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COVID concerns: Working professionals who need addiction treatment face high stress
COVID-19 has upended American life as we know it, and like so many others, working professionals who need addiction treatment have a great many more reasons to do so because of it. According to the online statistics portal Statista [1], “While there is no way to tell exactly what the economic damage from the global…
Read MoreAddiction in the railroad industry: COVID-19 creates recovery uncertainties
As COVID-19 numbers continue to fluctuate, two things are certain: The economic impacts will be felt for a long time to come, and those who struggle with alcoholism and addiction in the railroad industry would be wise to pursue treatment now, while there are resources in place to provide it. Like the aviation industry, the…
Read MoreSTORMY SKIES: Aviation employees who need drug and alcohol treatment need to act fast
The clock is ticking for aviation employees who need drug and alcohol treatment, all of whom face a great deal of uncertainty about their future in an industry that’s been crippled by COVID-19. Travel bans, lockdown measures and other restrictions put in place through government orders and voluntary quarantines by many Americans hit the industry…
Read MoreCornerstone Railroad Program patriarch Roger Davis retires after 20 years
If it weren’t for the coronavirus, this week at Cornerstone of Recovery would have belonged to Roger Davis. Before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled public gatherings, corporate conferences and large events, Cornerstone had planned to once again host the annual Railroad EAP Training and Networking Conference, as it has for the last 16 years. Every year,…
Read MoreMEET THE FAMILY: Toni Pierce provides a firm but loving hand to the Women’s Program
Three-quarters of the way home, Toni Pierce remembered that damn drug screen. It had been a crazy day in Cornerstone of Recovery’s Women’s Program, where she serves as a therapeutic assistant. Like many members of the clinical team, Toni wears a great many hats — as one of her coworkers described, “Toni is the one…
Read MoreHow to pay for rehab or addiction treatment
Without a doubt, one of the biggest hurdles to finding help for an alcohol or drug problem is how to pay for rehab or addiction treatment. Federal statistics bolster that: According to the 2015 National Survey on Drug use and Health, an estimated 21.7 million Americans — more than 8 percent of the population —…
Read MoreAddiction treatment and rehab options available to you
If you’ve come to the conclusion that you have a drug and alcohol problem and have begun to explore addiction treatment and rehab options available to you, the future may seem hopeless. It’s an understandable feeling, especially if you’ve reached a point of desperation in which you’re looking up a drug and alcohol treatment facility…
Read MoreAddiction and alcoholism treatment for veterans at Cornerstone of Recovery
In providing addiction and alcoholism treatment for veterans of the U.S. military, the staff members at Cornerstone of Recovery face a conundrum: How do you impart essential recovery wisdom that directly conflicts with military training and conditioning? One of the foundation stones of recovery is the concept of surrender: the willingness to stop fighting against…
Read MoreAddiction in the workplace: How can I help employees with an alcohol or drug problem?
Let’s get down to brass tacks, as they say: If you’re a business owner, executive, manager, team leader or decision maker and you’re not thinking, “How can I help employees with an alcohol or drug problem?,” then your business is suffering. To be fair, it’s already suffering because of addiction and/or alcoholism, to some degree:…
Read MoreAPEX therapy: A form of treatment at the crossroads of recovery and vocation
APEX therapy may not provide direct answers when recovering addicts and alcoholics question their newly sober identities, but it can provide some clues. Once the drugs and alcohol are stripped away in addiction treatment, patients often face something of an existential crisis. “Who am I,” they wonder, “if I’m not an addict or an alcoholic?”…
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