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6 Steps for Setting Boundaries with Someone in Recovery

When someone pursues recovery, your relationship with them can change for the better. By setting up boundaries early on and communicating your feelings effectively, you and your loved one can develop a mutual respect that tends to your needs just as much as their sobriety. Follow these 6 important steps from Addiction Recovery Coach Rick Lepkowski.

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What Does It Feel Like to Go Through Drug Withdrawal?

Drug and alcohol withdrawal is a painful and disruptive period of time, but there are ways to alleviate these difficult symptoms. By using pain management tools and healthy coping mechanisms, experiencing withdrawal can be more manageable.

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Detox vs. Rehab? Which is Right for You?

Although many use these terms interchangeably, detox and rehab each have their own purpose. While detox primarily focuses on addressing the physical effects that addiction has had on the body, rehab focuses more on the psychological effects.

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Do You Know Where Your Unused Prescriptions End Up?
More than four billion prescriptions are filled each year. Have you ever wondered what happens to all the unused prescription pills?
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5 Ways to Be Happier
How do we outsmart our biology? Use the following suggestions to help replace negativity and begin sowing the seeds of happiness in your life.
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Addicted Babies
Every year, roughly 10,000 babies are born addicted to opioids. Their first days of life are excruciating ─ consisting of stiff limbs, tremors, extreme diarrhea, fever, irritability, and excessive crying.
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Sober Living

The Beauty of Meditation
Holistic therapies are great complementary tools to traditional addiction treatment.Learn about many benefits of meditation in addiction treatment and recovery.
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5 Things You Can Learn From Recovery
If there is one thing that recovery has taught us all is that people can change. That you can go from rock bottom to the best version of yourself. From being consumed by a drug to becoming a successful professional, a loving friend, and a caring family member.
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Alcohol

Drinking to Get Drunk
Binge drinking is very popular on college campuses. Find out why people drink to get drunk and how to build healthy habits in college.
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What is Naloxone?
91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. Naloxone can help. Learn more about this life saving medicine in this short video.
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Teens

Guide to Staying Sober in the New School Year
Going back to school offers so many new exciting and fun opportunities, but it also offers challenges. 
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4 Things Dogs Can Teach You About Recovery
While people may not initially think about dogs as a source of insight, they can teach humans several lessons about life, recovery, stress, and friendship.
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Sober Living

The Wharf Rats: Concert-Goers and Drug-Free Culture
Discover how the Wharf Rats are creating a safer space for music lovers in recovery who might have avoided concerts out of fear of endangering their sobriety.
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How Much Alcohol Are Teens Really Drinking?
It is never too early to start talking to your teen about the dangers of alcohol. The time is now.
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Sober Living

5 Ways to Keep Your Sobriety and Social Life
Being sober and being social are not mutually exclusive, and easily go hand in hand. Discover five ways to maintain your recovery while having fun with friends.
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