What is the Timeline for Withdrawal from Opioids?
Getting Clean from Opioids
Making the decision to finally get clean from opioids is the most important step in your life. Chances are, you have tried to control your use but are unable to withdrawal from opioids. This is completely normal because one of the major signs of addiction is the inability to control use. While this can be very frustrating and has likely caused a lot of negative consequences in your life, it is important to know that you’re not a failure. You are chemically dependent on a substance that is difficult to quit by yourself.
In addition, you are certainly not alone. According to the National Institut...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 3, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Recovery Addiction to Pharmaceuticals Detox Resources for Alcohol and Drugs/Opiates Drug Treatment Substance Abuse medical detox medicated-assisted detox opiate abuse opiate addiction opioid opioids withdrawal Source Type: blogs
What Do the Stages of Change Mean to Recovery?
What are the Stages of Change?
At the University of Rhode Island, two researchers named Prochaska and DiClemente deciphered that there are 6 stages individuals go through and experience while seeking addiction, going through recovery and ultimately maintaining sobriety. These stages became a model known as “The Stages of Change”, which we base our individualized treatment plans on at Cliffside Malibu. This doesn’t end with the client – we use the Stages of Change to assess the family or loved ones of the person suffering from addiction. It helps us understand where they are in relationship to their stages of ch...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - April 5, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Substance Abuse drug addiction recovery family family disease family involvement family program family support family therapy Stages of Change Stages of Change model Successful Addiction Recovery succ Source Type: blogs
Repairing the Damage Addiction Has Done to Family and Friends
Addiction is a Family Disease
Addiction is a destructive disease that can leave many things damaged along its path. Aside from health and behavioral issues, relationships are something that can become negatively affected by an addiction. Understanding that addiction is a family disease is an important first step in repairing the damage addiction has done, whether you are the person suffering from addiction or not.
Understanding the Damage Addiction Has Caused
If you are suffering from an addiction, it takes much more than sobriety on your part to repair relationships with loved ones. When seeking to repair these important ...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - March 21, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Alcohol Alcoholism Relationships Substance Abuse family family involvement family program family support family therapy Source Type: blogs
Is Being an Addict a Stigma?
The Stigma of Addiction
Stigma is defined as “a mark of shame or discredit”. This is especially damaging to people suffering from addiction, because it means that it should be something to be ashamed of. This thought process stems from actions and activities that happen as a symptom of the disease, such as: impaired judgement, legal issues, behavioral issues, damaged relationships and unscrupulous activities.
These actions can be damaging to families, careers and lives, which makes it understandable for the people involved to feel embarrassment or shame. For example: if a family member of yours who is suffering from ad...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - January 10, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Uncategorized addiction family family disease family program family therapy stigma Source Type: blogs
Why connecting with therapists and staff can make all the difference
While you’re going through treatment, it is vital you take advantage of connecting with your therapists and staff in your residential treatment center. This means not only listening to them and sitting for sessions, but actively connecting and reaching out to them throughout the process. Being an active participant with them can help keep you accountable and become more serious about your sobriety.
You don’t have to go through it alone
Going through the addiction recovery process leaves you with about a million unknowns. How will you feel throughout detox? How long will it last? How do I control my temptations? Can I r...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - November 27, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Treatment and Program Resources Alcohol Alcohol Rehab Information Alcoholism Drug Rehab Information Drug Treatment PTSD Relationships Sober Living and Aftercare Substance Abuse family therapy Source Type: blogs
Triggers to Avoid During the Holidays
Know your triggers
A major part of a successful recovery process is knowing what your triggers are. During the holidays, it can be a time that they present themselves more often than not. It can also be time when new triggers can arise that you didn’t realize you had before. It’s important to sit down and make a list of all the triggers that you think may pop up, and come up with a plan for each of them. This will give you better confidence for handling the situation when it pops up, and you will be able to move past it successfully with your newly-honed coping skills.
Common holiday triggers
Traveling
Pressure to be ...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - November 13, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Uncategorized addiction alcohol family family therapy holidays PTSD relationships triggers Source Type: blogs
Why Involving Family is Key to Success
Substance abuse is a family disease
A little known fact that families of addiction tend to overlook is that addiction is a family disease, in which each member is affected. If a family member is going through addiction, it is important for everyone to rally together in support. It may not always be possible to have the whole family come together, but the help of even one individual family member can prove to be crucial to a successful recovery process.
There can be many factors and circumstances with members of a family that can cause them to not offer support. Does any of this sound familiar?
A family doesn’t have the t...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - September 5, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Treatment and Program Resources Alcohol Alcohol Rehab Information Alcoholism Drinking Drug Rehab Information Drug Treatment Parenting Relationships Sober Living and Aftercare Substance Abuse Source Type: blogs
Stages of Change
What are the Stages of Change?
At the University of Rhode Island, two researchers named Prochaska and DiClemente deciphered that there are 6 stages individuals go through and experience while seeking addiction, going through recovery and ultimately maintaining sobriety. These stages became a model known as “The Stages of Change”, which we base our individualized treatment plans on at Cliffside Malibu. This means that we meet you where you are mentally, physically, and spiritually, helping you to overcome the issues that have caused your addiction to grow to what it has become. Utilizing a carefully selected array of th...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - August 3, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Treatment and Program Resources Alcohol Alcohol Rehab Information Behavioral Addictions Cocaine Drug Rehab Information Drug Treatment Heroin Methamphetamines Sober Living and Aftercare Substan Source Type: blogs
What is the Difference between Residential/PHP/IOP treatment?
