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Family Support

No Shortcuts to Alcohol Recovery

If only you could go to the doctor to get a shot to stop drinking, right? You could skip all those AA meetings, relapse struggles, and cravings outright, pass “Go” and collect your $200, so to speak. It would be as simple as that.

Family Support

The 8 Essentials of Wellness

What does wellness mean to you? Maybe your mind immediately goes to your physical health, or you think about your emotional state or spiritual life. Wellness is a broad term, with everything from life experience to culture and region impacting how we think about it.

Addiction

A Season of Sobriety: Being in Treatment During the Holidays

The leaves are starting to turn. Days become shorter, nights longer. The once refreshing cool breeze of summer has grown chillier and stronger. Football is back. School is in session. I find myself craving hearty foods and warm beverages. Fall is here, and that means the holidays are close behind. 

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Recovery

Did You Make Your Bed?

Problems. So many problems. There’s money problems, relationship problems, work problems and health problems. Active addiction has made mountain ranges out of ant hills. All of my escaping and withdrawing from life did not prevent life from happening and it happened, problematically.  “Will she take me back?” “How am I

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Addiction

Now You Know Me – How the 5th Step of A.A. Changed My Life

Secrets.  There’s a saying I’ve heard a thousand times in meetings, casual conversation, from podcasts to major television interviews; “Secrets keep you sick.” Another variation would be the oft quoted; “You’re only as sick as your secrets.”  When it comes to my disease of addiction, these phrases go beyond truth

Addiction

Abstinence is not the cure for Alcoholism

Understanding the True Nature of Alcoholism Imagine you are suffering from an illness, which centers in the mind, and its primary symptoms include: restlessness, irritability, negative self-image, being overly critical of others, self-pity, depression and general anxiety. Now also imagine that a few drinks make these symptoms temporarily disappear and

Recovery

Medically Assisted Addiction Treatment

While Discovery Place cannot answer that question for you, we would like to share some information that may help you answer that question for yourself. Our Executive Director, Thomas McCollum has 10 years of personal experience with medically assisted treatment. Here’s his story: