With the peak of the COVID-19 crisis just around the corner, everyone is scrambling to keep themselves safe and healthy. However, many people unwilling to come to terms with their substance abuse issues are at ...
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How COVID-19 Impacts RAINN Day and Addiction
Warning: The content in this article discusses distressing themes including sexual abuse, rape, and assault, which some may find triggering. If you’re struggling or need support, call 800-656-HOPE for the Nat...
Why Treatment is Essential During a Pandemic
By now, the majority of people in the United States are currently practicing some form of social distancing or self-quarantine. With the fast spread of COVID-19, all areas of life have been uprooted, making it ...
Recognizing National Pet Day at Our Pet-Friendly Drug Rehabs
Pet-friendly drug rehabs have become more and more common in treatment as time has passed. Substance abuse and treatment are hard realities that can drain our willpower, but having our animals with us makes thi...
Are Video Game Addictions Real?
Video game and gaming addictions are issues that have had profound effects on our youth. Since technology and recreational gaming became normal features in our daily lives, there have always been those concerne...
Do You Have A Sports Addiction?
We may chuckle reading about addiction associated with sports, but for some it is a very sad reality that can consume their time, money and relationships. Most of us have a favorite team or hometown hero that w...
How Do Meth and Other Drugs Affect Your Teeth?
Bad teeth are a pervasive stereotype for many people who struggle with or have struggled with substance use disorder. Unfortunately, the truth is that drugs do have an extraordinarily negative impact on teeth. ...
How are Substance Abuse and Self-Harm Related?
Warning: The content in this article discusses distressing themes including self-harm and suicide, which some may find triggering. If you’re struggling or need support, call 1-800-273-TALK or dial 988 for the...
Women and Addiction and International Women’s Day
For International Women’s Day, Recovery Unplugged wanted to recognize the unique relationship between women and addiction recovery. Vicki Quintero, our Production Coordinator, was a client here at Recovery Un...
A Look At Addiction and Codependency
When Prince penned his iconic love song “I Would Die for You,” it’s safe to assume that he was exaggerating. For many people, however, these sentiments and possibilities are far too real, as are their str...
What to Do When Someone Overdoses
It’s a thought that everyone impacted by addiction has had before. What do you do when someone overdoses? Worse, what is there to do if someone you love overdoses? There are millions who are still out there a...
The Dangers of Mixing Librium and Alcohol
A powerful prescription benzodiazepine medication, Librium helps manage anxiety. The brand-name for chlordiazepoxide, Librium can, in some cases, help individuals manage alcohol withdrawals. However, the scary ...
Setting New Year’s Goals In Drug Treatment
“Progress is the word that charms their ears and stirs their hearts.” – Woodrow Wilson Why do we make resolutions? It seems like a tall order. However, resolutions always made in good intention because...
The Right Time for the Resolution
A FEW WORDS ABOUT NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FROM RECOVERY UNPLUGGED’S NATIONAL OUTREACH MANAGER, BLAKE COHEN. Do New Year’s Resolutions Work? Have you ever wondered what percentage of New Year’s resoluti...
Stigma Still Impacts Every Part of Addiction Recovery
In case those affected can’t feel it every day, it’s been confirmed that stigma is present in all areas of addiction recovery. A study from Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital found that many adults ...
AI Deconstructs Relationship between Music and Emotions
We all knew this day would come….robots are taking over in the best possible way. Researchers at USC claim that AI (yep…robots) can map what qualities of our favorite songs give us the warm-and-fuzzies…an...
6 Reasons to go to Treatment During the Holiday Season
The holidays are stressful for everybody. There’s always family drama. If you’re not in the same area, you have to make travel plans. There’s always that one cousin that gets on your nerves. Even if every...
A Look at Addiction and Mental Illness
Recovery Unplugged wanted to take the opportunity to discuss the clear and undeniable correlation between addiction and mental illness, and the increasing importance of dual-diagnosis treatment. We want to prom...
RecoveryFest Music Series Celebrates Addiction Recovery in Nashville
There’s never been a better time than today to get clean. The city of Nashville agrees, which is why hundreds of people in recovery came out this past Saturday, September 28, to have a festive, drug- and alco...
Tennessee Meth Addiction and Recovery Captured in Viral Photo
As overused as the phrase may be, there’s no denying that a picture really is worth a thousand words. This can be especially true for those in recovery whose lives have drastically changed from the circumstan...
