Rehab

It was recently discovered through research that the best way to lose weight and eat healthy is to keep a food journal.  I have experienced this myself.  Keeping track of everything I ate during a day helped me keep track of how much, or how little protein I was taking in and looking up the […]

The Academy at NTS is a unique program combining drug and alcohol treatment with college classes.  The concept originally is unique in that originally, when one of the first college programs in a drug rehab was created in 1997 at Sober Living By The Sea, the drug rehab industry was not interested in the idea

Maybe not all people in drug treatment during Christmas time are Christians, but many still celebrate Christmas in one way or another.  Spending Christmas in Drug Rehab can be very depressing, but it doesn’t have to be.  It’s just another day, and addiction treatment facilities do their best to make Christmas in drug rehab enjoyable,

There are schemas and scripts when it comes to memory. A schema is an organized, structured set of information about a concept, theme, or person. Schemas involve categorization of any type of information in the world (ex: hospital, patients, nurses, etc.). Scripts are schemas for an event in the world. For example a restaurant script

At Northbound we do weekly meditation groups using a specially designed meditation exercise I put together for clients in drug and alcohol rehab. After sifting through hundreds of meditation books, CD’s, and internet resources, I could not find a meditation that was suitable to use in a drug and alcohol treatment facility. Many of the