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Five Ways to Cope with a Family Member’s Substance Use
Self-care is an essential part of responding to substance use disorders in Family therapy, yet it’s something that often gets neglected. As the demands of managing a family member with an SUD increase, it’s not uncommon to focus all of our energy on the crisis...
The Rising Substance Use Risk for Healthcare Providers in the Covid Era
When your loved one is a healthcare provider during a pandemic, it’s expected they will focus on treating patients and reducing the risk of spreading coronavirus and spend far less time considering how Covid may be affecting their own physical and mental health....
Letting Go is the Key to Freedom
Cara O’Neill, MS., RMHCI | Director of Alumni Services We often hear that addiction is a family disease. I have encountered many people that have a hard time accepting this. People with substance use disorders (SUDs) tend to believe that addiction recovery is all...
Tips for Coping with Anxiety
Dr. Stacy Grossman, Psy.D. - Senior Clinical Director Many of our learned behaviors to cope with anxiety tend to feel right at the moment, but they are often not beneficial in the long term. One of the most common coping techniques people use is avoidance. Avoiding...
How Personal Loss Affects Addiction
In a year where deaths related to Covid-19 are fast-growing and routinely compared to past American disasters, it’s likely we all personally know someone affected by the virus. There’s no question the level of loss and grief in our midst is at an unprecedented level...
12-Step Recovery: Getting Through Changing Times
By Bart Ross | Recovery & Alumni Services Coordinator Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was in its infancy when WWII erupted in 1941. Thousands of men volunteered or were drafted for the war. The home AA office in New York, which later became the General Service Office...
What Makes Family Support Essential to Recovery
Any successful attempt to overcome a significant challenge in life comes back to who’s playing on your team. The significant “players” in the recovery process are the multigenerational family members of the patients who begin treatment for a substance use disorder and...
Healing the Family System at Hanley Center
Like any chronic illness, addiction is a disease that affects all family members. As with any devastating disease, family participants may have the opportunity to choose to either support the illness or focus on supporting recovery from it. Although you didn’t cause...
Substance Use Recovery for the First Responder
As a first responder living with a substance use disorder, neglecting self-care can affect both you and the people you’re paid to serve. In fact, first responders often become so used to serving their communities in life-saving roles that they may overlook their own...
Substance Use Disorders Among Older Adults
When the Covid-19 pandemic began, much attention was put on a higher risk for older adults to contract the virus and since then a secondary health impact on this age group has become clear. It comes from the impact of social isolation on seniors, many who are living...
Brain Health and Wellness
Dr. Stacy Grossman, Psy.D. - Assistant Clinical Director Brain health is essential to our overall health and wellness. Our brain is what makes us who we are and dictates how we behave, how we think, and how we feel. Keeping our brain healthy is one of the most...
First Responders in Pandemic Times
For many people, the news of a pandemic led to increasing feelings of anxiety as our health, jobs, and normal lives were left hanging in the balance. For first responders, these concerns were only the tip of the iceberg. In the early stages of COVID-19, many...
LIFE, DEATH, HUMILITY AND FREEDOM
Bart Ross | Recovery & Alumni Services Coordinator A common thought we alcoholic folks have is the idea that life will be easy when we get sober. This thought is a half-truth. Easier? Perhaps. But I like to say it in a different way. Sobriety provides a new...
The Starting Line of Substance Use Disorder
Long before someone is diagnosed with a substance use disorder, multiple factors have been forming a point in their life where addiction first becomes possible. We’ll call that point a “starting line” here as a way of creating a visual for you. Today, let’s look at...
Stimulant Drugs: An Intensive Guide
In the age of the opioid epidemic which focuses heavily on depressant drugs (which slow the systems of the brain and body) it can be easy to forget about stimulant drugs and stimulant drug addiction, which is still an ongoing crisis around the world. What Are...
Why Medical Students Must Start Learning More About Substance Use Disorders
Preparing medical students for what they will face on the job is the entire mission of medical school, yet substance use disorders (SUDs) may not get equal attention during those critically important years. It’s inevitable that medical students—who will eventually...
Team Spotlight – Vanessa Brenner, LMHC, QS
Vanessa Brenner LMHC,QS — Program Director, Center for Men's Recovery Vanessa has been working in the treatment industry since 2011 and says with certainty that this is the best team she has worked alongside. As a valuable part of the Hanley family since...
Team Spotlight – Melissa R. Eklund, MS, LMHC
Melissa R. Eklund MS, LMHC – Program Director, Hanley Center Counseling Melissa earned both her Bachelor of Science in psychology and her Master of Science in mental health counseling from Nova Southeastern University while focusing on the topic of addictions....
From Relapse to Retraining the Brain
As the brain plays an important role in beginning and sustaining recovery, a focus on how to retrain the brain after years of drug use is important. For some people needing recovery, this may come as a surprise when their belief may be a brain damaged by substance use...
Are Older People Less Prone to Addiction?
As a middle-aged adult thinking about the effects on aging on a parent, addiction may not be one of the topics that comes to mind first yet it can be a very real threat to the health of a senior citizen. You may have ignored some warning signs of an addiction in your...
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