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How to Navigate Social Situations When Living Sober

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Navigating social gatherings can be a challenge when living sober, particularly during the early stages of your recovery. This is when you are rewiring your brain in numerous ways, including as it relates to its reward centers, and creating a…

Support Systems for Recovering Drug Addicts

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Support systems are essential in all areas of our lives. As many of us feel that we can succeed on our own, the truth is that, in nearly all cases, we need help, especially for those recovering from drug addiction.…

The Importance of Aftercare and Continued Support in Addiction Recovery

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Right now, throughout the United States, there are millions of people who are struggling with drug abuse and addiction. While seeking addiction recovery is an absolute necessity to get you started on your path of sobriety, it’s only one part…

Coping With Anxiety in Addiction Recovery

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

While in addiction recovery, our locale’s safe and welcoming atmosphere and surrounding beauty will most likely have a relaxing effect on you while in and help reduce your anxiety as compared to what it otherwise would have been, it is…

How is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Beneficial in Treatment?

The Benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Addiction Treatment

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a form of psychotherapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps addiction specialists implement strategies for improving treatment response. This type of therapy uses incentives to provide positive reinforcement. For example, an individual will receive some type of reward…

Relapse Prevention: Understanding and Avoiding Triggers

How to Prevent Relapse by Avoiding Triggers

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Addiction interferes with the way the brain functions to control vital organs. Addiction changes all aspects of a person’s life including relationships and responsibilities and can lead to severe mental and physical health complications or early death. The euphoric effects…

Why Your Loved One Might be Reluctant to Seek Treatment

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Addiction puts a person at risk for life-threatening health complications. Substance use disorders and addiction cause brain damage, liver failure, nerve damage, heart attack, overdose, and early death. Mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, or paranoia develop from substance…

How to Approach a Friend about Their Addiction

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

If you are concerned about a friend’s addiction, you might find it difficult to approach them about the issue. When you are concerned about a loved one’s addiction, that person may not think they have a problem. It can be…

The Danger of Alcohol-Induced Blackouts

Created By: Cypress Lake Recovery Team

Blackouts were once associated with alcoholism but can happen when a person drinks a lot of alcohol too fast. Blackouts cause long-term damage. High levels of alcohol impair the part of the brain that forms new memories. A blackout is…

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