addiction therapy for families

Addiction is a Family Affair

For many of our clients, their biggest regret about addiction is the destruction it has caused in their marriages, families, and relationships. According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD), “Addiction is a family disease that stresses the family to the breaking point, impacts the stability of the home, the family’s unity, …

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Parental Guilt in Early Recovery

Often people come to treatment at AToN Center who are also parents. This is a gut wrenching, guilt provoking experience for many parents seeking treatment. The shame and guilt is so intense that it sometimes prevents people from seeking the help they so desperately need. We at AToN Center understand the difficulty that this predicament …

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Cross Addiction Treatment

Cross addiction means exchanging, substituting, or transferring one harmful dependency for another. Addiction is a learned behavior. Individuals learn that they can avoid negative states or achieve positive states by taking a substance or engaging in a certain behavior. Once the substance or behavior has been removed, there is often a tendency to seek out …

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