In the early days of substance abuse treatment, the focus was on detox and “getting clean,” to the exclusion of almost everything else. As the field of addiction treatment has grown, professionals have come to understand that substance abuse is about much more than a chemical addiction. For lasting success, you need to treat the […]
Pro football player Erik Ainge is speaking out about his drug abuse and bipolar disorder in hopes of helping others. For a long time, no one in the public eye wanted to speak out about mental health issues because of the stigma attached, but as problems like depression and bipolar are better understood, sufferers are […]
The goal of treatment is recovery, but very few centers track the results of their programs as extensively as Foundations Recovery Network (FRN), which oversees The Oaks at La Paloma Treatment Center. One of very few treatment programs in the country to collect five-year comprehensive outcomes data on all clients after discharge, FRN attributes the […]