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Matthew Perry Converts His Malibu Home into a Sober Living Center for Men

Matthew Perry’s contribution to the world didn’t end with the conclusion of the popular sitcom Friends. He is now extending his talents into the arena of addiction recovery. After his own battle with addiction, Perry has decided to team up with interventionist and addiction specialist Earl Hightower to transform his Malibu home into a place for men to seek addiction services. Helping men recover from substance abuse is Perry’s dream, and

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Dual Diagnosis Drug Treatment

Is It Drugs or Mental Illness?

Often times the effects of drugs are very similar to the symptoms of mental illness and vice versa. It can be very difficult to tell if someone is suffering from addiction or a mental illness. Here are some things to be aware of if you are concerned for the health of a loved one. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) asserts that the abuse of certain substances can lead

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Marijuana Use Increases Chances of Kids Becoming College Drop Outs

Posted by Steps to Recovery on March 26, 2013 When your kids were in high school or even getting ready to go to college, did you talk with them about marijuana? Many young people feel marijuana use is pretty harmless, but studies show that marijuana use in college may lead to dramatically higher drop out rates. Using marijuana in college may increase the risk of leaving school, a new study

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4 Important Things About Relapse

Posted by Steps to Recovery on March 22, 2013 When you or a loved one are in recovery, a relapse can feel like the end of the world. It can bring up so many emotions; disappointment, anger, shame, fear and failure to name a few of the things people feel when they relapse. Here are 5 important things about relapse to remember that may help prevent it from happening or

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Four Main Triggers for Relapse in Recovery

For the addicted person, relapse in recovery is not unusual. Everyone has triggers that may create a situation in which a person has a moment of weakness. Everyone’s triggers and reactions are different, so not each addicted individual may have the same reaction to these things as another, which makes relapse difficult to predict based on the occurrence of these triggers alone. But it’s worth being aware of the main things that

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Family Members of Addicts

Six Common Roles of the Family Members of Addicts

Posted by Steps to Recovery on February 26, 2013 When a family is impacted by the addiction of one of it’s members, everyone’s life changes. In fact, often times the family members take on roles that they don’t even necessarily realize they are playing out in relation to the addict. The following are six common roles that may be played by family members of addicts whose lives have been impacted by

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Top 10 Addiction Support Sites

Turn to Help for Opioid Addiction

Opiate dependence is a growing problem in the United States, as not only is heroin use on the increase, but more people are becoming addicted to opiates commonly prescribed for pain relief. For instance, the results of the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health not only show that around 517,000 people suffer from heroin dependency, but close to 1.9 million are also dependent on prescription painkillers(1). Addiction

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Reasons to Quit Meth

By Steps to Recovery on December 2, 2012 Are you a meth user or addict? It’s definitely a drug that demands you do whatever you can to quit. It might seem like a lot of fun or a good high. Maybe it seems like a great way to lose some weight or have extra energy to get a lot of stuff done. But meth effects on your life can be dangerous,

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Vaccinations for Recovery?

By Steps to Recovery on November 11, 2012 Cocaine vaccinations, methamphetamine vaccinations, even a nicotine vaccination. All of this in the name of recovery. It’s a novel idea, but is it time and money spent in vain? Does something like this actually detract from the value of the hard work of recovery? Isn’t there something extremely valuable to be learned from working hard to defeat the urge to use and learning to

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Top 5 Ways to CURE Your Addiction and Alcoholism

By Steps to Recovery, Oct. 12, 2012 1) Don’t buy in to promises that anyone can CURE your addiction. Books like “The Addiction and Alcoholism Cure” by Chris Prentiss and Passages Malibu are not reality based, they are simply a gimmick to get people into their overpriced, non 12 step based treatment facility. 2) Buy in to 12 step programs, don’t judge them because they haven’t worked for you in the past. The reason people

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