Drug Rehab Articles

The Gatehouse Academy Research Center is your one-stop resource for information, articles and news about young adult drug and alcohol addiction. Need to know more about interventions? Looking for the latest statistics about abuse or recovery? Have questions about how to help your teen? Gatehouse has the answers supported with reliable information from the industry’s most respected sources.

10 Tips for Staying Sober After Rehab

You’ve been in substance abuse rehab and now you are re-entering mainstream society. Anxious thoughts race through your...

12 Step Yoga Therapy: Treatment for the Body, Mind and Soul

Yoga is an ideal recreational activity for young adults, because it conditions the body, mind and soul. Recovering from an...

8 Myths about Addiction and Rehab

The public has a lot of ideas about drug and alcohol addiction and many of those beliefs are actually incorrect. These myths...

Abuse of Over the Counter Drugs

In decades past parents had, by today’s standards, little to worry about with what substances their kids may be...

Alcohol Addiction

Alcohol Addiction Can Start Young The negative effects of heavy drinking or alcohol addiction are often devastating for adults...

Alcohol Rehab Centers

Fifteen million Americans suffer from alcohol dependency, with nearly 500,000 of those people being children ages nine to...

Alcohol Treatment

The most interesting aspect about alcohol abuse is that it tricks the alcoholic into thinking that nothing is wrong. Alcoholics...

Benefits of Long Term Drug Rehab

With over 23 million addicts over the age of twelve needing treatment for drug abuse, it has become crucial to examine...

Characteristics of Young Adult Admissions

Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation facilities continue to play a major role in the improvement of our young people. A recent...

College Binge Drinking

There is a social stigma attached to college binge drinking. It perpetuates itself because of a number of factors. The first...

Death by Drugs: Fatal Celebrity Drug and Alcohol Addictions

In today’s society it seems that celebrities are stuck in a revolving door of drug and alcohol addiction, rehab, recovery...

Deciding on an Alcohol Treatment Center

The physical dependency that alcoholics have can be treated through different types of programs, with options varying from...

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Drug and Alcohol AbuseNo longer children and not yet mature adults, some young people have the age but not the wisdom to stay...

Drug and Alcohol Rehab: A Positive Experience

Nobody wants addiction to take over their life and many addicts refuse treatment initially. The reason for this is simple; the...

Drug Detox Programs

It is unfortunate that most of the news you hear about drug detox is negative. Most of the stories regarding the treatment of...

Drug Detox Rehab

Overcoming a drug or alcohol addiction could easily be one of the most difficult times a human could face in his or her...

Drug Rehab Information

There is nothing easy about overcoming a drug and/or alcohol addition--that much is widely known. The difficulty of conquering...

Drug Rehabilitation

Of all the conflicting theories about the best methods of drug addiction rehabilitation, there is one dominant fact--the...

Eating Disorders and drug and alcohol addiction: What’s food got to do with it?

Written by Sandy Richardson

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) is an effective therapeutic approach that has been shown to have a positive impact on...

Family Therapy in Addictions Treatment

From the earliest days of Alcoholics Anonymous, the role of the family in addictions and recovery has been a hot topic of...

Heroin Addiction

Effective treatment for heroin addiction remains an important feature of drug addiction programs. The latest National Survey on...

How to Live Sober

Living clean and sober isn’t a dream or just a goal – it’s a long-term lifestyle choice, a way of living that...

Karate Therapy: Kicking Substance Abuse

Whether its drugs or alcohol, there is no doubt substance abuse changes a person’s life. Addiction takes over both the body and...

Lesbians, Gays, and Alcoholism Treatment: Challenges to Recovery

Veronica Jeffus, M.Ed., TherapistGatehouse Therapeutic Health Services

Methamphetamine and the Role of Drug Rehab

Methamphetamine is a highly addictive nervous system stimulant that is affecting every area of society. Children are present in...

Music Therapy in Drug Rehab

When someone enters a long-term drug rehab facility it’s most likely that both the body and spirit are in need of help....

Natural Recovery: Getting to the Root of Addiction Treatment

Every year in September, our nation celebrates Recovery Month to share the stories of real people in recovery. It’s unfortunate...

Oxycontin Addiction

OxyContin is a narcotic used in cases of extreme, continuous pain. Cancer patients, for example, may be prescribed this...

Resources for Parents of Drug and/or Alcohol Addicted Teens and Young Adults

When a teen or young adult develops a drug or alcohol addiction, it often tears the family apart. This is especially true for...

Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll

For decades – perhaps longer – each generation of human society has adopted a genre of music to identify with....

Sober Living College - Getting Through College without the Abuse

Heading back to school this fall, it is a disturbing revelation when a research study shows that nearly half of all full-time...

Spirituality, Psychotherapy, and AA

By Donald Durham, Ph.D., Licensed PsychologistClinical Director

The Importance of Drug Rehab

While celebrity rehab pools seem to be the rage, the reality is that substance abuse and addiction is a major problem in 21st...

The Twelve Step Program

Twelve-step programs are used to battle addictions as well as other compulsive and behavior disorders. These programs evolved...

Warning Signs of Alcoholism and Treatment Options

Alcoholism is a disease and in order to start the road to recovery, the alcoholic must recognize the characteristics of this...

What Drug and Alcohol Rehab is Really Like

You’re getting ready to go to rehab and you’re understandably scared. You know you need help but you have no idea...

What to Look For In An Effective Treatment Option for Drug Addiction

According to the National Institute of Drug Addiction, in 2004 approximately 22.5 million Americans aged 12 or older needed...

Why Drug Rehab Treatment Fails

Why Drug Rehab Treatment FailsWhy is it that so many drug rehab treatment programs fail? After all, the purpose of...

Yoga and Meditation: An Alternative to Prescription Pill Treatment

Even though the fact that yoga and meditation help in the healing of mental illnesses is not new information to industry...

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