Recovery Blog
Stonegate Center’s recovery blog covers everything you need to know about drug and alcohol addiction, mental health, addiction treatments, recovery and sober living.
12-Week Community-Based Wellness Program
At Stonegate Center, we choose to implement a holistic approach to the disease of addiction. This type of treatment is why Stonegate Center’s Wellness Program takes health and healing above and beyond by treating the physical, mental, social and spiritual sides of the...
Facing the Disease of Addiction with Acceptance and Not Blame
When someone is diagnosed with the disease of addiction, having met the criteria necessary for the diagnosis to apply, questions immediately arise. One may ask who is to blame, such as a parent who questions if they are the reason for their child’s diagnosis or the...
Denial is Deadly
Denial is defined as avoiding the awareness of some painful aspect of reality by negating sensory data. Now, if that sounds like the definition from the back of some old, dusty Psychology textbook, you’re not wrong! In less confusing terms, denial is a defense...
Addiction in TV: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
It’s that time of the year where the weather turns cooler and the wind picks up dried red leaves off the ground; the time where you can buy supplies for three different holidays (at least!) in the span of four isles at Walmart; when almost everything you could eat...
Back Pain Medication and Addiction
Back pain. Those two words together send shivers – or rather a lightning bolt of discomfort – down my spine as I write this article. Ranked as the third most common reason for doctor’s office visits, back pain is the single leading cause of workplace disability...
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