Addiction Treatment Blog
How Mindfulness Meditation Helps You With Cravings
Cravings are driven by things that are pleasurable. Food, sexual activity, and substances can all be craved, and fulfilling those desires creates memories in the brain that drive a person to continue engaging in behaviors that satisfy them. Cravings are a natural...
Everything You Need to Know About Ayahuasca
Plants have long been used for a variety of spiritual and medicinal purposes throughout history. In many cultures, plants have been used by healers and are still used to this day in religious practices. Many plants that are used in these practices are psychedelics....
10 Signs Drinking is Affecting Your Life
Alcohol use is often normalized. It can be found in almost any social situation and has become so commonplace that not drinking is sometimes treated as a strange behavior. The way alcohol is viewed has made overconsumption a standard practice and it can be difficult...
The Importance of Managing Your Mental Health After Treatment
Mental health disorders and addiction are often co-occurring, exacerbating symptoms of one another and worsening a person’s overall health. It is not always clear which of the conditions existed prior to the other, but the areas of the brain most significantly...
Treating Chronic Pain Without Opioids is Possible
In the midst of the current opioid epidemic, thousands of people are facing devastating consequences and uncertainty regarding how they can treat chronic pain safely. Initially, the introduction of opioid prescription drugs promised relief from chronic pain without...
How to Manage Your Anxiety Disorder in a Natural Way
Anxiety is a natural response to stressful situations, but there is a fine line between the uncomfortable anxiety that can help guide your actions and the crippling anxiety that may feel impossible to control. Everyone struggles with anxiety at some point, but what...
