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How To Make Recovery Your First Priority
Recovery should be the most important focus of your day after achieving sobriety through addiction treatment, so here’s how to make recovery your first priority….
Recovery For Mental Health Is a Change Of Habit
Sometimes the best thing to do for a solid improvement in your mental health during recovery is a change of habit. Learn how your habits and routines affect your wellbeing….
What Level Of Care Do I Need For Eating Disorder Treatment?
For individuals struggling with an unhealthy relationship with food, proper care from a reputable eating disorder treatment program can help improve mental and physical health….
Choosing Wisely in Recovery with 3 Easy Steps
Recovery is about kicking your addiction, but it’s also about learning self control and decision making. Choosing wisely in recovery can be a lot easier if you stick to these three easy steps….
Why Put Off Treatment any Longer? Overcome Protest and Procrastination
Addiction is a dangerous and chronic condition that should be treated immediately. There’s no sense in procrastination when it comes to addiction treatment….
Maintaining The Recovery Momentum Post-Treatment
After you have gone through an addiction recovery program, it’s important to maintain that momentum for the weeks and months and years that follow in order to stay sober and clean….
Why Should Treatment For Addiction Take A Long Time?
Addiction takes a long time to develop and therefore requires a sufficient length of time to fully heal as well. So don’t rush your recovery, do the work to make sobriety a new lifestyle….
Bringing The Family Together After Treatment: Family Dinner
Family time promotes the integration of recovery and a newly sober loved one. Creating a strong foundation in the family home helps a loved one create a strong foundation in their personal life and their new life of recovery….
Longer Addiction Treatment – Higher Recovery Rate
New study shows longer addiction treatment significantly improves long term recovery rates. Castle Craig’s patient outcome studies show a 45% better abstinence rate….
Study Reviews Rehab Treatment Model
The review’s author concludes that there are very few treatment services apart from Castle Craig Hospital that can show academic and theoretical backing for their treatment model….
Starting Addiction Treatment
Your addiction therapist will devise a personalised treatment plan to take you through the process of recovery from alcohol, drug or gambling addiction….
Helping Someone Who Wants to Leave Rehab Treatment Early
It’s a huge decision to come into inpatient rehab treatment. Prof Chick, leading researcher in the addiction field, advises on what happens when patients ask to leave addiction treatment early….
NICE Guidelines – Making the Case for Inpatient Treatment
NICE’s guidelines on inpatient and residential treatment cannot be summarised into a simple rule. Read more here….
You don’t need to be Religious for 12 Step Treatment
In order to achieve long term abstinence, people need a sense of purpose. You don’t have to be religious to participate in the 12 Step programme or fellowships like AA….
Vulnerability in Treating Addiction
Vulnerability follows the alcoholic or chemically dependent patient at every step in the addiction treatment process. Read more on how vulnerability helps recovery….
Focussing on Trauma in Addiction Treatment
Treating an addict’s traumatic past may be a critical factor in their recovery. Castle Craig has been treating addicted people with trauma for 25 years….
Addiction Treatment in France
An addiction therapist in Paris talks about the developement of AA and 12 step based programs in France. Castle Craig Hospital welcomes patients from France….
A New EU Directive: Reimbursment for Treatment Abroad
A new EU directive came into force, allowing EU citizens to claim the costs of healthcare treatment in other EU member states….
How to Sabotage Your Addiction Treatment
Read a list of self-sabotage thoughts that can block addiction treatment and learn how to deal with them. As with all recovery, honesty is the keyword….
Tele-counselling in addiction treatment
Castle Craig Rehab develops tele-counselling and other tele-based services for the provision of continuing care addiction treatment services….
Is community addiction treatment working?
Read more on “community treatment” and the new survey showing that community addiction treatment is struggling to keep up in Scotland’s most deprived areas….
Is the NHS Trying to Kill Rehab Clinics?
Drugs and alcohol are in the news again. We argue that addicts should be offered rehab treatment and dealt with by the health service rather than the legal system….
Does Outpatient Addiction Treatment Work?
Tom Bruce, the Deputy Head Therapist at Castle Craig explains why inpatient addiction treatment programmes work, especially for those with other underlying issues….
Pre Frontal Cortex & Neurogenesis
Research shows pre-frontal cortex is significantly damaged in drug and alcohol abusers and addicts. Read more about the effects here….
