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Addiction Therapy vs. Treatment Programs

For anyone seeking help to overcome addiction, it is essential to understand the difference between addiction therapy and treatment programs. Both are necessary for recovery, but they have different focuses and approaches. Call 844.540.0357 to speak with someone from Painted Desert Recovery’s New Harmony, Utah, addiction therapy center about addiction therapy vs. treatment and how…

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Women’s Trauma Can Negatively Fuel Addiction

If you experience or witness certain intense events, you may develop a lingering, damaging trauma reaction. For many reasons, this happens to women considerably more than it happens to men. Far too often, women exposed to serious trauma develop problems with substance abuse and addiction. To recover from these issues, women often need help from…

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How We Implement Trauma Therapy to Addiction Recovery

The effects of trauma can be lifelong without proper treatment. Sufferers may contend with fearfulness, angry outbursts, chronic anxiety and depression, and insomnia. This greatly increases the risk of developing addiction since self-medication is a popular response to dealing with trauma. You can heal from a painful past and substance use disorder concurrently with trauma…

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How Effective Is Experiential Therapy?

Experiential therapy adds another layer to your addiction treatment at Painted Desert Recovery in New Harmony, Utah. While most addiction therapy approaches involve talk therapy in individual or group sessions, experiential therapy provides a nonverbal way to express your feelings and begin the healing process. If you are battling addiction issues, experiential therapy can be…