What to Expect in Inpatient Drug Rehab
Deciding to enter inpatient drug rehab is a significant step toward taking control of your life. While it may feel overwhelming and uncertain, understanding what to expect during your time in a residential treatment facility can help ease your anxiety and prepare you for the journey ahead. Comprehensive Assessment In inpatient drug rehab, you can […]
Strategies for Maintaining Long-Term Sobriety
Your recovery from addiction is a long game. Addiction can be treated but isn’t cured. You have to keep working at it to avoid its damaging influence. Fortunately, some resources can help with that. Serenity Treatment Center of Louisiana, for example, has an aftercare program dedicated to helping people who finished treatment continue to work […]
Beyond Detox: The Next Steps for Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
When you are ready to change your life for the better by giving up substance abuse, finding a treatment program is the right way to go. How you start treatment, though, is determined by your medical condition. If you take heavy substances like meth or heroin, you will likely start with a detox program. After […]
Finding Sobriety: The Journey from Alcoholism to Recovery
Recovery, the path to living a sober lifestyle, is the goal of every single person in treatment for substance abuse. Alcoholism is rampant for a variety of reasons, and you are not alone in its struggles or wanting to change your life. You can finish the journey from alcoholism to recovery, but you need help […]
About Graduate Rebecca (Video)
Rebecca, a graduate of the Serenity Treatment Center of Louisiana shares her story and her recovery journey to sobriety. She discusses how she came to get involved and made choices about using heroin. The escalation to hard drug use and what led to coming to Serenity Treatment Center. She describes that because of the education […]
When Drug Treatment is a Part of Penalty for Drug Possession
Rock bottom looks different for everyone. For some, it’s a thing that they did that makes them so ashamed that a life change is necessary. For others, it’s a charge of drug possession. Standing before a judge and having your future decided for you is a very powerful moment that helps people see the situation […]
Recovery from the Storm of Substance Abuse
Your life is changed forever once you fall into substance abuse. The impact that addiction has on your life, as well as the struggle to break free of it, will change you. By the time most people understand that they have a serious addiction, they have hit rock bottom. Substance abuse has already changed you […]
The No-Excuse Treatment Designed for Everyone (video)
Dionese Gerbrecht, administrator of the Serenity Treatment Center of Louisiana, shares her insight in this brief video of what makes the Center so special. As in many cases, it is the people who make a difference and fulfill the goal of the Serenity Treatment Center of Louisiana to provide outstanding addiction treatment designed for everyone. […]
TV Shows About the Opioid Problem
The opioid problem in the United States and many places around the world is still ongoing, but many of the details about how it started have come to light. With the revelations that the Sackler family is largely responsible for the widespread production and use of opioids despite the risks, TV, and film studios are […]
Nutrition Therapy Helps Addiction Recovery
Addiction recovery is a difficult process that aims to reshape the mind and the body to resist substances. Nutrition therapy helps as part of any addiction recovery plan. When you are focused only on the mental aspect of recovery rather than the physical after detox is finished, you miss an important part of what is […]
