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Staying Sober on St. Patrick’s Day with Friends Who Drink
Saint Patrick’s Day celebrates Irish culture and religion, but it can also be a hard day for those in recovery. While it has proud roots, Saint Patrick’s Day’s association with alcohol warrants a little e...
Dating in Recovery: Are You Ready?
The disease of addiction is a disease of isolation, which is why community and relationships can be very positive. However, when it comes to dating in recovery, there’s no “recovery fairy” that tells you ...
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...
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...
The Voice of Experience: Recovering Addict Warns of Escalating Meth Problem in Texas
Earlier this week, authorities in East Texas seized guns and drugs from two locations in the latest battle in the war to curb trafficking, distribution and subsequent addiction within the region. The raid drew ...
‘Tis (Almost) the Season: Maintaining Recovery during the Holidays
One week from today will mark the official start of the holiday season, at least according to the retail industry. For some of us this means making travel plans, getting gifts, performing good works, reconnecti...
Into the Boyd: Talking with Philadelphia Songwriter Trip Boyd about Recovery, Music and Life
Although his matter-of-fact and casual demeanor may not show it, Philly-based songwriter James “Trip” Boyd is a man who has led many lives, through which the common threads have been music and substance abu...
The Benefits of Supplemental Post-Treatment Therapies
Sooner or later our treatment ends. If we’re lucky, our programs give us valuable behavioral coping resources to help us manage the situations that can trigger relapse, whether we have to avoid them or face t...
In Observance of World AIDS Day
Last year 18, 303 Americans were diagnosed with the AIDS virus infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency also reports that there were 12,333 deaths (due to any cau...
Songwriter Brendon David Nielson on Music and Recovery
When Provo, Utah-based songwriter Brendon David Nielson was just seven years old, he watched on television as the Twin Towers fell after being struck by two airplanes. Instead of crying, cowering in fear or eve...
Recovery RockFest 2016 Invades Wilmington
This past Saturday, hundreds in the recovery community gathered at Wilmington, North Carolina’s Hugh McRae Park to hear great music and exchange support during the 2016 Recovery RockFest. The event was hosted...
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...
Recovery Unplugged Celebrates National Recovery Month
A day after recognizing International Awareness Day, Recovery Unplugged is now fittingly observer another important event within the recovery community. This September marks the 27th annual National Recovery...
Recovery Unplugged Austin Celebrates National Recovery Month
September has been designated National Recovery Month by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Now in its 27th year, the 30-day event was established to educate communities all...
Recovery Unplugged Talks with Music Legend Darryl McDaniels
When we buy a record or a ticket to a live show, we tend to focus only on the finished product: the way the beat drops, the way the lyrics cut and resonate, the way the production evokes inexplicable emotion. V...
The Special Plight of the Touring Musician in Recovery
Summer is when touring musicians of all stripes hit the road to connect with their fans and expect their audiences. Touring is a fact of life for most musicians, and a great way stay immersed in their music whi...
Quality Therapies for Long-Term Recovery
Treatment teaches us many new things. It teaches us how to love ourselves, it teaches how to live each day in recovery, and it teaches things about ourselves we would have never otherwise discovered without con...
C.C. Sabathia Opens Up About His Recovery
"If it was my knee or it was anything else, then people wouldn't have a problem with it. But, you know, it being alcoholism, it's tough for people to swallow, but it's the same thing." On October 4th C.C. Sa...
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...
Too Little, Too Late For Drug Offenders?
“These men and women were not hardened criminals,” Obama said in his Facebook Video “but the overwhelming majority had been sentenced to at least 20 years—14 of them had been sentenced to life—for non...
Recovery Unplugged – Raising The Bar
On Friday, April 17 the Family Law Section of BCBA held another sold-out full day seminar & reception event called Raising the Bar. Recovery Unplugged Treatment Center is a full year sponsor of the Broward Coun...
Our Recovery Songs
Over the last couple years, some highly unlikely acts have written songs about addiction and recovery that are, “Amazing.”...
Recovery Unplugged Attends White House Substance Abuse Forum
Scarlet Gleeson, Director of Business Development at Recovery Unplugged, attended a meeting at the White House on January 21, 2015, hosted by the ONDCP (Office of the National Drug Control Policy) and SAMHSA (S...