Exercise & Mental Health Benefits: What are the mental health benefits of exercise? Exercise is not just about aerobic capacity and muscle size. Sure, exercise can improve your physical health and your physique, trim your waistline, improve your sex life, and even add years to your life. But that’s not what motivates most people to…
We want to talk about alcohol and its effect on our health, lives, and relationships. Undoubtedly, most people are aware that alcohol can cause stress and conflict in relationships. However, the general public may not understand the extent. Often, being close to alcoholics can change the relationship dynamic, and it’s essential to know how that…
This year’s campaign: Get your YOU back Have you been stuck on pause? Many of us feel that way. Things have been a little unpredictable, meaning many of us have been in limbo, not knowing what to do next. No more stop-starting. Let’s press go! Here’s a journey we can take to a new destination. That’s where…
BASIC IOP REQUIREMENTS The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Counselor’s Treatment Manual outlines a sample schedule that gives an idea of what you can expect if you or someone you know begins treatment at an IOP. This is only a sample, and your program may differ depending on your needs. Weeks 1-4 Weeks 5-16…
6 Benefits of IOP Programs If you’ve come to terms with the fact that you’re struggling with a dependency – whether it’s alcohol, opiates, or another substance – and want to get clean, you will need to decide if you are going to commit to an inpatient or outpatient program. As the name suggests, an…
Our new Tele-health Program Changing Tides Treatment will be providing our patients who receive out patient, IOP and PHP services with a hybrid- virtual program via ZOOM, a HIPAA compliant secure video conferencing service, this is Tele-health. This service will be offered “at” our location in Ventura, CA. We have made this decision because we…
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…
It’s prohibitively difficult to access mental-health services in rural America. That’s because, relative to urban areas, rural counties have so few mental-health professionals. The majority of nonmetropolitan counties in the U.S. don’t have a psychiatrist, and almost half lack a psychologist. The paucity has resulted in a public-health crisis—rural Americans suffering from a psychiatric condition…