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10 Reasons to Stop Drinking

If you’ve been thinking about quitting drinking, there’s no greater time than the present. Our outpatient alcohol treatment Florida program can help you quit drinking while still allowing you to stay home, be there for your family and keep going to work. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits of quitting drinking with…

Attempts to Crack Down on Prescription Opiate Abuse Backfire

The prescription drug epidemic that has gripped our nation in its iron fist for the past 15 years is finally beginning to stabilize. While many people credit government crackdown efforts with the slow decline in rates of prescription drug abuse, the fact is that many people who became addicted to prescription opiates are now turning…

Top 5 Reasons Kids and Young Adults Do Drugs

While you might think your teen understands the dangers of drug use and would never take the risk of abusing drugs, chances are good your child is now or will experiment with drugs. Teen seek novelty and thrills, and their immature brains aren’t capable of fully regulating their behavior. In fact, researchers now understand that…

Reminder: You Can’t Outsmart Addiction

All too often, smart people wind up in our Suboxone addiction treatment program because they believed that their high intelligence would ultimately protect them from addiction. But no one is too smart to be an addict. In fact, research suggests that smart people are more prone to addiction than people of average and low intelligence…

Addiction Does Not Discriminate

Addiction is a disease that knows no boundaries. While every one of us would like to believe that addiction could never happen to us, the truth is that it can. Every single person we help in our outpatient detox Delray Beach program believed at one point that they, too, could never succumb to addiction. But…