What Does Recovery Mean to Me?
I am surrounded by recovery. I work int he field, I have recovery in my family and I enjoy a social life full of people in recovery. Which kind of recovery, you might ask. I am familiar with and share …
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WestBridge Blog: From the Newsletter
A Family Finds Hope at WestBridge
A family member’s perspective on treatment at WestBridge When I first contacted WestBridge, I was at my wit’s end. I knew we had to do something different this time. My son’s life was at stake. The admissions counselors were patient …
Danger in your Doctor’s Office: Prescribing Abuse
Over the last 10 years, an epidemic of abuse and addiction to opiates, stimulants, tranquilizers, sleep medication and non-opiate pain medication has occurred. In 2009, 16 million Americans age 12 and older took a prescription pain reliever, tranquilizer, stimulant or …
Engaging Participants with a Community Integration Program
In the early 1970s a new method of providing services to individuals living with serious mental illness was developed: Assertive Community Treatment. ACT has been extensively researched and and proved to have the best results for helping individuals engage in …
Ask the Doc: Mindfulness
The Mindful Recovery process unleashes a natural blooming of internal motivation to improve personal health, maintain sobriety, and develop social responsibility. Mindful Recovery is a voluntarily-maintained process characterized by the intention to refrain from harming oneself and others, and a …
Ask the Doc: Nutrition
Healthy nutrition and regular exercise are the best way to control weight in the general population, and also in people with dual diagnosis, who are at increased risk of becoming overweight and developing heart disease early. What are healthy principles …
Ask the Doc: Opioids
While opioids have relieved pain for millennia, people can become addicted. Doctors grew wary and laws restricted their prescription which unfortunately left many in needless distress. Pharmaceutical companies leapt into this complex clinical dilemma offering a simplistic and wrong solution: …
Ask the Doc: Why Is Family Work Such An Integral Part Of Treatment?
Traditional clinical training typically excludes the family from the treatment process. The thinking behind this is that the clinician and individual can more easily form a bond that is therapeutic and that the healing occurs within the context of that …
Ask the Doc: FASD
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders is an umbrella encompassing fetal alcohol effects, alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder, and alcohol-related birth defects. These occur to infants when mothers drink excessively in pregnancy and may include physical, mental, behavioral, and/or learning disabilities with possible lifelong …
Did You Know: Pharmageddon
Mary Woods, CEO of WestBridge and One Hour at a Time host talked with Barbara Krantz about the growing prescription drug abuse problem. Currently, more than 50 million Americans are prescription pill abusers, and every year 24,000 die of a …
WestBridge Meet & Greet
At WestBridge, we work with adult men and families from around the country and, in some cases, the world. One of the unique features of our model is our Meet & Greet service which allows us to deepen our assessment and begin building trust and engaging participants virtually in the pre-admission process.