What Is REACH? How Comprehensive Peer Support Helps People Stay Sober
Completing a residential treatment program is one of the most significant things a person in recovery can do. It’s also, for many people, one of…
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How Peer Recovery Support Helps Prevent Relapse
There is something that happens when a person in recovery sits across from someone who has been through it themselves. Not a clinician, not a counselo…
The Menstrual Cycle and Relapse Risk: What Women Need to Know
If you’ve ever noticed that your cravings feel more intense at certain points in the month, or that your mood and resilience in recovery seem to…
Psilocybin and Addiction Recovery: What Current Research Shows
Few topics in addiction medicine are generating more attention right now than psilocybin — the naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in c…
What to Do When Cravings Hit: 7 Strategies That Actually Help
It can arrive without warning. A smell, a song, a specific time of day, a stressful phone call — and suddenly the urge is there, vivid and insistent…
Breathwork in Addiction Recovery: What the Science Says
It sounds almost too simple. Breathe in. Breathe out. Deliberately, consciously, with intention and technique. And yet the emerging body of research a…
Why Summer Increases Relapse Risk — And What To Do About It
Recovery doesn’t follow a calendar. But relapse, as it turns out, has patterns — and summer is one of them.
For many people in recovery from a…
How to Stay Sober at Summer Parties and Social Events
Summer in Maryland means backyard barbecues, Chesapeake Bay cookouts, graduation parties, Fourth of July celebrations, and wedding season — a near-c…
The Connection Between Mental Health and Addiction: Why Treating Both Matters
For a long time, the standard approach to treating addiction and mental health conditions was sequential — treat one first, then address the other. …
How to Get Same-Day Addiction Treatment Admission in Maryland
There are moments when the decision to get help arrives with a kind of urgency that doesn’t allow for waiting. A crisis point. A conversation th…