We’ve all seen the cliché movie script: squalid drug user decides to get clean, goes to a few meetings that start with “Hi, I’m John and I’m an addict,” and later graduates shining, polished, and ready…
Living Sober
This week in its Science section The New York Times ran an article tantalizingly titled “An Addiction Vaccine, Tantalizingly Close.”…
Our Picks
It’s a story that sent the local news swarming: Five Students in Marin County Hospitalized After Cough Syrup Overdose. The teaser is easy to imagine: “The dangerous new drug that’s sending teens…
From limes to lettuce to buckets of grease, drug-smuggling stash spots are a testament to man’s limitless creativity and undying need for speed (and coke and heroin and pot). Some of the…
Rehab Reviews
St. Gregory Retreat Centers
Introduction and Basic ServicesFor over a decade, St. Gregory Retreat Centers has offered gender-specific holistic and evidence-based treatment in the…
Bella Monte Recovery Center
Bella Monte Recovery Center is located in Desert Hot Springs, California, in the now-famous Coachella Valley, just outside Palm Springs.…
DARA Thailand
Those looking for a major change in scenery on their road to recovery needn’t look farther than DARA, a top-of-the-line…
Avery Lane
Introduction and Basic ServicesAvery Lane is a women’s residential treatment facility for substance abuse and dual diagnosis about 30 miles…
Dimensions Recovery Centers
Introduction and Basic ServicesLocated in beautiful Southern California, Dimensions Recovery Centers is an addiction and mental health network with four…
Valley Vista
Introduction and Basic ServicesWith two locations in Bradford and Vergennes, Vermont, Valley Vista is a CARF-accredited residential treatment facility for…