Not drinking when everyone else is having some alcohol can be very difficult and particularly dangerous for someone who has just checked out of a sober living house. After all, isn’t drinking condoned and expected during Christmas and New Year’s Eve? The holidays can...

For those in recovery, even joyous occasions such as Christmas as well as other holidays may present as tempting and difficult times. Maintaining sobriety after all, particularly Los Angeles sober living, is never easy, especially if one had just come from treatment...

Gender-specific recovery for men focuses on the recovery from addiction in the setting of a sober living house. It utilizes the characteristics most common to men to help them recover in a transitional living setting away from women, as men and women tend to face...

Sober House, a television show that premiered on January 15, 2009, is a spin-off of the popular reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. The former chronicles the difficulties of various celebrities who are essentially recovering addicts and alcoholics. Season 1 of...

Transitional living may be something new to you. It certainly is not a common phrase to hear. Those who have been in rehab or those who have family members or friends who have been in rehab may be more familiar with it. But it really is a simple concept, one that is...

It is hard to understand how challenging it is to get sober if you have not experienced it for yourself. The rehabilitation centers can only do so much to remove the toxins caused by either alcohol or drugs, but ultimately, the road to recovery starts once you decide...

People find different ways of dealing with stress. Unfortunately, those who do not have a good support system find themselves in debilitating situations like being addicted to drugs or becoming alcohol dependent. They then have to spend much time in rehabilitation...

What is the next step after your stint in a rehabilitation center?  Sometimes, it can be difficult after following a structured routine in a rehab facility and then you come home and it is a totally different culture and environment. There are cases when this return...

Regain Your Sobriety in a Sober Living House Sober living means that you want to be clean and sober after being in treatment for either alcohol or drugs. The “house” part actually means that you are going to be living in a “commune” with people who are in the same...

It is not easy going straight to your home right after you leave your rehabilitation center. Yes, you may have gotten rid of the alcohol or the drugs while you were in rehab, but what happens when you get back to your old life and you still become tempted by all these...