Managing Chronic Pain Without Substance Use
Living with chronic pain can be debilitating, frustrating, and exhausting. For many people, it’s tempting to turn to substance use as a way of managing their physical and emotional suffering from prolonged discomfort. However, using medication or other substances for...
Learning to Accept Chronic Pain
Living with chronic pain can significantly increase the risk of relapse due to the dangers of self-medicating. During treatment, you learn to abstain from substances and move forward into recovery. You can learn to live with and accept chronic pain...
How to Overcome Self-Stigmatization
Although there has been progress regarding the stigmas surrounding misuse of substances and the treatment and recovery for substance use disorder (SUD), much more remains to do to remove these stigmas from our society. There is still much work, from...
Film: Discussing Important Lessons of Sobriety Learned
Film is an art form, an expression of possibilities, and a way to imitate real life. Film as a medium is humanity’s first real go at recreating life and the human experience as we understand it. Films are moving pictures...
