Addiction is a chronic condition and relapse is common. It’s hard to know exactly how common, but the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that about 40 to 60 percent of people who get treatment for a substance use disorder relapse within a year. Although relapse is common, it should be avoided if at all […]
What fills your cup?! I recently read an article about getting rid of toxic things in your life. It made me think about what ACTUALLY fills my cup. And, on the flip side, what drains it. A few things that have filled my cup recently: sunshine, tea date with Aloha, trying a new Pilates […]
Exercise is one of the most important lifestyle habits to adopt when you’re recovering from addiction. There’s a lot of research showing that regular exercise reduces stress and anxiety, improves mood, and reduces relapse risk. Exercise also helps reduce some of the physical health risks of excessive drinking and drug use. Adopting even a moderate […]
Sobriety is no easy feat. Voluntary work is needed to get there and a focus on doing the work, one step at a time. One of the biggest fears of going into substance use treatment is facing life sober. These fears are not without warrant. Relapse statistics are alarming. However, it is possible to learn […]
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a condition that massively increases your risk of addiction. One study estimates that about 78% of people with BPD will develop a substance use disorder at some point in their lives, compared to only about 8% of the general population. However, BPD is a fairly obscure disorder. Major depression and […]
Nearly 19 million children in the United States have at least one parent with a substance use disorder (SUD), according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics on May 12. A significant number of those children have a parent whose SUD is moderate or severe as opposed to mild, the study finds. Witnessing […]
Since it was introduced in November, the artificial intelligence model known as ChatGPT has garnered substantial interest from the media and the general public. ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot developed by OpenAI that can write and debug computer programs, compose music, teleplays, fairy tales, and student essays, answer test questions (sometimes better […]
Season’s greetings from the Foundry clinical team! In a recent conversation with a friend, he asked me to pick my favorite holiday. I quickly responded, “New Year’s Day!” My answer comes from my annual practice of taking time to reflect on the past twelve months. Within that process, I stop to take stock of our […]
Check out the Heavyweight podcast featuring our very own Chief Operations Officer, Scott Kindel, as he shares his remarkable journey from addiction to recovery—including a valuable missing piece of his family’s history. About the podcast: Heavyweight is a Gimlet Media production that explores a moment from a person’s past that they wish they could change. […]
Pharmaceutical innovations continue improving the quality and longevity of life, even when beneficial side effects of these medicines are discovered unexpectedly. Numerous medications created to treat specific illnesses have found new applications because they were found to be effective at addressing completely different problems. One example is Prazosin, a medication originally developed to treat hypertension. […]
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