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What to Know When Encouraging Someone to go to Rehab

If you want to help someone overcome an addiction, whether it’s a friend, family member or employee, you need to understand what “getting help” actually looks like. It’s hard enough to confront someone about their problem. And it’s equally hard to navigate the conversation without making them feel defensive or…

Trafalgar Addiction Treatment CentresSeptember 12, 2019

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8 Interesting Statistics About Addiction and Mental Health

Addiction and mental health issues are more common than people realize. But because of the stigma attached to them, neither are talked about very often. This article examines some interesting data, primarily from Canada, that illustrates the prevalence of addiction and mental health issues, and illustrates why seeking help is…

Trafalgar Addiction Treatment CentresSeptember 4, 2019

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What is an Internet Addiction?

It seems like many of us are addicted to our phones or computers. And in fact, nearly 10% of us may be clinically addicted to the internet. A study from 2012 found that up to 8.2% of people were addicted to the internet. This study examined people’s tendency to use…

Trafalgar Addiction Treatment CentresAugust 28, 2019

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How to Address a Loved One’s Addiction ?

Most addicts don’t want help, because accepting help means admitting there’s a problem. It can therefore be difficult to convince an addict that attending a rehab treatment centre is necessary. This is a common challenge faced by friends and family members of those addicted to substances or destructive behaviours. When…

Trafalgar Addiction Treatment CentresAugust 21, 2019

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Helpful and Optional Resources of Addiction Recovery

When addressing a substance addiction, there are conventional methods of recovery that are usually applied. For example, someone addicted to alcohol may attend group sessions to discuss their problem; they may detox from alcohol; they may go to therapy sessions; or they may go to a Toronto rehab. These conventional…

Trafalgar Addiction Treatment CentresAugust 16, 2019

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Medical Detox: When, Why and How it Works

Detox has become something of a fad word. It’s used colloquially for diets, relationships and bad habits. But in a medical sense, to detoxify means to cut out something harmful from your body so that it can stabilize and recover. Often when we talk about detoxing, we’re referring to addictive…

Trafalgar Addiction Treatment CentresAugust 14, 2019

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How Technology is Being Used to Battle Addiction

The only thing that can make someone quit an addiction is the person themself. But there are a lot of resources out there to help, and some of them have origins rooted in technology. This isn’t to say that traditional methods for overcoming addiction, like therapy, are becoming obsolete. On…

Trafalgar Addiction Treatment CentresAugust 8, 2019

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What is Outpatient Rehab Treatment?

Most programs offered by a rehab centre require a client to live on site for a certain period of time. Outpatient treatment is different. An outpatient rehab program in Toronto is very similar to an inpatient or traditional, rehab program in Toronto. The client is provided with many of the…

Trafalgar Addiction Treatment CentresJuly 31, 2019

Addiction Psychology

What is a Behavioural Addiction?

We tend to think an addiction involves a substance, like cocaine or alcohol, but this isn’t always the case. Some addictions involve a behaviour. Behavioural addictions are less well understood than substance addictions. In the case of the latter, we assign the adjective ‘addictive’ to certain things. Smoking is addictive,…

Trafalgar Addiction Treatment CentresJuly 26, 2019

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The Importance of Family and Partner Therapy During Rehab

An addiction impacts more than just the addict. That’s why it’s important to include loved ones in the recovery process. Close friends, family members and partners are all affected by a person’s addiction. While this fact is often acknowledged, little is done to address it, and this is problematic for…

Trafalgar Addiction Treatment CentresJuly 24, 2019

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