Addiction & Treatment Blog Articles

What Happens an After Intervention

The intervention is often the first, and hardest, step in the addiction recovery process. It’s the moment where everything comes to a head, where family...

Structured Intervention vs. Staging an Ultimatum

If you’ve been living with someone who’s struggling with addiction, you already know how much it changes the home. We often say that drug addiction...

Virtual Intervention vs. In-Person Treatment

Substance use disorder (SUD) continues to affect communities across the country. Recent surveys by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) found that...

Addiction Intervention Alternatives

If you or someone you know is struggling with a substance use disorder (SUD), you’ve likely been through a situation in the past where you...

CRAFT Method vs. Traditional Intervention

When one of your family members is struggling with addiction, every conversation can feel loaded. For decades, intervention methods always involved tense gatherings in a...

When Family Therapy Is Better

Professional intervention can literally save the lives of people struggling with addiction. The truth remains that such intervention, when applied properly and followed up by...

Intervention Planning

Fact: Nearly 21 million Americans struggle with at least one addiction, yet only 10% receive treatment. If someone you love is battling substance use, waiting...

Intervention Strategies

Movies have created an image of the typical addiction intervention, with loved ones sitting in a circle and using “I” statements to share feelings. Although...

Failed Interventions

According to NSDUH surveys, nearly 49 million Americans aged 12 and above struggled with a substance use disorder (SUD) in 2024 . About 29 million...

Intervention Costs

When a family faces the crisis of a loved one’s struggle with addiction, practical questions about how to help often collide with deep emotional fear....

Nifaliophobia

To those who haven’t struggled with substance use disorder (SUD), learning about someone’s fear of being sober may seem odd at first—even unreasonable. After all,...

Bio Bed Therapy

Fact: More than three-quarters of American adults report symptoms of stress, including headaches, fatigue, and feelings of depression. While traditional talk therapy and medication help...

Dirty Meth

Methamphetamine is a type of stimulant drug that affects the central nervous system. Classified as a Schedule II controlled substance by the US Drug Enforcement...

Meth Crackback

When people talk about the dangers of methamphetamine, they mean the drug itself. However, the reality is that crystal meth never comes in a pure...

Fake Meth

Reality check: the drug supply today is not what it used to be. Many people who think they’re buying pure meth are instead getting a...

Beer and Zoloft

If you’re taking Zoloft and wondering whether having a beer is safe, you’re not alone. This is one of the most common questions people ask...

Strips Medicine

Medicine doesn’t always come in bottles or blister packs filled with pills. Over the past several years, a shift has been happening in how some...

Hippie Tripping

For years, psychedelic mushrooms have been seen as a relatively safe recreational drug. Would combining it with a hard drug like MDMA or ecstasy tone...