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How to Identify Healthy Coping Mechanisms for Addiction

Coping entails tolerating or adjusting to negative realities or life events while maintaining your emotions and self-image. Humans instinctively create coping mechanisms to adapt to stressful situations. Thus, individuals in drug and alcohol addiction recovery need to pay special attention to developing and using positive coping mechanisms. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), a…

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California Transitional Addiction Treatment

During residential treatment at a rehab center in California, you will undergo various addiction treatment programs and addiction therapies that give you the foundation for recovery.  Among other things, rehab provides structure and guidance. At an addiction treatment center, you receive round the clock support in an environment conducive to addiction recovery, with peers also…