Great Oaks Recovery Center Blog
The Great Oaks blog includes both informative and personal articles related to addiction, recovery, alcoholism, and so much more. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us anytime at (877) 977-3268.
How to Encourage Your Loved One to Enter Recovery
Forcing someone we love into residential recovery or treatment isn’t a viable, effective, or legal option. Even though addiction is a disease, we cannot make the decision for someone else to get treatment. They have to acknowledge their illness and be willing to...
Journaling: An Alternative Way to Support Your Sobriety
The recovery process often is accompanied by feelings of loneliness, depression, and confusion. Counseling, group therapy sessions, and both virtual and in-person support groups may prove to be beneficial for most, but it’s important to have free, easy tools that you...
Endocarditis Care in Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Many people struggling with addiction suffer from an array of health problems. Among them may be endocarditis, a cardiac disease that typically affects those with heart defects, heart valve damage, or a history of IV drug use. Let’s take a deeper look into...
Women, Addiction, and Stigma
Dependency: Examining Key Differences Both men and women are equally as likely to develop a substance use disorder. However, women face more social judgement regarding this issue. To better understand this inequality, let’s examine the four key differences between the...
COVID-19 Doesn’t Have to Compromise Care: Recovery for the Immunocompromised During the Pandemic
Immunocompromised people have a weakened immune system in comparison to the rest of the population. Their bodies may experience a compromised defense system for an array of reasons: cancer, cancer treatment and therapies, genetic diseases, autoimmune diseases,...
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