Addiction gets worse when going through a pandemic.
The number patients being received at hospitals due to drug overdose has skyrocketed.
Addiction can be diagnosed by a team of clinicians, such as La Jolla Recovery´s team, with more than one decade of experience dealing with addiction.
frustrated man rehab for klonopin addiction
Addicts get even more frustrated by having to stay at home during long quarantines.
Learning that the end of Covid-19 is nor around the corner yet, makes often makes them relapse.
Addiction is not a dead end, only if treated on time.
The Relationship with an Addict Maintaining a relationship with an addict is not easy. The drink or drug they are hooked on becomes the center of their life, and their partner and family eventually take a back seat, along with anything other than the addiction. As the addiction becomes more intense, the addict is no longer able to take care…
The challenge of being a woman, a mom and a worker Today, men and women share positions of power and decision in companies. We all care about development and prosperity. But that job progress also invisibly depends on our individual emotional realities. In fact, we are not as creative or lucid when we have worries at home. Now, there is…
Meditation and Motherhood Being a mom is hard work. Having a lot of information available on the subject will make the job easier, so we know everything, sleep schedules, healthy food menus, parenting theories, and even what cleaning product to use at home. But landing all that information on our lifestyle, temperament, and my son is another enormous challenge. We all…
Dogs as emotional support Animals play an increasingly important role in people’s lives, including being required as “emotional support”, that is, those pets that help their owners regulate and modulate any fear or emotional or mental imbalance. Caring for a dog is a laborious but rewarding task. It implies love, care, time and responsibility. However, when you have love,…
America Has a Pandemic-Related Drinking Problem Having a glass of wine, a brewski or a couple of shots sometimes helps take the edge off from a tense workday, we all get it. The problem is that maybe one day someone will have two beers, or maybe some other day in the future, the same person, after drinking alone for so…
Digital Detox The days were very long during confinement and we missed a lot of people. We also wanted to keep our heads busy. And where do we find comfort, avoidance and that ‘contact’ with our loved ones that we so longed for? What allowed us to move forward, teleworking, buying ‘online’ or informing ourselves of the evolution of the…
What Turns Me Off of 12 Step Meetings and Why 12 Step Advice can Affect Harm Reduction in Opiate Rehabilitation I was walking back home from school one afternoon. I was fifteen years old at the time and I remember it was a sunny autumn day. For some reason I can’t recall what happened, however I woke up in the…
You are not alone My mental health has been seriously affected these days and I have felt very bad, it is emotionally and physically exhausting, my capacity has been reduced in almost every aspect of my life. It has become almost impossible for me to tell someone because I am very afraid of what they will say and because I…
How many pairs of sneakers are enough? I used to think only two. One pair for the gym and the other for hanging out with my friends. “What’s with all those sneakerheads?” – I used to think. But then, the coronavirus outbreak changed everything. How so? Well, I used to get on the subway, the tram and public transportation in general for…