A Happy, Safe and Sober Labor Day from Recovery Unplugged
Labor Day: what is there to be nervous about, right? The only thing most of us really have to worry about today is choosing between sleeping in or waking up in time for our favorite furniture sale; or braving t...
Recovery Unplugged Observes International Overdose Awareness Day 2019
Today marks International Overdose Awareness Day 2019, an increasingly resonant global event spearheaded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) aimed at promoting awareness of the scope and pre...
Recovery Unplugged Featured on A&E’s Addiction Unplugged
The stigma against substance abuse and addiction has impacted those struggling with substance use disorder in innumerable ways. Although people in recovery ought to be applauded for the strength and initiative ...
3 Immediate Ways to Integrate Music into Everyday Recovery
Marge Simpson once emphatically stated: “Music is none of my business.” The absurdity and humor of this statement speaks for itself. The reality is that there are few, if any, forces more natural or more un...
Children: Invisible Victims of the Opioid Epidemic
Children often bear the brunt of their parents’ mistakes, and we’re learning that the opioid addiction crisis is no exception to this reality. According to recent data from the Children Services Association...
Why Are Your Employees Struggling with Addiction?
Determining the cause of addiction among your employees is as simultaneously simple and difficult as asking someone why they’re having trouble paying their bills or why they’re estranged from their families...
Important Tips for Cultivating and Maintaining Recovery
Welcome to recovery! Getting clean and sober is like getting another chance at life. As difficult as it can be to finally make that decision to put down the drugs and alcohol, the truly hard part is often stayi...
5 Ways Recovery Unplugged Integrates Music into Addiction Recovery
One of the first things clients and their loved ones ask when they research our organization, is how we specifically use music to help the healing and recovery processes. To provide some more insight, we have p...
Recovery Unplugged Kicks Off Pride Month 2019
June 1st ushered in Pride Month 2019, an event where members of the LGBTQ+ community can feel free, safe and encouraged to actively embrace and express their identities; celebrate with likeminded people and sup...
Staying Sober during Festival Season
Summer is almost here, which means one thing: festivals. That’s right…as we speak there are legions of music and culture hounds from across the country booking hotels, making sure their cars are in good wor...
Recovery Unplugged Discusses Family Weekend with Clinical Director Klifton Fehr
Family is an integral part of the addiction treatment and long-term recovery processes. The ability to reconnect with our loved ones and cultivate a support system during and after treatment is critical to long...
Identifying Substance Use Disorder in a Friend or Loved One
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that nearly 19 million Americans currently struggle with substance use disorder. Alongside them are entire communities of friends and loved ...
Face the Music Foundation Teams Up with Major Recording Artists to Raise Addiction Awareness and Treatment Funds
What do Face the Music Foundation and recording artists Garbage, Richard Patrick and Jam Alker band have in common? Well…probably more than you think…but for the purposes of this announcement, it’s that t...
Race in Addiction Treatment: Addressing the Accessibility Gap
A recent study from the University of Michigan shows that white, non-Hispanic patients are getting treated for opioid dependency through prescribed buprenorphine at rates exponentially higher than the black com...
Recovery Unplugged Celebrates Our Nurses
The Recovery Unplugged treatment approach is driven by a commitment to providing the highest level of acute medical and behavioral care, a commitment undertaken and honored by our exemplary nursing staff. When ...
Recovery Unplugged Outreach Manager Blake Cohen Brings Our Corporate Wellness Program to New Audiences
It’s been three weeks since my corporate wellness presentation at Bounce Exchange, a large tech company based in New York City, and today I received a text from one of their employee’s stating the following...
Recovery Unplugged Celebrates National Nurses Week
Today marks the first day of National Nurses Week 2019, an event organized by the American Nurses Association to observe the vital role that nurses play in medical care, and to celebrate their talents, compassi...
A May Day Message for Workers Struggling with Alcohol and Drug Abuse
The May Day holiday has taken different forms and has been associated with many different events throughout history, one of the most prominent of which is International Workers Day. The relationship between May...
Re-Examining Suboxone: Benefits and Risks of Buprenorphine
Buprenorphine has been in the news more than usual as of late. On one side of the spectrum, we’ve learned that the Justice Department has issued a 28-count indictment against Suboxone® maker Invidor, that in...
Drug Treatment Vs. Incarceration: Drug Courts Can Offer Second Chances
It’s no secret that American drug use and addiction has reached crisis proportions. In addition to year-after-year escalations in overdose fatality, drug abuse continues to negatively impact the American econ...
