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Welcome to the Safe Harbor Recovery Center blog! Our blog offers articles and resources for individuals and families affected by substance abuse issues and addiction to alcohol and drugs.
Eight Scary Facts About Addiction
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, these facts about addiction might provide compelling reasons to seek out treatment. Fact #1: The drug a person is using may impact how long it takes for them to become addicted. While it may take...
Self-Care is Crucial to Sustained Recovery
Self-care is a term some people associate with vacations, shopping sprees, and luxury. Though self-care can include indulging in the sorts of fun activities that celebrities post on Instagram, it more often includes making quiet, steady choices to live a healthy,...
Loving Yourself in Recovery
For many people who are new to recovery, loving themselves seems like an impossible task. They may have made choices in active addiction that caused harm to themselves and people they loved. Remembering these unhealthy behaviors can cause the person to feel guilt,...
How Meditation Supports Recovery
Some common pieces of advice that people in recovery receive are to stop judging themselves and others, to listen to their bodies, and to implement some structure and stability into their lives. One way to work on all of these things together is meditation. While...
How Does Narcan Work?
In the United States, the number of opioid overdose deaths increased by 120% between 2010 and 2018, and this number increased even more during the pandemic. This is partially due to supplies of illicit drugs being laced with fentanyl, an opiate 50-100 times more...
Supporting Recovery with Nutrition
With the start of a new year, it is not at all uncommon to hear people from all walks of life making goals related to eating healthier. For a person in recovery, this can also be a critically important goal at any time of the year. It may seem too simple to be true,...
Signs of Opioid Abuse
When a person first starts abusing substances, it may not be obvious to their loved ones exactly what is happening. Because every drug is different, the signs of abuse can also vary. Opioids (drugs derived from the poppy plant or synthetically created to replicate...
“Laugh Therapist” and Veteran Vernard Hines Helps Others Heal With a Higher Purpose
After completing his first tour in Iraq, retired Army Sgt. Vernard Hines realized he had post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, but “seeking help or talking about it wasn’t an option—it wasn’t as highly accepted as it is now,” he tells Safe Harbor Recovery Center....
How Music Supports Recovery
When people think about ways to treat addiction and prevent relapse, they often picture treatment programs, recovery groups, and possibly talk therapy. While these things are certainly important elements of treatment, long-term recovery from addiction requires the...
Supporting a Loved One’s Sobriety During the Holidays
If you have a friend or family member who has recently left behind alcohol or other substances, you may be wondering what you can do to support them. For many people, and especially those in recovery from addiction, the holidays can be a difficult time, and therefore...
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