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alcohol and sexual assault
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How to Survive the Holidays Without Losing Your Progress: A Clinician’s Guide to Restarting an Intensive Outpatient Program
The holidays aren’t always warm. Sometimes they’re sharp. If you’ve stepped away from treatment—ghosted your IOP, dropped out mid-way, or just faded slowly out of group—this time of year might…
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I Was the High-Functioning One… Until I Realized an Intensive Outpatient Program Was the Only Thing I Wasn’t Managing
There’s a particular kind of denial that looks like success. Mine wore a tailored suit, had a daily planner full of meetings, and ran six miles before 7 a.m. I…
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The Day You Slipped Doesn’t Define You: How Inpatient Drug Rehab Supports Alumni After a Setback
There’s a moment after a relapse that’s hard to describe—quiet but deafening. You might be sitting alone, staring at your phone. The high is gone, the spiral stopped, and now…
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When the Holidays Don’t Feel Merry: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Some families count down to the holidays with joy. Others count down with dread. If you’re a parent of a young adult in crisis, the glitter and music and pressure…
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Starting Medication Felt Like Losing Control. Dual Diagnosis Treatment Helped Me Take It Back
I didn’t want a diagnosis. I definitely didn’t want a pill. At the time, taking medication felt like giving up. Like letting something else—not me—drive my brain. I’d always prided…
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Does Treatment Help With the Nights That Feel the Emptiest? Alcohol Rehab Center FAQs for the Newly Sober
There’s a quiet that hits differently in early sobriety. It’s not just the absence of alcohol—it’s the space where noise used to live. The rituals, the distractions, the parties, the…
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You Can’t Love Them Sober — But an Alcohol Rehab Center Can Help Them Get There
You love them. That’s never been the problem. The problem is what alcohol has done to the person you love—and what it’s doing to you. You’ve seen glimpses of who…
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What Happens Inside an Alcohol Rehab Center — and How It Helps Families Heal Too
There’s a kind of heartbreak that doesn’t always look like heartbreak. It looks like sitting y your phone at 2 a.m., wondering if your child is okay. It looks like…
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10 Invisible Struggles Young Sober People Face — And How an Alcohol Rehab Center Helps You Beat Them
You quit drinking before most people even saw a problem. Maybe you hit a wall early. Maybe you just didn’t like who you were becoming. Either way, you made a…
