When Recovery From Substance Abuse Or Alcoholism Can Be Challenging The holiday season can present all kinds of temptations and triggers for those who are recovering from substance abuse or alcoholism. As others are celebrating with alcoholic beverages or illegal narcotics at holiday parties or family get-togethers, it can be difficult for someone recovering from [...]
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‘Tis The Season
Posted on Dec 24 , 2011 in Blog
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This Week’s Sacramento News And Review
Posted on Dec 14 , 2011 in Blog
Sacramento Addiction Treatment and Recovery Sacramento News & Review (SN & R) has been running a special section for the past several weeks on Sacrament addiction treatment and recovery in the Sacramento community. Pathways Recovery appreciates the support that SN & R has provided the recovering community in the area by shining a light on [...]
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ESPN Films-The Todd Marinovich Project
Posted on Dec 11 , 2011 in Blog
See it on ESPN, or click on this link: http://espn.go.com/espn/espnfilms/story/_/id/7266112/marinovich-project It covers the story of a man that goes from star athlete, to an addict who has lost everything, and back to a man living a life without the madness of drug addiction, alcoholism, and stardom. Related Blogs
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After Your Stay
Posted on Nov 20 , 2011 in Blog
In A Drug And Alcohol Treatment Program So you have just left a drug and alcohol treatment program, and now you’re going home back to the same environment where all of the triggers existed that got you into the drug and alcohol treatment program in the first place. Whether you spent a week in a [...]
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The Side Effects of Methadone Maintenance
Posted on Oct 26 , 2011 in Blog
And Methadone Detox In addition to being developed as a powerful pain reliever, Methadone has also been promoted as a substitute for heroin. In fact, Methadone is sometimes called synthetic or man-made heroin, and its use as a substitute for heroin in Methadone maintenance programs was intended to curtail the illegal drug trade of real [...]
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Social Model Opiate Detox
Posted on Oct 13 , 2011 in Blog
A Therapeutic Approach To Opiate Detox For the 10% of the general population thought to regularly use opiates, many of them will become physically dependent on opiates-AKA addicted. So, when they decide to get clean and rid their body of opiates they must go through what is commonly referred to as “opiate detox”. For someone [...]
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Recognizing And Preventing The Problem
Posted on Oct 01 , 2011 in Blog
Prescription Drug Abuse The risks for addiction to prescription drugs increase when the drugs are used in ways other than for those prescribed. Healthcare providers, primary care physicians, and pharmacists, as well as patients themselves, all can play a role in identifying and preventing prescription drug abuse. Physicians. Because about 70 percent of Americans (approximately [...]