What is Residential Rehab?
Rehabilitation in a residential setting is referred to as Residential Rehab. In residential rehab, patients reside in a facility more reminiscent of a home for the length of their treatment. Treatments can vary anywhere in length from 30, 60 to 90 days or more. (Duration of stay can be shorter or long depending on the type of addiction, as well as co-occurring dependency on other addictions or coinciding mental health disorders).
Duration of stay is wholly dependent on how well the Client is doing during their stay in rehabilitation. Our treatment of co-occurring mental health disorders are als...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - August 2, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Treatment and Program Resources Alcohol Alcohol Rehab Information Depression Treatment Drug Rehab Information Drug Treatment Substance Abuse addiction treatment center addiction treatment facility Source Type: blogs
Podcast: How Is Depression Expressed in Children and Adolescents?
The rate of depression in children and adolescents continues to grow, leaving many parents clueless on what to do. What is driving this increase? Are things truly different for young people today, compared to twenty or thirty years ago? This episode welcomes a child psychologist to address these issues and more, including: how and why kids today are overloaded with activities, the different ways depression expresses itself in youth versus adults, how to tell when kids are “just being kids” versus dealing with depression, how to recognize the various signs of depression in young people, and how parents can stop feel...
Source: World of Psychology - August 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: Children and Teens Depression General The Psych Central Show Gabe Howard Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
When Your Partner Breaks A Promise
Your partner broke a promise. Again. They promised to do more around the house. But they didn’t. They promised to stop criticizing you in front of your friends. But they haven’t. They promised to stop over-spending or gambling. They haven’t done that either.
Maybe they broke an even bigger promise—and had an affair.
Broken promises, big or small, corrode trust, said Ashley Thorn, LMFT, a psychotherapist who helps families, couples and individuals facing all kinds of struggles and transitions.
“And without trust in a relationship, there is no feeling of emotional safety, which rids partners of their ability to be ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Marriage and Divorce Mental Health and Wellness Relationships Self-Help Stress Source Type: blogs
How Parents Can Navigate Oppositional Defiant Disorder
It’s normal for teens to act out. They are growing up after all and with that comes an increased need for more independence and autonomy as they approach adulthood. They will test limits, argue with their parents and sometimes get into trouble.
However, sometimes there might be more going on than normal teen rebelliousness. If you notice that your teenage son or daughter seems defiant, uncooperative and is hostile towards you, their siblings, peers, teachers and others in authority, they might have a type of behavior disorder known as Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD).
What Exactly Is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
ODD...
Source: World of Psychology - July 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tyler Jacobson Tags: Anger Bullying Children and Teens General Parenting Personality Students Success & Achievement Violence and Aggression Acting Out Adolescence Autonomy Boundaries Defiance High School Independence Passive Aggression Questi Source Type: blogs
Family therapy via medical missionary work
The initial doubts first surfaced mid-way through our flight bound for Montego Bay, Jamaica. In fact, we were not entirely sure that this trip was such a good idea after all. Our eldest son, 13 and in eighth grade, was already complaining about how much school he was missing and how much homework he had been assigned. Our daughter, a sixth-grader prone to procrastination, had her nose buried deep within a book. Ordinarily, this is not a bad thing. But when language arts and social studies assignments were beckoning, reading a stock, contrived, YA book for pleasure was not exactly what I hoped she would be doing. The first-...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 22, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/belen-gallarza-wilson" rel="tag" > Belen Gallarza-Wilson, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Adults Can and Do Have Tantrums
When we hear the word tantrum, we picture a 2-year-old lying on the floor kicking and screaming. Very rarely do we use it to describe an adult having an outburst. In reality, adults can have this kind of outburst at any moment in time.
We don’t typically refer to an adult as having a tantrum. We refer to them as being angry or “just blowing off some steam.” However, when their behavior becomes cyclical, predictive, or problematic the impact of their behavior should be assessed and addressed.
Tantrums typically follow an action made by another person that results in the recipient feeling angry, disappointed or discou...
Source: World of Psychology - June 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anjail Ameen-Rice, LCSW Tags: Agitation Anger Communication Violence and Aggression Anger Management Emotional Dysregulation Rage Tantrums Source Type: blogs
What Should Teen Rehab Provide?
Sometimes, for the young person, simply being removed from the environment where the dysfunction is occurring for a short while helps more than anything else.
There are benefits and challenges to sending a teenager to rehab, both for the parents and the teen. Being away from home and friends, disgruntled peers, feeling alienated and misunderstood by therapists and treatment center staff and a bevy of new rules can all create upheaval. For adolescents, whose emotions are already more volatile and unpredictable, it can be difficult to find the willingness to do the frequently taxing psychological work that’s part of treatm...
Source: World of Psychology - May 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Addiction Children and Teens Family Publishers Recovery The Fix Adolescents Alcohol Drugs Parents Rehab teen rehab teen treatment center Teenager triggers Source Type: blogs
