Texas Addiction Recovery Blog
Help Yourself
If you’ve spent time in a drug or alcohol rehab facility, you received a great deal of help. Even after you leave this kind of facility, there’s a good chance that you will still receive a lot of help. This help could include sobriety meetings, individual therapy,...
Fighting Your Triggers
Triggers. The very word hints at guns, at violence. That makes it an appropriate word to use when discussing substance use disorder. That’s because substance use disorder is violent. Like physical violence, substance use disorder can dramatically change a person’s...
Drawing and Meditating Your Way to Recovery
Do you know what a Zentangle is? Don’t worry if you don’t know—I didn’t know about it myself until just a few minutes ago. The weird thing is, you and I have probably been creating Zentangles for years. It turns out that Zentangles are abstract patterns that you can...
Living a Better Life
Live your best life. 10 tips for living a better life. How to improve your life. We’re always seeing articles and news stories about how to live a better life. It seems we all want better lives, or at least magazine editors and news producer think we want them. If...
Using Drugs to Fight Drug Abuse
Did you know that rehab centers use drugs to treat drug addiction? This concept sounds weird at first, but when you think about it a little, it makes a lot of sense. Doctors and medical professionals at rehab facilities prescribe drugs such as methadone and Suboxone...
Abstinence, Sobriety, and Recovery
Abstinence. It’s a word you often hear in recovery circles. It’s funny, but I’ve always heard it in terms of sex and eating. It must be a product of my religious education as a kid. In those religious teachings, abstaining from sex means not having sex. Abstaining...
Understanding Addicts
We don’t know someone until we walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, according to that old phrase. This phrase is partially true with addiction. We don’t exactly know what it’s like to abuse drugs or alcohol unless we’ve done those things ourselves. But that doesn’t...
Focus in Recovery
People experiencing addiction and recovery might have difficulty with both. Addiction and recovery can also be difficult for their friends and family members. Addiction causes a ripple effect that affects practically every aspect of a person’s life. Substance use...
Committing to Recovery
Proper care can do so much to help treat drug and alcohol abuse. Not everyone approaches this care 100% willingly, however. Some people enter rehab because they’ve overdosed or experienced another serious medical condition related to alcohol and drug abuse. These...
Making Choices
One of the cool things about recovering from drug and alcohol abuse is that we’re able to make choices again. One of the scary parts of recovery is that we’re able to make choices again. Choice and addiction don’t normally seem to go together. If we’re abusing...