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Julie speaks of her son with a touch of wonder in her voice, “I still can’t believe how great Jack is doing!” Her son completed the program at Gulf Breeze Recovery almost three years ago. All his adult life, and most of his adolescence had been a struggle both for him and his parents.
I’m not the kind of person to get too spiritual, says Reggie, a guest at Gulf Breeze Recovery’s non-12 step holistic drug rehab, but going to Gulf Breeze Recovery is the best thing to ever happen to me.
image of woman facing camera for blog article entitled “Sky’s Story of addiction” for Gulf Breeze Recovery non 12 step holistic drug and alcohol treatment program
According to the Surgeon General’s Report published in 2016 “20.8 million people aged 12 or older in the United States had a substance use disorder. That number is similar to the number of people who suffer from diabetes and more than 1.5 times the annual prevalence of all cancers combined (14 million).”
I attended Gulf Breeze Recovery in 2016 after over a decade of failed attempts to get clean at 12-step drug treatment centers. I was an IV drug user, and I thought that if anyone truly understood how powerful my cravings were, then surely they would see why it was impossible for me to stay sober. That’s why one of the most valuable insights I gained during my time in Gulf Breeze was my relationship to cravings.
Mary was a fun-loving girl. In college, she started drinking and experimenting with drugs, and it was part of the college adventure. She believed that she was in control and that everything was okay – until it wasn’t. “You are a functioning member of society,” she explains, “until one day you’re not!”
What can I do? It’s a tough question that faces almost everyone who has a loved one in the grips of addiction. You watch them change into a person that you feel you don’t even know anymore.
“I just use for fun, recreationally. Don’t worry, I won’t get addicted.” Maybe you have heard someone say this, or maybe you have said it yourself. But some substances, including …
Family members often lament that their loved ones who are addicted could turn their life around if they could just see what they are doing to themselves. Why can’t they …
Having a loved one with addiction hurts the entire family. Family members want their addicted loved one to just be “normal” again, to just be themselves again. Sometimes they wonder …