Recovery

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How Do I Know Which Friends Will Hinder My Recovery?

Achieving sobriety can be an amazing first step on the path to recovery. Whether it be through inpatient or outpatient services like Choice House’s rehabilitation program or on your own through an independent support network, the decision and initial work that goes into acknowledging that you have an addiction disorder and are willing to take…
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What Should I Do While My Husband is in Rehab?

During your husband’s journey to recovery from substance use at a treatment facility, you may be wondering how you can help. It can be challenging watching your partner go into a treatment facility, knowing their treatment will be in the hands of people you don’t know. However, if you’ve chosen a good facility, then you…