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Our country is experiencing a drug epidemic. 100 people die a day from drug overdoses. Heroin is taking out entire cities. People are becoming hopelessly…
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Do you realize that many of the treatment modalities that are in place today were started in the 1930s? Did they work? Yes. Do they…
Don’t pick up the phone. At Vertava Health we talk a lot about getting you or your loved one into treatment. Just make the call,…
Finding a good treatment program is paramount to success. Regrettably, there are some addiction treatment facilities that may say they offer a particular program but…
We always think of addicts as people who chose their disease. A kind of “deliberate chooser.” That it was the fault of the deliberate chooser…
We need to stop using the most offensive addiction recovery term out there. There are many different terms for recovery from drug or alcohol addiction:…
Recently headlines were made when the famous French actor Gerard Depardieu gave an interview with SOFILM where he stated the following, “I can’t drink like…
The biggest myth of drug addiction rehab: You will be cured of addiction after 30 days. On day 31, you’re done with addiction and ready…