How do you know when it’s time for treatment? Many people feel fear and shame about using substances, and as time goes on, they may normalize substance use even through increasing consequences – leading both the people using and their loved ones to ask – when is it time to go to treatment? While each…
Celebrating Father’s Day after Addiction Treatment Maybe you weren’t expecting your father to be here for another Father’s Day. Maybe you have never had the opportunity to spend a Father’s Day together in the past. Drug addiction is a debilitating condition which takes the lives of many, and ruins relationships in the process. For that…
Changing Tides Treatment will be offering a virtual recovery option for patients to receive traditional outpatient, IOP and PHP services via ZOOM, a HIPAA compliant secure video conferencing service. This virtual recovery service will be offered “at” our Ventura and Malibu locations. This option will be provided for patients who are at high risk of…
Sober St. Patrick’s Day For millions of Americans, St. Patrick’s day is a time of merriment, and for some, perhaps an excuse to go a bit overboard when it comes to alcohol. But the day has serious risks; during St. Patrick’s Day holidays from 2006-2010, more than 700 people were killed in crashes involving drunk…
NEW YEAR’S AND ADDICTION RECOVERY The promise of the New Year makes optimists out of most of us. We feel empowered by the symbolic new beginning that it offers and want to reinvent ourselves. At the very least, we identify and address the areas of our lives we think we can improve. New Year’s resolutions…