Addiction in Families: A Roller-Coaster Ride
A FEW WORDS ABOUT ADDICTION IN FAMILIES FROM RECOVERY UNPLUGGED NATIONAL OUTREACH MANAGER BLAKE COHEN. “Whatever those therapy groups you go to are doing, it’s working.” My mother said that line to me o...
Is Your Career Making You Use?: Jobs with the Highest Rates of Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Everyone’s job is stressful, right? Even the people who beat the alarm clock every morning and race with enthusiasm to the most rewarding of jobs occasionally find themselves checking their blood pressure wit...
SLEEP DISORDERS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Sleep problems caused by addiction are known as substance-induced sleep disorders, and a person’s sleep habits are known as sleep hygiene. The unfortunate truth is that a person’s sleep hygiene can be easil...
Testing Strips to Prevent Fentanyl Overdose: Getting Smart or Giving Up?
Fentanyl overdose has been one of the primary contributors to the alarming and tragic uptick in overall drug-related deaths in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports tha...
What Are The Most Addictive Drugs?
This time of year, everyone loves a countdown, from the best songs of the year to the most commonly used (and most ridiculous) phrases, and everything in between. Recovery Unplugged is starting your new year of...
Recovery Unplugged and Christ Bible Fellowship Church Reunite for Holiday Party and Toy Drive
A revived playoff shot for the Eagles wasn’t the only good news to hit the Greater Philadelphia area this weekend. For the second year in a row, Recovery Unplugged had the privilege of teaming up with Philade...
How Does The Marchman Act Help Address Addiction in Families?
What do you do when a family member or loved one struggles with substance abuse and they’re unwilling to seek treatment out for themselves? The reality for millions of families across the United States is tha...
A Thanksgiving Message from Recovery Unplugged
Recovery Unplugged wants to wish all a safe, happy and sober Thanksgiving, from our family to yours. For those in recovery, Thanksgiving can hold particularly special meaning. Although the holiday season usuall...
ASAM Pushes for Increased Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment As Part of New Grading System
Last year drug overdose killed over 72,000 Americans according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Over 49,000 of these deaths were directly attributable to opioids like heroin, o...
National Recovery Month: What We’ve Learned
With another National Recovery Month in the books, recovery and addiction prevention advocates all over the country are left empowered, mobilized and indelibly changed. The fact remains, however, that there is ...
“What’s Next?”: Am I Doing Enough in Addiction Recovery?
Life has been asking itself the same question ever since the one-celled bacterium showed up on Earth: “What’s next?”. A sense of purpose has become just as vital to humanity as food, shelter and companion...
Developing Healthy Lifestyle Habits in Recovery
Recovery takes a lifetime; and it should be a healthy one. As National Recovery Month continues, and so many of us are examining how we live recovery and sobriety on a daily basis, it might be worth taking a lo...
Recovery Unplugged Featured on ABC News
Recovery Unplugged co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Paul Pellinger recently spoke with ABC News about the Recovery Unplugged treatment process, and how we have helped clients all over the country overcom...
How Has Your Recovery Routine Changed in the Last Year?
With another National Recovery Month just around the corner, millions across the nation are preparing to educate and empower themselves to take a more proactive role in combatting addiction and relapse in their...
Recovery Unplugged Featured on Austin’s KVUE TV
Last month, Austin ABC affiliate KVUE stopped by Recovery Unplugged Texas to learn more about our treatment process, success rates and unique and effective program. Our clients and staff were delighted to talk ...
Common Signs of Opiate Addiction
Opiate addiction has been sweeping the nation in the past twenty years and has officially been declared a public health epidemic. The latest data from the National Health Interview Survey reported that in 2017 ...
Meth Addiction Making A Comeback in Many American Communities
As communities across the United States are increasingly beset with escalating rates of opioid addiction and overdose, many are finding the substance abuse threats that face their residents compounded by an old...
Nearly Every American Dealing with Drug Addiction in some form, Pew Report Says
It’s official: drug addiction now impacts practically every American in some way. We often say that drug abuse is everyone’s problem; a recent survey from the Pew Research Center has taken this assertion fr...
Choosing the Right Drug Addiction Treatment Center
The news has been rife lately with stories of opportunistic and lesser-quality treatment facilities putting their own financial interests ahead of patient care and, in some cases, actively threatening patients...
Rap Group Sekkond Hand Comes to Recovery Unplugged
Sekkond Hand is a rap group comprised of three members who are currently bringing the struggles of addiction and overcoming substance abuse to the forefront of music. This week, they will be performing at two R...
