How to Make a New Year’s Resolution to Quit Oxycodone
New Year, New Way of Life The new year is finally here - we made it. As we look forward to the coming year with a sense of reluctant anticipation, many of us probably ...
How to Make A New Years Resolution to Quit Heroin
New Year’s Resolutions - A Commitment to Change Jotting down a list of New Year’s resolutions is a long-standing tradition - one that most of us decidedly honor in one way or another. Some ...
How to Tell Friends You’re in Addiction Recovery
Telling those close to you that you’re in addiction recovery can be rather intimidating. While you have probably heard that admitting your addiction is the first step towards recovery, admitting your addiction to yourself can ...
Immersing Yourself In Addiction Recovery
If you have successfully completed a program of addiction recovery, you are in good position. You have learned that it is possible to break the cycle of addiction. You know working a program is ...
The Correlation Between Stress and Addiction
We all deal with stress. Some of us might even enjoy the excitement a little stress can add to our lives. But when stress is combined with poor coping skills, it increases the likelihood ...
What Is Powerlessness? Step One of the 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
“We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.” That’s Step 1 of the 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, and as anyone who is active in the 12-Step community ...
Team Immersion Recovery Center: Running to Raise Awareness for Addiction
Immersion Recovery Center is partnering with The Herren Project, a non-profit addiction recovery foundation, to run in the 2018 New Balance Falmouth Road Race and raise awareness for the disease of addiction. The 7-mile “fun run,” which regularly ...
4 Personality Traits That Can Indicate Addiction
The term “addictive personality” suggests a personality type that makes a person more likely to become addicted to drugs or alcohol. But it’s not so black and white. No single personality type sets someone ...
Finding Serenity in Recovery
If you’ve begun recovery from a substance use disorder, you’ve already taken the first step toward finding serenity. This is because when you’re in active addiction, your life is filled with chaos and dysfunction – ...
Prescription Opioids In Recovery
People working a program of addiction recovery have a vested interest in avoiding mind-altering substances, at all costs. It doesn’t matter one’s drug of choice, alcohol or heroin. If you have been touched by ...
