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Category Sober Living

11 Mar

Personality Change When Drinking Alcohol: Is It Common?

Our daily research-backed readings teach you the neuroscience of alcohol, and our in-app Toolkit provides the resources and activities you need to navigate each challenge. Drinking will reduce the ability for the hippocampus to function properly, helping to explain why blackouts stifle the creation of memories. Almost half of the study sample not only had […]

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1 Mar

Anger and substance abuse: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Cognition-relaxation coping skills (CRCS; Deffenbacher & McKay, 2000) was chosen as the anger management protocol for four reasons. First, its coping skills approach fits conceptually into coping skills relapse prevention conceptualizations (Marlatt & Gordon, 1980; Witkiewitz & Marlatt, 2004). Moreover, meta-analyses (Beck & Fernandez, 1998; Del Vecchio & O’Leary, 2004; DiGuiseppe & Tafrate, 2003; Edmondson […]

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11 Nov

Programs for Those Experiencing Homelessness, Food Insecurity & Addiction

By successfully completing the program, Granada House Review clients learn to utilize their sobriety as a tool to effectively navigate and maintain valuable relationships with family, friends, employers and members of their communities. Those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders tend to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, […]

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