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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.
Substance Use Trends Among Younger Adults
Although substance use and abuse can occur in adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, or old age, it can look different at these various life stages. Young adults, for example, don’t have the same patterns of use as their grandparents’ generation. Being aware of the...
What Are Co-Occurring Diagnoses?
It is not uncommon for people with mental illnesses to use substances to self-medicate, or for people to manifest or exacerbate a mental illness for the first time after using alcohol or other drugs. Regardless of which condition arrived first, when a person suffers...
How Structure and Routine Aid Recovery
A Plan in Place In high school, I had a teacher who was fond of saying, “If you fail to plan, then you have planned to fail.” It wasn’t until I got older that the phrase took on more meaning for me. Without the safety net of caring adults that had always guided me...
Guidelines for Explaining Addiction to Children
My daughter loves her grandma’s stories. Sometimes grandma will talk about her deceased husband. I never had the opportunity to meet my father-in-law. Alcohol stole his life before I met my husband. After hearing her grandma’s stories, my daughter, who was only 5...
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...
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