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Category Archives: Substance Abuse in Women
Volunteering Key Component of Substance Abuse Treatment
Substance abuse treatment and keeping up your recovery efforts are vital components to achieving long-term recovery. In light of today being National Volunteer Recognition Day, we at Destination Hope: The Women’s Program wanted to take this opportunity to talk about the very real impact volunteering has on a recovering addict’s ability to maintain their sobriety. Read More
Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Explores Family of Origin Issues
Effective substance abuse treatment should have a strong focus on family therapy. This is because our family history and relationships have a big impact on who we are today, and when addiction is involved family history needs to be addressed. Your family of origin, the family that you grew up with, taught you a great many things whether you realize it or not. For better or worse, we first learned how to communicate from our families. We learned how we’re supposed to behave in certain situations from watching how our parents and siblings behaved when faced with those exact situations. As a result, many individuals end up in substance abuse treatment because of unresolved issues that date all the way back to the environment they were raised in. Read More
Sexual Abuse and Substance Abuse
Sexual abuse and drugs and alcohol have a very complicated, intertwined relationship. They have much in common in the sense that sexual violence and addiction can happen to anybody and cross all racial, socioeconomic and cultural boundaries. Substance abuse and sexual assault also carry what most would agree is an unjust social stigma placed on those who experience either. In many instances, being a victim of a sexual assault can be a causal effect of an individual’s downward spiral into drug addiction and alcoholism. At the same time, substance abuse can be part of a group of behaviors that makes an individual more likely to be a victim of sexual abuse. Below we will explore the various cause and effect relationship possibilities between sexual abuse and substance abuse. Read More