The Importance of Community in Recovery: How IOP Can Help
It is often said that the opposite of addiction is connection. Especially in early recovery, a supportive community is essential for maintaining and finding joy... Read more.
What is Alcohol and Drug Detox Treatment and Why Is It So Important?
Millions of Americans and their families are affected by a substance use disorder each year. However, only about 10% of those who struggle with substance abuse receive... Read more.
Signs of Substance Abuse in College Students
There are currently about 20 million students enrolled in colleges across the United States. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration... Read more.
Dual Diagnosis in the LGBTQ+ Community
Members of the LGBTQ+ community face many challenges that have a significant impact on their physical and mental health. Discrimination faced by the LGBT+ community... Read more.
The Los Angeles Opioid Epidemic
Los Angeles, known for its glamorous Hollywood lifestyle, its pristine weather, and its gorgeous cliffside beaches sadly have a growing presence within the opioid... Read more.
How to Confront a Drug Addict
People that achieve long-term abstinence do it without luxurious treatment facilities. From a Loved ones perspective, one needs to invoke a need to change in order... Read more.
What Works-Mind and Body
In this final contribution to the series of What Works, we will focus on modalities utilized at Clear Behavioral Health that integrate the mind and body connection.... Read more.
How and Why Cognitive-Based Interventions Work
Written by Teresa Bertoncin, LMFT, LPCC Amid the fallout of the global pandemic has been an emerging epidemic of anxiety and depression. In the U.S., the national... Read more.
10 Tips to Get Better Sleep
You snooze you lose, right? Nothing could be more wrong. We all know sleep is good for us, and that we should probably do more of it. But we don’t always act like... Read more.
Low Self-Esteem & Teen Substance Abuse
Self-esteem is one’s own subjective evaluation of their worth. In simpler terms, self-esteem is the way we perceive ourselves. Self-esteem governs our self-talk,... Read more.