The Faceless Nature of Drug Addiction
Decades of media influence, political posturing and cultural sharpening have firmly entrenched images of the stereotypical drug addict into the American consciousness. We think of the homeless person, visibly w...
Opioid Overdoses Increase in 2018
In a bit of expected yet unwelcome news, opioid overdoses have risen in the United States. Despite all the hand wringing from stakeholders and the seemingly empty promises to get this public health issue under ...
FDA Expands Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioids
In the current addiction treatment landscape, only about a third of all facilities offer medication-assisted treatment (MAT) as part of their care options; this number is about to change under new guidelines fr...
Addiction Treatment in America
At the end of last month, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Brenda Fitzgerald resigned after it was discovered that she purchased stock in the tobacco industry; a clear conflict of inter...
Forging Your Own Path: Creating A Recovery Plan that Works for You
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to addiction recovery. In the past few decades, more and more treatment facilities have been correctly utilizing a customized care approach that addresses each patient’s...
Recovery Unplugged Delivers Two Powerful Presentations at This Year’s Recovery Results Conference on Addiction Treatment
With this year’s Recovery Results Conference just around the corner, Recovery Unplugged is delighted and humbled to announce that we will be among this year’s presenters, giving two powerful and inspiring t...
Advantages of Florida Addiction Treatment
For the past few decades, Florida has become a hub for addiction and substance abuse care. Patients suffering from every type of substance abuse issue have been able to find quality treatment in the sunshine st...
Recovery Unplugged CSO Paul Pellinger to Speak at Major Northeast Opioid Conference
On October 11th, addiction treatment veteran and RU’s very own Chief Strategy Officer Paul Pellinger will be speaking at the Sullivan County Public Health Conference. The event, which will be held at the site...
Whatever You Need It to Be: Purpose and Benefits of Drug Rehab
While its purpose is to address the behavioral aspects of drug addiction and to ultimately help patients develop healthy coping strategies to avoid relapse, drug rehab means different things to different people...
Settlement from Drug Distributor Suits to Be Used to Fund Opioid Addiction Treatment
In response to the rampant and ongoing opioid addiction epidemic claiming more and more of its citizens, West Virginia has passed a landmark piece of legislation aptly named the Ryan Brown Addiction Prevention ...
Is It Time for Individual States to Take a More Active Role in Overdose Prevention?
In 2015 New Jersey saw 1,587 deaths from drug overdose, a 21 percent increase from the year prior. That same year, a little further west, Ohio saw 3,050 of its residents succumb to drug overdose, a record high ...
Choosing the Right Florida Addiction Treatment Center
It’s little wonder or surprise that addicts seek a Florida addiction treatment center. The state has long been hailed as a recovery destination. It’s forgiving climate and tropical atmosphere make it an ide...
Milestones: Measuring Success in Long-Term Addiction Recovery
If you ask a multiple people what their definition of successful long-term addiction recovery is, they’ll probably all come up with a variety of different answers. While the answers will all undoubtedly be so...
Is Probuphine Treatment Right for Me?
In May of 2016, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first-ever six-month buprenorphine injectable implant in the hopes of helping patients successfully recover from long-term opioid dependency. Since ...
Probuphine Treatment: What You Need to Know
The world of medication-assisted treatment recently saw the arrival of a promising, first-of-its-kind new way to help patients battle long-term opioid dependency. Probuphine was approved by the FDA in May of 20...
Building A Solid Support System in Recovery
When we enter the early stages of post-treatment recovery, it’s the people around us that comprise our support system and will ultimately be our primary source of strength on some of our most vulnerable days....
What Type of Addiction Treatment Program is Right for Me?
It’s a question every person entering treatment for addiction must ask themselves: What type of addiction treatment program would be the right fit for me? The answer to this question is contingent upon a vari...
Addressing and Managing the Burden of Guilt in Addiction Recovery
Those who are recovering from drug and alcohol addiction experience a full range of emotions, particularly during the first few months or the first year after treatment. Often chief among these emotions is guil...
Is Medication-Assisted Treatment Right for Me?
Medication-assisted treatment or MAT is a viable form of ongoing maintenance for a variety of substance abuse-related conditions, specifically opioid and alcohol addiction. Many patients experience considerable...
What It Means to Truly “Be There”: The Importance of A Support System in Recovery
How many times in our lives have we told someone we care about that we’re “there” for them when they experience times of crisis? Whether they’re struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, have experienc...
Finding An Effective Addiction Outreach Program
The American addiction and overdose crisis has taught us many things, two of the most important of which are that community involvement is vital to curbing substance abuse and that addicts need all the help the...
