Here Are Some Things You May Not Know About Fentanyl

Here Are Some Things You May Not Know About Fentanyl

Okay so, chances are you already know that Fentanyl is highly addictive, and unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 5-years, you know the Fentanyl Epidemic has become a real crisis. You’ve also heard that most of the Fentanyl in the U.S. is now coming from China. I bet you’ve watched the […]

Drug Rehab and Depression

Drug Rehab and Depression

  Addiction can be difficult to understand as it happens for many reasons. Understanding how drug addiction and depression go hand-in-hand can learn how to better support loved ones who are struggling.   Linking Addiction and Depression Many ways exist in how addition and depression coincide. Self-medicating is one way in which people attempt to […]

Step 10: Continuing On

Meditation Therapy Rehab, Opiates, The Villa Treatment Center

Step ten of the twelve steps reads, “continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it”. At this point many people scoff. After enduring the hefty process of steps four through nine- taking inventory, putting one’s guts out on the table, analyzing them, cleaning them up, making amends for them when […]

Sober Living Do’s and Don’ts

Residential treatment is over and it is time to transition. Maybe, residential was never the option and the search is on for sober living during intensive outpatient or partial hospitalization programming. Sober Living is a means of maintaining sobriety and accountability in a home-like setting. However, with the need for sober livings far exceeding government […]

Picking a 12 Step Sponsor

In the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous, the first 12 step group, the idea of sponsorship didn’t quite look as it did today. Before millions of people all over the globe began following the 12 steps, only a few dozen in midwest America were using the spiritual program to get sober. When a new man, […]