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February 7
I am a 21 year old guy who recently completed the program at Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches. I started smoking weed when I was 13, then moved to oxy and percs around age 15. Toward the end of...
February 7
My husband had a career in the military, which meant that from the age of 19 to only a few years ago (I'm 46), I moved about every two years. For over two decades I would set up housing in a place...
January 19
I was 19 when I landed in inpatient rehab. I didn't come from a family who used drugs or alcohol and I was raised as normal as a person could be raised. I was born in the Bronx NY and moved to Morris...
January 6
My road to recovery was a very long one that began with many attempts at a local alcohol rehab on an outpatient basis. Every time I would quickly fall off the wagon after finishing their outpatient...
November 29
Ever since I graduated high school I've worked an average of sixty hours per week. I'm a restaurant manager so I never had time for a vacation, and worked through pretty much every holiday over the...
November 8
I suppose you can say I came late to alcoholism-but not late enough. I never investigated whether or not there was a history in my family, because I really didn't need to; my father had about one...
October 20
I always tried to keep my family's problems within the family. I grew up with five brothers and sisters, and whenever any one of us had a problem, we were there to help each other. We never called...
October 3
I suppose most teens today undergo times of depression, confusion, and insecurity. Unfortunately I never seemed to grow out of this phase even ten years later after my adolescence. In all honesty,...
September 20
Drug treatment in Florida for my addiction to heroin and Roxicodone changed my life for the better in so many ways. When I lived in a small town outside of Ohio I was always on drugs and could never...
September 13
I don't think there was one single injury or occurrence in particular that led to my Oxycontin addiction. For me it was just an accumulation of all the wear and tear of sports played throughout my...
August 29
Last night I was casually watching the Video Music Awards on MTV, flipping back and forth in my classic non-committal, short-attention span manner and happened to catch the end of the show. Call it...
August 19
My son went to an alcohol treatment facility and our family went into a type of treatment ourselves, too – family therapy. Members of my family had tried therapy in the past, and others had not; some...
August 17
I was blessed with beauty, smarts, talents and unfortunately addiction too! Growing up in upstate NY was nice. I had a normal family who taught me the importance of culture, education and health.
But...
August 2
My story of how I began my inpatient drug treatment is a long and complicated one, with a lot of details that are still somewhat difficult for me to fathom. As with many addicts, I was turning to...
July 27
My mom was in desperate need of inpatient alcohol treatment. Her drinking was out of control and there was nothing that we could do to convince her to stop. She even underwent surgery to remove...
July 14
We begged my mom for years to go to a residential drug treatment center. She was using a melodic plethora of drugs for most of my childhood, not to mention her utter absence in my younger...
July 8
Sitting here and reflecting on my own situation, I recall a Simpson’s episode where Homer proposes a toast saying “To alcohol: The cause of and solution to all of life’s little...
July 7
I can’t explain at what point my alcohol addiction got so out of control. The more I reflect on it, the more I realize it has slowly crept up and taken over different areas of my life in...
June 30
When an addict does not receive the proper level of care –inpatient alcohol rehab –for their advanced alcohol addiction, so many things can go wrong. What most people do not...
June 20
Before my alcohol treatment, I had no idea what it could be like to live a life sober. Before my alcohol treatment, I had no idea how beautiful recovery could be. The community of support...
June 13
I have been to a few different alcohol and drug treatment facilities; though, none were more successful than my alcohol and drug treatment in Florida. My first couple at bats with rehabs, I...
June 8
I have been to more inpatient alcohol rehabs than I like to casually admit in a regular conversation. But for the purpose of this blog, I guess I will just tell you. I have been to five different...
May 27
Some things just seem inevitable. The sky will always be blue (weather dependant, I suppose) and the grass will always be green. Also, celebrities will always be in and out of rehabs....
May 18
Because I tried drug treatment in Florida I am finally clean and not using anymore today. I had been in and out of drug treatment centers over the last three years. All of my previous failed attempts...
May 12
Sometimes all it takes to try that first hit of cocaine is a little bit of pressure. Pressure to do well. Pressure to succeed. Pressure to win. Pressure to never, ever lose. Couple...
May 5
You ever notice, once you have completed substance abuse treatment, exactly how many holidays involve alcohol and drugs? (ALL OF THEM!) Maybe this is just a part of my recovery, but I am really...
April 28
I used to use anything and everything that I could get my hands on. I was a poly-substance abuser, as they call it, before my substance abuse treatment. Alcohol, meth, coke, heroin: I tried...