New Study Reveals Shocking Data on References to Drugs in Music
Rock and roll and hip-hop have been closely linked to counterculture over the past few decades. They have developed an association with sex, substance abuse and violence, as have genres like heavy metal, jazz a...
The Importance of Community in Preventing Addiction
Very often, when we think about the growing addiction epidemic in the United States, and the need for drug and alcohol addiction prevention, we tend to look at it as something abstract; as numbers on a spread...
Aetna Loosens Restrictions on Addiction Treatment Coverage
And now a bit of good news for addicts and their families who are concerned about treatment access in this uncertain healthcare climate. Leading health insurance provider Aetna recently announced plans to remov...
PA Lawmakers Propose Compulsory Addiction Treatment
One of the fundamental tenets of recovery is that it ultimately has to be the addict’s decision. Conventional wisdom indicates that an addict can’t get clean for anyone else but themselves and they have to ...
A Closer Look at What Addiction Does to Families
When discussing addiction and its impact, brief and superficial lip-service is often paid to damage it creates within the family unit. We hear common tropes like how substance abuse takes its tolls on families ...
Six Important Things to Know about Dual-Diagnosis Disorder
Although the link between substance abuse and mental illness has been well documented, many fail to recognize the presence of a dual-diagnosis disorder in themselves or a loved one. Whether they’re unable to ...
Recovery Unplugged Featured in El Paso Inc. Article
Recovery Unplugged had the honor of being featured on the popular Texas News and Lifestyle website Elpasoinc.com last week. The piece highlighted the Recovery Unplugged treatment approach and the positive impac...
What Does 2017 Hold for Addiction Treatment?
As we begin to settle into another year, it can be overwhelming to contemplate how quickly time passes, and to think about what we failed to accomplish the year prior. The passage of time can be even more overw...
Benzos: The Lesser-Discussed Prescription Addiction Threat
As more and more Americans either die or transition to heroin as a result of opioid addiction, an increasing amount of attention and institutional resources are being directed toward prevention and treatment. T...
Common Types of Supplemental Treatment Therapies
No treatment program should be identical to another. The issues and circumstances that trigger substance abuse are as unique to each individual and must be treated as such. Although there are some universal ele...
Decline In Mental Health Treatment Corresponds with Increased Suicide Rate
A report recently published by JAMA reveals a tragic, albeit unsurprising, correlation between the widespread reduction of mental health treatment resources and the collective increase in suicides across the co...
A Victim of Geography: Where Is Texas’ Drug Supply Coming From?
As Texas continues to reel from rampant alcohol and drug addiction, and as more and more residents succumb to overdose and other substance abuse-related causes of death, the state’s elected officials, law enf...
An Important Message from Recovery Unplugged Medical Director Dr. David Kramer
I’ve treated thousands of patients over my 20-year career as a doctor on the front lines of substance abuse and psychiatric illness. Recently, however, I had a heartrending experience that I feel must be shar...
Naloxone Saves Lives: A Message from Recovery Unplugged Medical Director Dr. David Kramer
I’ve treated thousands of patients in South Florida over my 20-year career as a doctor on the front lines of substance abuse and psychiatric illness. Recently, however, I had a heartrending experience that I ...
Sing Your Life: The Positive Impact of Singing on the Brain
Ever notice how we often sing when we’re excited, exuberant or motivated? This is not a coincidence. Nor is it a coincidence that over 30 million adults in America are in choirs. Whether we’re in the car, p...
The Importance of Specialized Therapies in Addiction Treatment
Recovery Unplugged recently published a FREE white paper on the positive impact of music in addiction treatment, and its power to heal those suffering from deep-rooted emotional trauma. We are exceedingly proud...
Three Elements of An Effective Aftercare Plan
Anyone who has ever completed an addiction treatment program knows how important it is to have a solid, realistic and effective aftercare plan. Our aftercare plans can often mean the difference between continue...
The DSM’s Role in Defining Addiction
When an individual engages in prolonged and untreated substance abuse, it’s only a matter of time before abuse turns to addiction if there’s no action taken. The brain undergoes dramatic changes to the poin...
Music-Based Therapy Is Not Just for Musicians
When people hear about music therapy for drug and alcohol addiction, and they find out what it entails, they often think that it’s not for them because they don’t have a musical background; nothing can be f...
