Making a decision to go to rehab is the first step in a chain of actions aimed to solving the deepest problems that triggered your addiction in the first place.
Both outpatient and inpatient treatments are useful. La Jolla Recovery´s staff can assess an individual´s situation and help you decide the kind of rehab most suitable for you or your loved one.
Reluctance to go to rehab is very well rooted in popular culture. Amy Winehouse´s famous song is a good example of a tragic outcome for following its lyrics advice, as we all came to know.
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Eating Disorders An eating disorder is a serious mental illness, characterized by eating, exercise and body weight or shape becoming an unhealthy preoccupation of someone’s life. Eating disorders are a group of problems related to what the person eats. How she values her body and relates to herself, her food and her environment. Within eating disorders we can find several….
Living with a drug addict If you are living with a relative or loved one who is addicted to drugs, you must be prepared to face any type of situation that may occur along the way. Drug addiction is unbearable and harmful not only for the addicted person, but also for the family and friends around them. The emotional and…
Tom Brady, American Presidents, The Pope and Age How come an athlete 15 or 20 years older than his peers triumphs year after year, becoming an unbeatable legend? We just witnessed that at the LV Super Bowl. Mahomes’ mother is only a couple of years older than Brady. Nevertheless, experience beat extreme youth. He has publicly thanked his fitness guru,…
Ohio begins a lawsuit against the largest 5 pharmaceutical companies developing prescription opioids and is setting the tone for accountability and responsibility in the heroin addiction and opioid epidemic in the United States. Ohio is the second state after Mississippi to go after the pharmaceutical companies regarding their current heroin addiction epidemic. Ohio has recently seen an exponential growth in…
What makes communities safer? Incarceration or drug rehabilitation? As we prepare to see the impacts of Jeff Session’s mandatory minimums of drug cases, we look back on the 80’s drug war and the apparent reduced crime rate. With people behind bars for mandatory minimums, we simply want to remind those with strong feelings about alcohol and drug abuse the importance…
For students, the relief from exam stress, studying and being away from family, loved ones and a social structure, is many times an under supervised and unscheduled space where alcohol and drug abuse is easily taken to the next level. We want to invite you at La Jolla Recovery in San Diego to reach out for questions whether a loved…
We commend Pete Davidson from SNL to speak about his sobriety and in a humorous yet honest way be genuine about the struggles and journey. It is said that comedy equals tragedy plus time. The timing couldn’t be better. In a time of opiate addiction from prescriptions to heroin and alcoholism affecting colleges and the mental health of many, a…