April 25
Having been to multiple inpatient alcohol rehabs, I feel like I have picked up on a few things. At least, I’d hope, by now, that I have learned some things. I did the outpatient rehab...
April 24
I got to my alcohol and drug treatment facility in a bit of a different way than some -- maybe most. I'm sure I'm not the only one to land in alcohol and drug treatment as part of a suspended jail...
April 20
Four twenty. April 20th. Hitler’s birthday. There are so many names for this day. Never did I realize that I would be celebrating my sobriety annually on this day instead of lighting a...
April 7
Like most girls my age, I’ve always felt the urge to fit in and be accepted by my peers. This combined with my addictive personality is the reason I was sent to your typical drug and alcohol...
April 6
Alcohol treatment in Florida is the best thing that ever happened to me. The other treatment centers I’d been to in the past were all fairly local to me in New Jersey and New York. ...
April 1
During my recovery I discovered not only my strengths and confidence in sobriety, but an underlying disorder I never even realized that was responsible for my drug use. I guess during all those...
March 31
Pamphlets for alcohol rehabs are printed every day. Sure their existence is essentially commercial but they also serve hope. They serve help. They serve connections. As a...
March 29
I never used to pray before I was a patient of an alcohol treatment facility. The pain and fear that grasps a hold of the body during withdrawals is as good a reason as any for a man to get down on...
March 22
I often ask myself, “How have I done it?” and maybe I’m just that bad at math. But I just counted 8 years since I successfully completed my heroin drug rehab at Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches...
March 21
I remember sitting in the waiting room for my drug detox treatment to start and shaking like a leaf and wondering “How the hell did I get here”. I knew I was beyond hopeless at that point, but no...
March 18
Today started off like any day usually does—any day post my substance abuse treatment that is. I woke up, brewed myself some coffee and checked my email. Some days I’ll finish my coffee – that’s a...
March 17
This is my first sober St. Patrick’s Day. As an Alcoholic, Irish, Catholic, you may imagine this as challenging. I’ve always spent the day similarly to any other American proclaiming to be...
March 16
It has been 2, 556 days since I began my alcohol treatment and the tulips are beginning to show. Tulips always add another year to my sobriety.
While in my alcohol treatment program, I read books...
March 3
I have often wondered how one allows his or herself to step on the path to ‘addiction,’ and not have the common sense or foresight of where they are heading. My story is one of prescription drug...
March 2
As hard as it had been some days to live a life post alcohol treatment, a life completely sans-alcohol, a life sans-social drinking, I am thankful. My breakdown was fortuitous, beautiful even. And,...
February 22
I remember one day of my drug treatment vividly. Besides the excruciating pain I was experiencing without opiates pumping through my veins, what was memorable was the inspirational picture that was...
February 16
My substance abuse and my escape are one in the same. I know that now. I used to not want to quit drinking. I liked the escape it provided. I liked the way the alcohol could relax all of my...
February 9
I’ve been in recovery for 5 years since my substance abuse treatment. I think back to the beginning of this journey; I think of now. I compare them; the difference is stunning. In the summary of my...
January 20
It seems like newcomers to recovery often ask about 12-step meetings “why do I have to hear the same stories over and over again?” Many times I’ve heard things like “because...
September 23
Dr Louis Baxter talks to George Williams on Inexcess TV's Review Show about the success of Behavioral Health's approach to combining medication and abstinence based therapies in a single...
August 24
My friend sent me an article this week titled "Can 30 days Without Drinking Make You Feel Better?"
The guy who wrote the article made me reflect on the times when drinking still occurs to...
June 9
This is something that I’m not really sure of but I think is true. I think that many drug addicts or alcoholics tend to relapse when things are going well than when a crisis hits. We’re...
March 9
Well here it goes.
27 and counting: Still thinking like an addict. Well I had my 27th sobriety anniversary on March 6th so maybe now my addictive thinking will go away. Perhaps this year I'll even...
January 21
A few days ago a friend of mine asked me if I miss anything about drinking. I thought for a moment and said that sometimes, after a nice dinner, I might miss smoking a good cigar with a snifter of...
December 10
A few weeks ago I was listening to the radio while doing paperwork at the office. A commercial came on advertising a web site that offered to deliver to my home or office any form and any amount of...
November 21
Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches, or better known as BHOPB, is one of the few if not the only drug alcohol addiction treatment center in the country that has a fully staffed research and...
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