RU Co-Founder Paul Pellinger Appears on New York’s Thunder 102 Radio
Ahead of his recent presentation at a Rural Health Network opioid addiction event in Sullivan County, Recovery Unplugged co-founder and chief strategy officer Paul Pellinger took to Liberty, NY’s Thunder 102 ...
What You Need to Know About Medication-Assisted Treatment
Over the past few decades, numerous medications have been introduced in the addiction and chemical dependency treatment landscapes. These powerful, and sometimes controversial drugs have been enormously effecti...
5 Facts About Music Therapy for Addiction
When people hear about music therapy for addiction, they’re immediately compelled to ask numerous questions, not the least significant of which include “Does it really work?” and “How does it work?” T...
New Study Shows Effectiveness of Vivitrol to Treat Addiction
On March 31, 2016, The New England Journal of Medicine reported on a joint study of seven different universities showing the the effectiveness of Vivitrol on opioid-addicted prison patients. All test groups sho...
Addiction Perception – Then and Now
From the start of the 1900s we have demonized addiction. In the 1950s (just like now) heroin use was a hot topic. Clinicians at the thought of addicts as having its roots in neurosis and obsession referring to ...
Addiction Stigma and Understanding
“Why the bigotry, why the stigma, why the shame when we almost all have a version of this disease? We’re all using something to deal with the pain and suffering of being human…Why are we a nation that wai...
Being Sober At College
College, that is where I saw myself start to degenerate and fall (among many of my “friends”). I remember feeling free to do what I wanted and at that point it was smoke and drink all that day. However n...
Music Heals and Influences Change
We base our treatment around the healing power of music and how it can impact change. This week there was a study published about how music helps the healing process for everyone. Queen Mary University of Lon...
Suboxone – Is it Obsolete?
Last week Recovery Unplugged spoke about Vivitrol and how it is helping many people in their recovery from substances. In the not so distant past there was a medication that promised the very same thing: Suboxo...
Music in Recovery @ Recovery Unplugged
Music is the great equalizer here at Recovery Unplugged, well, it is the great equalizer everywhere. I remember the first time I heard Otis Redding sing (I’m not that old, it was in a movie I swear). Hearin...
What is a Dissociative Disorder?
While the term may sound foreign, it is highly intertwined with drug and alcohol addiction and many times is the condition that must be treated in rehabilitation to help patients obtain sobriety. What is a diss...
MusiCares Visits Recovery Unplugged
Today’s group was extra special as we were visited by MusiCares. For those of you who do not know them they are:...
Face The Music – Scholarships for Drug Rehabilitation
Now that we have all recovered from an intense weekend with Face the Music Foundation’s Family Day, we would like to thank everyone once again for all their hard work. What made this especially successful was...
Popular Fiddler Randi Fishenfeld plays at Recovery Unplugged
We had a special guest visit from fiddler Randi Fishenfeld to Recovery Unplugged. Randi is a very well known violinist who has played with some huge names like Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, Journey, ...
Songwriting Group – “Broken and Stoned”
Songwriting therapy through improvisation can be great for clients because it can reflect their feelings in that moment. During our group songwriting group this week, clients did a rendition of "Bad to the Bone...
Last House on the Block Scholarship
First off- Recovery Unplugged would like to express gratitude to everyone who wrote in to apply for our scholarship. It pains us that we are not able to help every suffering addict who needs drug or alcohol tre...
Are you an “Almost Alcoholic?”
Every day, millions of people drink a beer or two with friends or enjoy a glass of wine with a good meal. For more than 30 percent of these drinkers, alcohol has begun to have a negative impact on their everyda...
Long Term Sobriety
For those who have never struggled with addiction, it may seem like rehabilitation is the final step to lifetime sobriety. Unfortunately, the challenge of long term sobriety is a lifelong task as those who comp...
The Role of Social Media in Promoting Alcohol, Drugs and Addiction
At this point, most people have a general knowledge of social media and many people have accounts of their own that allow them to connect with past friends and colleagues. Social media is a great resource that ...
The Dangers of Addiction and Pregnancy
When someone who is struggling with drug and alcohol addiction becomes pregnant, the dangers become not only prevalent to the mother, but her unborn child, too. While many people may know it is dangerous, it is...
Leaving Rehabilitation Early
If you have not struggled with an addiction to drugs or alcohol, it is hard to understand the rehabilitation experience. For most people, it is a grueling time that is physically, mentally and emotionally painf...
Medical Detox
Withdrawal symptoms are extremely drastic and can include serious headaches, heart attacks, vomiting and death in some circumstances. Depending on how long and how much of the drug has been ingested, the body w...