Treatment Issues
Addictive Disorders
In the early days of the recovery movement, the founders of AA recognized that “more will be revealed.” More has been revealed. Substance abuse treatment stands at the edge of a remarkable revolution spurred on by dedicated researchers, compassionate clinicians, and the enthusiastic demands of people in early recovery for treatment that is compassionate, respectful, and effective.
Alcohol Abuse
For many individuals, the specifics about alcoholism are not comprehensible. What is alcoholism, precisely? How does it vary from alcohol abuse?
Cocaine Addiction
The word "cocaine" refers to the drug in both a powder (cocaine) and crystal (crack) form. It is made from the coca plant and causes a short-lived high that is immediately followed by opposite, intense feelings of depression, edginess, and a craving for more of the drug.
Crack Addiction
Crack is the street name given to the freebase form of cocaine that has been processed from the powdered cocaine hydrochloride form to a smokable substance. The term "crack" refers to the crackling sound heard when the mixture is smoked.
Heroin
Heroin is an illegal, extremely addictive drug. It is both the most abused and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seedpod of selected varieties of poppy plants.
Marijuana Addiction
Marijuana - frequently called pot, grass, reefer, weed, herb, mary jane, or mj - is a greenish-gray combination of the dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of Cannabis Sativa, the hemp plant.
Meth Addiction
Methamphetamine is generally known as "speed," "meth," and "chalk." The smoked form is often referred to as "ice," "crystal," "crank," and "glass." It is a white, odorless, bitter-tasting crystalline powder that easily dissolves in water or alcohol.
Opiate Drug Addiction
Concern about the abuse of prescription painkillers has risen dramatically in the U.S. Of particular concern is the abuse of pain medications containing opiates (also known as narcotic analgesics), marketed under such brand names as Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet, Demerol, and Darvon.
Dual Diagnosis
A person who has both an alcohol or drug problem and an emotional/psychiatric problem is said to have a dual diagnosis. To recover fully, the person needs treatment for both problems.
Anorexia
Anorexia Nervosa is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss.
Anorexia Nervosa in Males
Anorexia Nervosa is a severe, life-threatening disorder in which the individual refuses to maintain a minimally normal body weight, is intensely afraid of gaining weight, and exhibits a significant distortion in the perception of the shape or size of his body, as well as dissatisfaction with his body shape and size.
Anorexia, Bulimia, & Binge Eating Disorder
Eating Disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder include extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues.
Anorexia, Bulimia, & Binge Eating Disorder
Eating Disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder include extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues.
Causes of Eating Disorders
While eating disorders may begin with preoccupations with food and weight, they are most often about much more than food.
Eating Concerns and Oral Health
Dietary habits can and do play a role in oral health. Everyone has heard from their dentist that eating too much sugar can lead to cavities, but did you know that high intake of acidic "diet" foods can have an equally devastating effect on your teeth?
Enhancing Male Body Image
Recognize that bodies come in all different shapes and sizes. There is no one "right" body size. Your body is not, and should not, be exactly like anyone else's. Try to see your body as a facet of your uniqueness and individuality.
Every Body is Different
It is important to remember that every body is different. We all have different genetics. Even if everyone started eating the same things and did the same amount of exercise for a whole year, we would not all look the same at the end of the year. This is because each person’s genetics influence their bone structure, body size, shape, and weight differently.
Health Consequences of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are real, complex, and devastating conditions that can have serious consequences for health, productivity, and relationships.
Laxative Abuse: Some Basic Facts
Laxative abuse is serious and dangerous often resulting in a variety of health complications and sometimes causing life-threatening risks.
Bingeing/Purging
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is a type of eating disorder not otherwise specified and is characterized by recurrent binge eating without the regular use of compensatory measures to counter the binge eating.
Bulimia
Bulimia Nervosa is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by a cycle of bingeing and compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting designed to undo or compensate for the effects of binge eating.
Mood Disorders
The primary and most significant choice the therapist must make is whether to hospitalize an individual with major depression, or to try outpatient treatment.
Anxiety
Anxiety disorders range from feelings of discomfort to debilitating bouts of terror. This fact sheet briefly describes the different types of anxiety disorders. This fact sheet is not exhaustive, nor does it include the full range of symptoms and treatments.
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is distinguished by episodes of excitability (mania) alternating with cycles of depression. The "mood swings" between mania and depression are often very sudden.
Dysthymia
Alternate Names: Chronic Depression, Depression, Chronic, Dysthymic Disorder, Neurotic Depression
Pain Management
Pain is an unpleasant feeling that lets you know that something may be wrong. It is one of the body's warning signals that indicate a crisis that needs attention.
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are pervasive chronic psychological disorders, which can greatly affect a person's life. Having a personality disorder can negatively affect one's work, one's family, and one's social life.
Anti-Social
This disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of a disregard for other people's rights, often crossing the line and violating those rights.
Borderline Personality Disorder
A person who suffers from this disorder has labile interpersonal relationships characterized by instability. This pattern of interacting with others has persisted for years and is usually closely related to the person's self-image and early social interactions.
Histrionic
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.
Narcissistic
Narcissistic patients try to sustain an image of perfection and personal invincibility for themselves and attempt to project that impression to others as well.
Compulsive Shopping
From hitting the mall with your girlfriends on a Saturday afternoon, to holiday spending on gifts that go under the tree, shopping could be called one of America's favorite pastimes.
Gambling
Problem gambling is gambling behavior which causes disruptions in any major area of life: psychological, physical, social or vocational.
OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder distinguished by obsessions or compulsions - possessing one or both is enough for the diagnosis.
Relationship Issues
As we travel the path of recovery, many of us realize that something isn’t working in our relationship with sex and sexuality.
Adjustment Disorders
A person with adjustment disorder often experiences feelings of depression or anxiety or combined depression and anxiety.
Bereavement
Bereavement is an experience we must all go through when a death occurs. Someone who was important to us is no longer alive and we must somehow find ways of accepting that.
Co-Dependency
Codependency begins when an individual goes against their own beliefs, desires and opinions in a relationship to make someone else pleased, or lives believing they need an outside person or substance to be whole. It could be known as operating with a false self.
Divorce
The topic of divorce would seem to require no introduction. Divorce refers to the often messy and painful end of a marriage.
Grief
When a person experiences the loss of someone they love, either through divorce or death, they are forced to face grief. When a loss occurs, most of us are unprepared for how to handle it.
Trauma & PTSD
The Ranch provides comprehensive recovery treatment for survivors of childhood and/or adult trauma of all types. Comorbid addictive and compulsive disorders can be treated concurrently.
