by westcoastrc | Oct 19, 2017 | Medication-Assisted Treatment, Recovery Tools
The Facts About MAT: Medication-Assisted Treatment With the United States facing an epidemic of deaths due to opioid and other drug overdoses, the use of medication in treating substance use and addiction disorders is a growing reality.?Unfortunately, many people...
by westcoastrc | Oct 15, 2017 | Blog, Curated Articles, In the News, Recovery Tools
Development of Positive Relationships Reduces Risk of Substance Abuse, Drug Addiction in North County School District Traumatic experiences are always damaging, but they can be particularly devastating for children, most of whom have yet to develop the coping skills...
by westcoastrc | Sep 24, 2017 | Blog, Individual Therapy, Meditation, Recovery Tools
Mindful on the Go: Meditation Techniques for Today?s Modern Lifestyles It?s no secret that the pace of modern life is speeding up. Recent anthropological studies have concluded that, in many pre-agrarian societies, people worked as little as four hours per day, and...
by westcoastrc | Sep 20, 2017 | Blog, Recovery Tools
What is Mindfulness? West Coast RC offers a mixture of traditional and holistic therapies for the treatment of substance abuse disorders. One of the common points between every form of treatment, however, is a strong basis in certain ancient Eastern philosophies....
by westcoastrc | Sep 18, 2017 | Blog, Individual Therapy, Recovery Tools
A Place for Everyone: Individual Therapy in Holistic Addiction Recovery Traditional environments for addiction treatment, such as 12-step programs and intensive inpatient therapy, are historically notorious for having high relapse rates. Within such settings,...
by westcoastrc | Aug 30, 2017 | Gender-Responsive Programming, Recovery Tools
Effective Counseling Provides a Sounding Board for Personal Progress It?s no secret that many people are uncomfortable with the idea of sharing their deeper thoughts with another. It taps into a variety of fundamental human anxieties: the fear of being wrong, on a...