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A Last Resort: The Issue of Involuntary Commitment for Addiction Treatment
When a loved one is struggling with substance use disorder, families and friends are forced to make a series of choices they never thought they’d have to make almost on a minute-by-minute basis: Do they belie...
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 ...
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...
Why Should I Go to Local National Recovery Month Events?
As we find ourselves almost halfway through National Recovery Month 2018, many are still wondering how to get involved and find meetings, rallies and events close to them. Others, unfortunately, may still be wo...
Finding National Recovery Month Events in Your Area
National Recovery Month 2018 is in full swing and communities all over the country are mobilizing to organize events and help spread the word. If you’re wondering how you can organize or attend National Recov...
It’s Officially National Recovery Month: Get Involved Now
Today marks the start of National Recovery Month, an event started by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to promote awareness, involvement and education regarding drug and al...
The Year in Recovery: What Has Been Done to Fight Addiction Since Last Year’s National Recovery Month?
September 1st marks the beginning of another National Recovery Month, a 30-day event established by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) aimed at providing educational resource...
Pursuing and Maintaining Dignity in Addiction Recovery
It takes a tremendous amount of courage and dignity to acknowledge and seek help for drug or alcohol addiction; however, it may not always feel that way for people going through the process. Despite the inheren...
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...
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...
Examining Healthcare and 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...
What AG Sessions’ Ruling Means for Marijuana Use in the United States
In a week-long news cycle that has been dominated by other stories about the Trump Administration, it’s perfectly reasonable that one may have missed an item about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ plans to r...
Could Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Be an Alternative to Opioids for Chronic Pain?
Chronic pain is a condition that has confounded physicians and the medical community at large for years. It was instrumental in the hastened approval and subsequent over-prescription of powerful prescription op...
Russell Brand’s New Addiction Book Discusses Path to Recovery
It’s often said that addicts have to embrace recovery in their own way, and there is no clearer example of this adage than comedian, actor, radio host, activist, and author Russell Brand. A man who has, more ...
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...
What’s Next?: Developing and Maintaining A Solid Aftercare Plan in Recovery
When a person first enters recovery, they’re often so traumatized, stressed out and disoriented that they’re not thinking of anything else beyond the next day or two. As time goes on, and they move further ...
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...
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...
RIP Gregg Allman
Last week the American music landscape said goodbye to one of its most prolific and important contributors. Gregg Allman, renowned guitarist, songwriter, solo artist and founding member of the legendry Allman B...
Is Jeff Sessions’ New War on Drugs Threatening Addiction Treatment?
There have been numerous recent political developments that both directly and indirectly affect those struggling with drug addiction. For one thing, the House of Representatives made a successful last-ditch eff...
What Does the Republican Obamacare Alternative Mean for Addiction Treatment?
After weeks of promising a plan that would successfully replace the Affordable Care Act and bring quality health insurance options to every American, the republican-led legislature finally unveiled their vision...
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 ...
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 ...
Addiction Treatment Figures Prominently in Heated HHS Confirmation Hearings
Yesterday Georgia Congressman Tom Price faced questions from his democrat counterparts in his bid to ascend to the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services. Aside from some looming questions regarding eth...
Senator Paul Strauss meets with Recovery Unplugged to discuss drug rehab innovations
On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 Mr.Paul Pellinger got invited by Sen. Paul Strauss of the district of Columbia and Mr. Dalen Harris associate director to the office of inter governmental public liaison to discuss...
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...
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...
State Medicaid Funding Changes to Encourage Addiction Counseling
Those who are in need of more intensive counseling as part of their drug or alcohol treatment program may soon get their wish. Maryland is just one state whose Medicaid program is being altered to encourage mor...
Dr. David Kramer Releases White Paper on The Effects of Music in Treatment
In an effort to further illustrate the profound healing powers of music and the modernity and innovation of the Recovery Unplugged treatment model, our very own resident psychiatrist, Dr. David Kramer, has rele...
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...
Senate to Vote on Landmark Opioid Prevention Package
This is a potential game-changer in the way the United States will fight the spread of opioid addiction going forward. The Senate is set to vote on a package of measures aimed at, among other things, increasing...
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...
Researchers Suggest Using LSD to Treat Depression
This month the world got its first modern look at the brain on LSD. Decades after psychologist Timothy Leary advocated for the drug’s controlled use both in creative experimentation and mental health treatmen...
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...
8 Celebrities That Have Been to Treatment
The hazards of celebrity: besieged with agonizing pasts, instant achievement and other demons, countless A-listers—from former child stars to Oscar winners have sought help at rehab. Many of Hollywood’s ‘...
Songwriting Contest Phase 3
We would love to thank everyone for entering the songwriting contest! The top 5 have been chosen by your votes! Music has been with us as long as we can collectively remember. Musical instruments have been...
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...
Self-esteem and Drug Rehab
It’s normal to feel a bit low while ‘in the rooms.’ I witnessed something that was amazing this week at Recovery Unplugged (a drug rehab in florida). Our director of client services and techs took our f...
Sobriety – A Marathon
As you can tell by the title, I think it is important to take time as much as possible to look at the big picture when it comes to recovery and sobriety. It is easy to get bogged down in the little details and ...
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...
Music Therapy Makes the Difference
We are always saying that music makes the difference....
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...
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...