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Addiction Recovery

What Happens to the Body When You Detox?

Learn about functional addiction, including its signs, stages, and how it affects an individual’s life, as well as how to receive treatment for this condition.

Addiction Recovery

What Does IOP Mean in Therapy?

Learn about functional addiction, including its signs, stages, and how it affects an individual’s life, as well as how to receive treatment for this condition.

Addiction Recovery

What is IOP Rehab? 

Learn about functional addiction, including its signs, stages, and how it affects an individual’s life, as well as how to receive treatment for this condition.

Addiction Recovery

How Effective Is Sober Living?

Learn about functional addiction, including its signs, stages, and how it affects an individual’s life, as well as how to receive treatment for this condition.

Addiction Recovery

Is Recovery the Same as Sobriety?

Learn about functional addiction, including its signs, stages, and how it affects an individual’s life, as well as how to receive treatment for this condition.

What is Aftercare in Recovery?

Learn about functional addiction, including its signs, stages, and how it affects an individual’s life, as well as how to receive treatment for this condition.

Addiction Recovery

What is a Functional Addiction?

Learn about functional addiction, including its signs, stages, and how it affects an individual’s life, as well as how to receive treatment for this condition.

Alcohol Addiction

Wet Brain Life Expectancy

Learn about the Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome life expectancy, a serious condition caused by chronic alcohol misuse and thiamine deficiency.

Drug Addiction

Impact of Drug Use On Oral Health

Learn about the drugs that cause dental problems and put you at risk for other problems that affect oral health. Santa Barbara Recovery can help.

Drug Addiction

Signs of a fentanyl overdose

Alcohol and autoimmune disease are two health conditions that are connected. Learn more about how alcohol affects the immune system, and how we can help.

Relapse Prevention

How to Recognize Relapse Warning Signs

As dreadful as it may be, relapse is a harsh reality of the recovery journey. When a person is on their recovery journey, the last thing they want to think about is how they’ll come back to a triggering behavior.

Sobriety

How to Stay Focused and Motivated During Early Sobriety

Embarking on the journey to sobriety is a monumental step, and we’re here to support you every step of the way. Early recovery is exciting and challenging, filled with new experiences and opportunities for personal growth. It’s important to celebrate each milestone, no matter how small, as it marks your progress and commitment to a healthier, happier life.

Alcoholism

How Does Intoxication Affect the Cardiovascular System?

Every time someone takes in an intoxicating substance, the body is affected adversely. The liver is affected primarily because it works as a detoxification system for the body, and the lungs and stomach are damaged if they’re the main recipients of the substance itself.

Anxiety Treatment

Anxiety in Winter: Is It Just Seasonal?

Feelings of sadness and stress are the typical symptoms a person thinks of when referring to anxiety. However, it’s much more complicated than that.

Alcohol Addiction

Does Drinking Affect Your Kidneys?

So you enjoy throwing back a few beers or glasses of wine on the weekends to unwind and de-stress. Most people drink occasionally without a problem. But did you know that excessive alcohol use over time could hurt one of your most vital organs, your kidneys? Your kidneys filter waste and excess fluid from your blood to keep your body in balance.

Addiction Recovery

Adventure Therapy: The Benefits of Recovery Activities

There are many different components to an effective addiction recovery program. This is because various factors help cause a person to develop a substance addiction. For example, not taking care of one’s physical body by not sleeping can trigger the appearance of a mental illness that one has a predisposition to have. Such a mental illness can then cause one to start to abuse substances to cope. This can then lead to the development of a co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse.