Category: Sober living

If you’re taking opioids it’s also a good idea to have a naloxone kit on hand. Naloxone is available in all 50 states, usually without a prescription. There are FDA-approved meds that can help treat your OUD, manage withdrawal symptoms, sustain recovery, and prevent relapse. They’re called medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and include buprenorphine, methadone, and…

Residents pay rent to live there at a value similar to renting privately in the local area. As individuals pay rent and expenses, there is generally no time limit on how long they can stay. The facilities are usually pleasant and can include private rooms and bathrooms. Overall, both sober living homes and halfway houses…

Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program shouldn’t spell the end of substance abuse treatment. Aftercare involves making a sustainable plan for recovery, including ongoing support. This can include sober living arrangements like halfway houses, career counseling, and setting a patient up with community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA). Dual-diagnosis rehabs…

More generally, xenobiotic metabolism (from the Greek xenos “stranger” and biotic “related to living beings”) is the set of metabolic pathways that modify the chemical structure of xenobiotics, which are compounds foreign to an organism’s normal biochemistry, such as any drug or poison. These pathways are a form of biotransformation present in all major groups…

Content How CBT Works for Substance Use Case Conceptualization and Functional Analysis Current study aims CBT in the Next Thirty Years Here, the substantive question was about the efficacy of integrated CBI over single-disorder or other usual care interventions. Aim two examined these effect sizes in subgroups by follow-up time point, type of contrast condition…

With numerous free resources available out there for anyone who is sober curious, or anyone wanting help with completely removing alcohol from their lives. You may have heard of medical marijuana, or cannabis, being touted as a treatment for nearly any mental health problem or physical ailment. Now that medical cannabis is legal, we have…