I recently learned of an important website called DrugRehab.com. This is a comprehensive online resource funded by Advanced Recovery Systems in the United States. I use the word comprehensive very deliberately, because the quantity and quality of the information provided is both superb and incredibly valuable.The website’s mission, as stated in their ‘About Us’ section, is “to equip patients and families with the best information, resources and tools to overcome addiction and lead a lifelong recovery.”
Related Articles
Advanced Recovery Systems, which funds the website, utilizes a three part approach to treating addictions: therapeutic learning, cognitive healing, and medication assistance. This is a vital integration of three key ways to heal, and so often standard treatment approaches use one or two of these but not all three.
With treatment centres across the United States and a 24 hour helpline (1-844-809-1153), ARS and its partner website are committed to looking at the underlying causes of addiction, and to treating the mental illnesses that so often accompany and even lead to them.
Of particular interest to me is this article, https://www.drugrehab.com/co-occurring-disorder/bipolar/, which details the symptoms and experiences of being bipolar, explains the various subtypes of the disorder, and looks at causes and treatment. Most notably, it highlights one study which found that 48.5 % of Respondents Reported alcohol abuse and 43.9% reported drug abuse. Overall, the article notes that 60% of respondents reported substance abuse of some kind.
In these statistics, I think, is an opportunity for those of us who are bipolar and have struggled with addiction to forgive ourselves, to look perhaps a little more kindly at our decisions around substances and understand that they were made by a brain not functioning properly, and a soul just wanting peace. We all do the best we can, and to be bipolar and neither diagnosed nor properly treated is simply too much. All we were doing, with our alcohol or our drugs, was being human, taking our comforts, however inadequate and fleeting, where we could find them.
Please visit https://www.drugrehab.com and https://advancedrecoverysystems.com to learn more.
