Above & Beyond Adds Women’s Trauma Group to Provide Safe, Supportive Healing SpaceAbove and Beyond Family Recovery Center has continued to grow its program by offering new therapy groups based on its clients’ needs. For women seeking help for substance use issues, many of their addiction behaviors developed as coping skills to block out trauma …
Being a source of support for the homeless and at-need population in Chicago, Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center has always been on the lookout for programs it can add to its already impressive line of care. Housing, job, and domestic violence referrals by nature are often primary or secondary issues that are learned upon …
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By Eric Ridenour When you find yourself in a new community, with little to nothing, you need everything you can gather just to get by. It is not easy, and the sheer volume of picking up the pieces of life and getting yourself together can take what seems like forever. It can be such a …
By Eric Ridenour There seems to be a regular debate in sobriety circles on whether sobriety time counts while you are in prison. Some say your first day sober is your first day out of jail, others will count time while in jail. Here we look at both lines of reasoning and help you decide. …
New research has identified a protein tied to structural changes that take place in one of the brain’s reward centers after too much drinking. Source: Medical News Today
What is hypopnea and how does it differ from sleep apnea? What are the risk factors of hypopnea, how may it be prevented, and what are the complications? Source: Medical News Today
An immunotherapy and targeted therapy both promise to bring closer the day when melanoma is a disease that people live with instead of die from. Source: Medical News Today
Forskolin is a weight loss supplement that recently experienced a surge in popularity, but does it really work? We look at the benefits and risks. Source: Medical News Today
In this article, learn about the advantages and disadvantages of donating blood, including how it affects the body, how the process works, and preparation. Source: Medical News Today
Benefits of developing a strong mental image of yourself as a non-drinker Pete Soderman, author of Powerless No Longer A few years ago, when I decided to quit smoking following a major heart attack, one of the techniques that made it easier was seeing myself as a nonsmoker. I visualized a person with fresh breath, no …
