Being a recovering person takes a lot of hard work. Being sober goes beyond stopping your drug use; it involves cleaning up the debris that was caused from years of substance abuse. Perhaps the most important fence to mend is rebuilding trust. Trust in recovery is essential to your sobriety. Rebuilding relationships with family, friends, co-workers, and others in the community goes a long way in building the support network you need to stay sober for the long haul. This article focuses on rebuilding trust in recovery and the importance of repairing relationships after addiction. If you are new ..read more

If you are a parent, raising teenagers can be a nightmare. Not only are teens trying to cope with tremendous changes in their body and brain, they are also dealing with the crushing weight of increased expectations and peer pressure. For some teens–and even your teen–they may deal with these pressures by using drugs and alcohol. What may start off as simple experimentation or a means to “blow off steam” can quickly snowball into full-blown addiction which can have severe consequences as they enter adulthood. This article tackles teen substance abuse and the factors that lead many young people ..read more

There is a huge difference between getting sober and staying sober. If you are early in your recovery, you are no doubt doing your best to work on your individual program of recovery. While you may feel confident that you can stay in recovery, the real litmus test is encountering social situations such as family gatherings, work parties, bars, and other places where alcohol and drugs are present. Will you be able to resist the temptation to use?  Will you be able to detect triggers and escape with your sobriety intact? In this article, you will learn simple strategies for staying sober in ..read more

Having a dual diagnosis can be difficult to experience and challenging to treat. If you or a loved one is grappling with co-occurring disorders, you may benefit from specialized programs that take an “outside of the box” approach to treatment. One such treatment approach is positive thinking. The focus of this article is the power of positive thinking and how dual diagnosis positive thinking programs help empower you to transform your life. As one of Southern California’s premier outpatient rehabs, Multi-Concept Recovery (MCR) provides evidence-based addiction and mental health treatment that ..read more

Recovery from drug addiction isn’t a singular event. Instead, it is a process that changes over your lifetime. Since triggers and cravings are ever-present in your home environment, you need many tools in your recovery toolkit. One of the most powerful tools you can use is the practice of mindfulness. You will learn the importance of learning mindfulness in addiction treatment and ways that you can use mindfulness to strengthen your recovery. The first step to lasting sobriety is evidence-based drug treatment. Multi-Concept Recovery (MCR) is one of Southern California’s premier outpatient drug ..read more

When you enter a drug treatment program, treatment staff will utilize many tools to help you get clean and sober. One of the most important tools staff uses is various forms of therapy. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most effective therapies and is a cornerstone is almost every individualized treatment program. In this article, you will become more familiar with cognitive behavioral therapy and how it can help you address and overcome addiction in the long term. If you are struggling with substance abuse, you need evidence-based treatment programs that are customized to fit y ..read more

When we talk about addiction, we focus on the impacts on the user. While this is important, we are only getting part of the picture. In reality, addiction has significant impacts on their families as well as their relationships. To truly help the addict, we must dive deep and see how addiction affects families and relationships. If a loved one’s addiction is tearing your family apart, Multi-Concept Recovery (MCR) can help you today. Our evidence-based outpatient and aftercare treatment programs treat the whole person, and our family programs help each family member understand and heal from the ..read more

Drug addiction has so many negative impacts on your life. While you focus on the physical and social consequences of substance abuse, you also need to focus on the emotional impacts of addiction. In many ways, addiction distorts your emotions and turns everything upside down. As you start to recover, you struggle to make sense of what you feel and why you feel the way you do. To regain balance in your life, you need to find healthy ways to express yourself. A great way to bring your feelings to the surface is through art therapy. In this article, you will learn more about art therapy in recove ..read more

In many ways, recovery should be seen as a long-term investment. During treatment, you put in many hours addressing the roots of your addiction. While you may have completed a treatment program, it does not mean that your recovery is complete. In fact, the real work in recovery has just begun for you. Truth be told, preventing a relapse goes beyond the physical aspects of drug addiction. To stay clean for a lifetime, you must fully address your whole being in mind, body, and spirit. To achieve total unity, you must embrace holistic relapse prevention techniques. In this article, you will have ..read more

When an addict enters a Los Angeles drug treatment program, the obvious goal is to help them address and ultimately overcome their addiction. While getting the addict clean and sober is the top priority, it only paints half the picture. For the addict to achieve long-term sobriety, there must be family involvement in recovery. Making the family part of the recovery process allows each family member to grow and heal, and it provides a solid support system for the addict when they leave treatment. This article will discuss the involvement of family addiction recovery as well as the benefits of f ..read more