. While residential treatment programs, which require patients to stay […]
Dealing with a loved one’s addiction is never easy. Family members of someone with an addiction often have the difficult task of convincing their family member to seek treatment for their addictive behavior, a process that can be incredibly difficult because the person struggling may be reluctant to accept that help. However, though substance use […]
Assessing Effectiveness in Delray Beach, FL Treatment Centers Finding a Delray Beach, Florida rehab dedicated to to offering the best addiction treatment services possible isn’t always easy. Though drug or alcohol addiction treatment programs are incredibly abundant in the area, seeking treatment should also involve thorough research into any substance abuse treatment facility you may […]
One of the reasons that our intensive treatment program takes the Twelve Steps as one of its foundational aspects is because there is so much empirical evidence for the utility of twelve step support groups to aid in recovery. Membership in Alcoholics Anonymous has been shown by multiple studies to be more effective than formal […]
The decision to seek intensive treatment for a substance abuse problem is not often an easy one to make, due to factors like the social stigma that surrounds addiction, the internal sense of guilt and shame that can come with addiction issues, and practical and financial considerations that can make committing to a treatment program […]
What Are The “Twelve Steps?” One of the oldest, most respected, and most tried and true approaches to addiction recovery are the Twelve Steps, which we use as a central tenet of our treatment program here at Delray Beach IOP. The twelve steps originated in 1935, when they were developed and codified in the “Big […]
As our past blog posts have enumerated, addiction is an incredibly complex disease, one that has no straightforward “cure.” However, it is a disease that can go into a robust, lasting remission if a person dedicates themselves wholeheartedly to recovery and receives the appropriate physical and psychological treatment. But while treatment creates a solid foundation […]
How long a patient stays in addiction treatment is highly variable, depending on the severity of their substance abuse problem, what level of care they require in their treatment, the strength of their motivation to recover, their individual mental and physical health needs, their personal and professional obligations, how long they have been using what […]
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