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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.
The Hereditary Nature of Addiction–And How Families Can Change the Pattern
There is a tendency in my mother’s family to blame everything on her father. He was a violent, angry man, whose entire adult life revolved around alcohol. My mother and her siblings blamed him for the family’s poverty, for several of them being raised in foster care,...
Top Causes of Relapse
There is no chronic disease with a zero percent relapse rate. Whether you’re talking about diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure or addiction, the people who struggle with these afflictions may have an occasional slip or even a huge setback after they’ve found...
10 Sober Activities to Do While Social Distancing
Avoiding Loneliness Isolation and loneliness are two of the biggest risk factors for relapse. In a time when we’re all being told to stay home and avoid people, how can a person in recovery still avoid becoming lonely or isolated? There are a number of sober...
Finding Sober Friends To Support Your Recovery
Depending on your unique situation, you may or may not have had a lot of sober friends or family members to rely on once you decided to leave substances behind. Even so, you probably realize that a support system is critical for a person in recovery. If the support...
How Active Addiction Increases Risk for Communicable Diseases
While there is never a “safe” time to use illicit drugs, being exposed to a contagious disease can make it especially dangerous for a person to be in active addiction. There are a number of factors that could put people who use drugs in increased danger from...
How to Talk to Your Child About Underage Drinking
According to the office of the Surgeon General, nearly 10.8 million young people, ages 12-20, engage in underage drinking, with up to 45 percent of 12th graders reporting that they have drank alcohol in the past month. In fact, more young people drink than smoke...
Using Family Recovery Contracts to Navigate Addiction Recovery
It can be difficult for families to know how to proceed when one among them has struggled with addiction and is in the early stages of recovery. Family members tend to either avoid the person or cut them too much slack. A Happy Medium Both of these rather extreme...
Less Stress Means More Successful Recovery and Less Chance of Relapse
Stress—that feeling of tension, anxiety, and more—is problematic for most everyone. Our jobs or schoolwork are demanding. Our families are demanding. And our days are filled with small annoyances—traffic, construction, bills, errands, lost keys, email, expired...
Group Therapy for Substance Abuse
There are times when a problem can be solved by enacting one simple step. Unfortunately, addiction is not a simple problem. Addressing it requires a variety of different processes, enacted together, to most effectively reduce the odds of relapse. Group therapy is one...
A Guide to Parenting While in Recovery
Once you've completed residential treatment, it's time to focus on strengthening your relationship with your child. Parenting while in recovery is challenging, but many of the skills you learned during your time at Safe Harbor Recovery Center in Portsmouth, Virginia...
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