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The Best Movies About Addiction and Recovery
Movies have the power to transport viewers to other worlds, but they can also accurately reflect real life experiences like addiction and recovery. Watching accurate depictions of addiction and recovery can inspire understanding for those unfamiliar with addiction while also giving those in recovery a chance to commiserate and contemplate their own struggles. An added…
How to Make Friends During Treatment
Choice House offers men who are struggling with addiction disorders and excessive substance misuse receive help from experienced staff to achieve long term sobriety. If you are seeking addiction recovery treatment, this may sound like an impossibility. But trust us when we tell you that long term sobriety is no fabled myth and is a…
The Benefits of Group Therapy and Support Groups
Not all substance abuse or addictive personality disorders involve co-occuring mental health issues. However, a decent majority do involve underlying mental health disorders that have been left untreated. In many instances, depression or anxiety either from trauma or post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been left untreated which leads to self-medication through substance abuse. These…
What Happens During a Family Program?
Choice House is unique in its set up for addiction recovery treatment as it has both inpatient and outpatient services, as well as a sober living campus. Not only can we help recovery patients achieve and maintain sobriety through either 90 day inpatient services or our intensive outpatient program, but we also can assist men…
Art and Music Therapy
Choice House uses a variety of therapeutic modalities to increase the potential success of recovery patients in maintaining sobriety. Of course, each individual’s recovery process is different and, as such, Choice House is dedicated to providing a litany of therapy options to ensure and improve the success rate of recovery patients. We feel that once…
Helping Others in Treatment
The 12-Step method to recovery developed by Alcoholics Anonymous has a proven track record of improving the lives of addicts and helping them to achieve and maintain a sober lifestyle. Getting sober is the first step on a path to a new and healthier lifestyle, but it is important to remember that the work does…
What Are Some Must-Dos in Boulder, Colorado?
For the uninitiated, a cursory view of addiction recovery treatments and rehab centers might have you convinced that it is all work, work, work and no play. It might even be a little intimidating with all the talk about learning new coping mechanisms, improving self care, and undergoing different varieties of therapeutic treatment methods. We…
How Long Should I Stay in Treatment?
It would be a huge comfort to recovery patients and their families, as well as a great boon to the addiction recovery medical community, if there were a single, definitive method of treatment for substance use disorders. Much of the struggle in addiction recovery could be resolved if a doctor could reset your addiction the…
Returning to Your Normal Life
Choice House offers an extensive 90 day in-house treatment program to provide recovery patients with a solid foundation and the tools necessary to re-enter the world. These tools provide a solid footing to jump-start your new sober life, but arguably no amount of preparation could accurately depict the experience of re-entering your “normal” life while…