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4 Drugs that Don’t Mix with Antidepressants

Antidepressants like citalopram and sertraline can help people overcome depression. At the same time, they can have adverse reactions when mixed with other drugs. People who are prescribed medication for depression should be careful about which…
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How Does Online Substance Abuse Counseling Work?

Our country is facing an overwhelming growth in drug and alcohol addiction. While the most recent statistic shows that more than 23 million people in the U.S. are living with addiction, only roughly 10% of people with addiction actually seek…
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Drug and Alcohol Dependence

When it comes to drug and alcohol dependence and drug and alcohol addiction, the difference between the two might be challenging to understand. Some treatment centers focus on only dependence. Others only use addiction. Still more focus only…
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Recovery Resources During COVID-19: We’re Still Open!

AspenRidge wants to take this time to keep the recovery community connected and offer resources to our clients, staff and the community. Over the next few weeks, we will be hosting several online events and offering support in any way we can…
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How to Stay Active in Recovery While Social Distancing

How to Stay Active in Recovery while social distancing by Primary Therapist Brianne Renley In early recovery, I was repeatedly told by another person in recovery “no matter what, we don’t pick up." With everything going on, it is important…
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Why does my addicted loved one’s therapist keep telling me to go to Al-anon?

Laura Whitcomb, LPC, CACII As an adult child of two alcoholic parents I was seeking answers. I recall my first Al-anon meeting. I went in there and ranted and raved about all the ways my parents had wronged me. Though it felt good to speak…
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What Is Substance Use Disorder?

A National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 2017, stated that about 18.7 million adults in the United States had a substance use disorder. That equates to…
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Importance of Life Skills For Successful Recovery

When you were growing up, a family member probably taught you skills like how to cook, clean, and bathe. Those skills are vital. But there are other skills that parents may not have taught because they may struggle with them themselves.…
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Announcing: AspenRidge AspenRidge Virtual Care Online Intensive Outpatient Program

We are very excited to share that AspenRidge has officially launched AspenRidge AspenRidge Virtual Care, our first-ever Online Intensive Outpatient Program (5-Day IOP)! Over 128,000 Coloradans were dependent upon or abusing illicit drugs…
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Life Skills After Addiction

You may have heard the term life skills before and wondered about what are life skills after addiction? Life skills are abilities and behaviors that allow you to deal with everyday life. When you are in addiction, these skills fall by the…

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