Recovering a Career After Treatment
Universally, one of the paramount things on most people’s minds during treatment is how they’re going to support themselve...
Make Love, Not War? (Treatment of Sex Addiction)
When does sex turn from being love to an addiction? There are many theories about this, and it is often thought that when sex ...
Getting Into Rehab: Getting In and Getting it On
It’s going to be one of the most important decisions of your life. You know you have to go, and the only reasons for not goi...
Self-Trust: An Acquired Skill
One of the toughest things to develop during recovery from drugs or alcohol abuse is developing self-trust. We’ve spent so m...
A Story of Treatment (Part ONE)
Alex P. is a methamphetamine addict who is entering treatment for the second time. His previous attempt at rehab was a straigh...
Privilege: A Blessing or a Curse?
Money can’t buy you happiness…but it can buy you a big yacht that can sail right up next to it. At least that’s what I t...
Eating Disorders: Prevention and Treatment
Eating disorders are potentially life-threatening conditions that require treatment that is on the same level – and sometime...
5 Steps to Getting Through Rehab
Going into inpatient treatment can be a scary time. For most addicts, although the necessity of rehab may not be a surprise, t...
What to Look For in a Malibu Treatment Center
For addicts and alcoholics, there is one important step that must be made before they can pick where to go for treatment. It d...
After Treatment: The ‘Get Well’ Job
For most, one of the first orders of business after treatment is to secure some form of employment. Depending on the financial...
Teenage Alcoholism Treatment
Alcoholism in teenagers is one of the most potentially deadly diseases to treat. Aside from the addiction itself, the fact tha...
Post-Rehab Survival
So you’ve made it through treatment…congratulations. And that’s meant in a very sincere way. You need to look at your ac...
Teenage Alcoholism: Treatment
Teenage alcohol abuse is such a precarious proposition that its treatment must be viewed with as many options as possible. Tee...
Barbiturate Addiction and Treatment
Barbiturates are a well-known depressant, popularized in the 20th Century era as a sedative and an anesthetic, and are still u...
Neurofeedback in Drug Treatment
One of the most exciting, new and successful modalities in the treatment of drug and alcohol abuse is Neurofeedback. Neurofeed...
Rehab in Middle Age
Going through drug treatment at any age is an arduous task, no matter what age you are and whatever your station in life. You...
Treatment vs. Jail
The War on Drugs has been raging for over 40 years now. Thanks to the cunning genius of minds like Richard Nixon, substance ab...
Dealing With Legal Issues in Treatment
Upon entering treatment, many of us are involved with legal entanglements that are often the result of our addictive behavior....
Teenage Substance Abuse Treatment: “Investing i...
There are as many variations in treating teen drug abuse as there are drugs themselves. The treatment of adolescents entails l...
The Early Days of Recovery Employment
Having a career in the recovery field is one of the more unique jobs one can have that requires a fairly limited amount of tra...
Drug Treatment in the United Kingdom
Substance abuse treatment in Great Britain has been undergoing great changes in the last several years. As late as 2008, the U...
Rehab..Rinse..and Repeat?
Most people entering rehab plan to make it their only time. It’s quite understandable, especially if one can recall the phys...
Early Drug Treatment: The Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic
“If you’re goin’ to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair…” San Francisco” -John Phillips, reco...
The Dangers of Rehab Romance
The one thing that many people (especially young people) hear in the world of recovery is the suggestion that one wait a year ...
Setting Boundaries In Rehab
Setting healthy boundaries in rehab in your relationships with other clients and staff is one of the most difficult, yet ultim...
Top-10 Do’s & Don’ts in Treatment
Rehab isn’t easy, and despite any amenities and conveniences that the treatment center you choose may have, it’s designed ...
Choosing A Dual Diagnosis Facility
Dual Diagnosis (also called co-existing disorders, COD) is when one suffers from mental illness and substance abuse. One of th...
Relapse Prevention
“Without relapse prevention, I guess there’d be more…relapse.” This comically simple phrase was uttered by an attend...
Top 3 Ways Someone Chooses a Drug Rehab
Creative Care Malibu is interested in how people make their decision when choosing a rehab. Creative Care’s admissions staff...
Creative Care Drug Rehab in Malibu CA Nationwide ...
Creative Care is proud to announce their first ever television commercial! Traditionally, we have not done any kind of adverti...
Drug Rehab Program: The Top 3 Ways Someone Chooses
Creative Care is interested in how people make their decision when choosing a rehab. Creative Care’s admissions staff asks e...
Russians in Rehab
Alcoholism and addiction see no colors and have no cultural boundaries. This disease affects people of all ages and cultures a...