The Aviary Recovery Center Blog
How Is Your Addiction Affecting Your Child?
If you're struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, it's understandable to wonder how your substance use disorder will affect your child. However, just like any other parent-child dynamic, there are multiple factors to consider. Children are not unalterably set to...
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Is Your Teen a High-Functioning Alcoholic?
If your teenager is regularly abusing alcohol, it is possible that they are able to keep this part of their life hidden from you. Although addiction can take over a person’s mental and physical health, sometimes it can manifest itself in less obvious ways. Learning...
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Dating and Addiction Recovery: Sharing Your Sobriety Story
Usually addiction recovery professionals recommend steering clear of new relationships until you have been sober for about a year—of course, this amount of time will depend on each person’s situation. Remember that in your post-treatment lifestyle, you need to first...
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Do You Fear Withdrawal?
While it is true that the addiction recovery journey is a difficult and life-long commitment, the rewards of sobriety—like being set free from the substance(s) that controls your life—are worth it. What is keeping you from entering into a substance abuse treatment...
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How to Choose a Recovery Center
Now that you’ve decided that you’re ready to begin your substance abuse recovery journey, take a deep breath. Making this first commitment can be the most difficult step for many people, but it certainly isn’t without its rewards—this is your life’s turning point....
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Addiction Recovery Resources for College Students
“It’s not alcoholism until we graduate!” This semi-sarcastic phrase has often been chanted among college students as a way to rationalize their decision to abuse drugs and alcohol. The logic might seem absolutely unbelievable to most people, but the reality is that...
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Rebuilding Trust with Your Loved One in Recovery
It might take some time to fully adjust to life after your loved one has completed their substance abuse treatment program. Trust will be extremely important in your relationship, since recovery is a process that demands growth, patience, and healing. Trust is rarely...
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How Can a Supervised Drug Injection Site Be Safe?
The concept of an illicit drug injection being “safe” in any kind of context is controversial. However, some people believe this idea might be a way to fight the drug epidemic in the United States. What Is It? According to an article by NPR, a supervised injection...
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Celebrating a Sober New Year’s Eve
If you have recovered from a drug or alcohol addiction, the thought that New Year’s Eve celebrations are waiting right around the corner might be a source of unwelcome dread or anxiety for you. However, there are a few ways that you can still ring in this new chapter...
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Addiction and the Elderly
Contrary to its many societal stigmas, addiction is a physical illness that anyone can be susceptible to—even the elderly. In fact, the elderly might be more at risk for developing an addiction than what is often initially expected. According to an the Partnership for...
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