Our Clinical Director, Donna Stefanick, sits down with Frank Mitchell, Program Director for WFMD and longtime afternoon host of Mid-Maryland Live to discuss treatment, intervention, and prevention programs that...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental illness that causes repeated unwanted thoughts or sensations (obsessions) or the urge to do something over and over again (compulsions). Some people can...

Surrender to what is. Let go if what was. Have faith in what will be. What Is Emotional Sobriety?      Emotional sobriety is less about the quality of the feeling...

Earlier in our blog series we discussed the nuances of early recovery and the phenomenon “anhedonia”, that renders former substance abusers unable to feel any forms of pleasure without...

As the opioid crisis continues to explode in the United States, it seems there is now no one who remains unscathed.  Citizens from everywhere are losing their spouses, children,...

Step four of Alcoholics Anonymous states that we “made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves”.  While a twelve-step program is not the only pathway to continued sobriety, it is...

It is estimated that 30% of the LBGT community suffers from some form of addiction—whether it be gambling, shopping, or illicit substances. Compared to 9% of the general population,...