Is My Spouse Bipolar? In any relationship, there are both high times and road bumps. However, when someone you love is bipolar, emotions can run high and low in a sporadic manner. It can be a stressful and confusing situation when your significant other suffers from...
There are a few habits that are harder to get rid of than the habit of abusing substances. This is because chronic substance abuse often turns into an addiction. While addiction cannot occur unless someone makes the initial choice to drink or use drugs, there are...
Addiction doesn’t just pop up out of nowhere. There are many reasons why a person starts abusing substances. One popular reason is that the person is struggling with a mental illness such as depression. This mental health disorder is an illness that you must be...
Drug and alcohol abuse treatment can seem pretty intimidating. At Free By The Sea, our desire is to help patients feel less intimidated by the recovery process. Our goal is not just to focus on a patient’s history with substance abuse, but also to take into account...
In many cases of drug addiction and abuse, the journey can be long and painful. Especially in cases of dual diagnosis – which is when a person has both an addiction and a mental disorder at the same time. In these cases, long term residential treatment dual...
Going through addiction and drug abuse can be tough. It can be painful to see those close to you struggle with addiction. Sometimes, people may not know what to say to someone in recovery. Knowing how to help a recovering addict often proves to be challenging. But...
The current COVID-19 pandemic is negatively affecting countless businesses, big and small alike. It is also negatively affecting the economy, as fewer people are working and thus do not spend as much money. It also doesn’t help that many places are still in social...
As stated by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 96% of people who are actively addicted to substances and not seeking help don’t believe they need to get treatment for help. The other 4% either felt they required treatment but didn’t try going to...
One thing that holds across the world of addiction treatment is that no one individual is the same, and as such, their treatment should reflect that. That being the case, many obstacles stand in the way of one’s recovery. Some desire to live their lives free from...
What is a Drug and Alcohol Evaluation? An evaluation or assessment for the clinical treatment of a substance abuse disorder is often essential. A professional assessor or evaluator will give you questionnaires, talk to you, and possibly do a physical evaluation to...
