Drug Rehab Treatment: Admissions Process
The Addict's Mom is sharing a news series of articles to help guide us through what we might expect when we enter addiction treatment. The information is so pertinent and non-threatening, we're proud to share excerpts of it here on Riverbank House. TAM's...
Long Term Drug Rehab to Recovery Coach Career
Long-term residential drug rehab offers much advantage over a 28 day drug rehab program because long term drug treatment not only allows the brain to heal from the damage of drugs, it offers a safe environment with positive reinforcement of recovery tools....
Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment for Drug Addiction
Call a Drug Rehab Directly When we are desperate for help with drug addiction and alcoholism, the emergency department of a local hospital isn't always a great avenue into drug rehab. Doctors are now being trained in special procedures for addressing substance...
First Steps Toward Successful Drug Rehab
Drug Addiction Intervention Strategies When someone we love is destroying themselves with drugs, alcohol, and destructive behavior, we can be desperate to get them into effective drug addiction treatment. Often, the first step to successful drug rehab is...
Another Recovery Success Story: Alex, 31
As a kid I was always smiling, always active with my friends. In high school, I didn’t even notice when sports were replaced by partying. Same friends, same fun. I went to college and partied my way right into dropping out. When I was 21 I had surgery and...
Getting Rich Off Addiction, Reward Over Risk
Ever wonder how to make BIG MONEY from the opioid epidemic? Large financial firms have discovered that investments in suffering offer reward over risk. One example firm --Deerfield Management -- shows how it’s done, if you can follow the money*...
Recovery Centers of America Catches on to Recovery Neighborhood Concept of Care
RCA Hopes to One Day Create Neighborhoods Much Like Riverbank House Drug Rehab in New Hampshire Recovery Centers of America, the up and coming chain of commercial addiction treatment facilities backed by the Big Pharma investors at Deerfield Management and headed up...
The Drug Addiction Epidemic in the News
National Newspapers Huffington Post Pulitzer nominated eight chapter expose "Dying To Be Free" by Jason Cherkis. Print There’s A Treatment For Heroin Addiction That Actually Works.Why Aren’t We Using It? The Washington Post Cheap Fix:...
Why Drug Addiction Requires Long-term Treatment and Extended Recovery Care
Opioid Dependence and Opioid Addiction In the context of drug treatment, we seem to understand that you can be opioid dependent without being opioid addicted (in, say, the case of a terminally ill cancer patient). We seem to understand that opioid dependence and...
Why Long-Term Addiction Treatment Works
Successful Drug Addiction Treatment takes 90 days or more A great article published in PsychCentral a few years ago outlines the benefits of long-term drug treatment by asking "How Long Is ‘Long-Term’ Drug Rehab?" The article, written by David Sack, MD, is a...