Sober Living by the Sea

For over 20 years, Sober Living By The Sea Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center, has provided alcohol, drug, and eating disorder treatments to those in need of rehabilitation. Located in Newport Beach, one of the most beautiful beach communities in Southern California, Sober Living By The Sea is now one of the largest residential substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States.

Drug Addiction Treatment

Drug addiction can be described by many words, including complex, confusing, devastating and potentially deadly.

But one of the most important words that a person can use to describe drug addiction is one that is often overlooked: treatable.

If An Alcoholic Is Unwilling To Get Help, What Can You Do About It?

This can be a challenge. An alcoholic can't be forced to get help except under certain circumstances, such as a violent incident that results in court-ordered treatment or medical emergency. But you don't have to wait for someone to "hit rock bottom" to act. Many alcoholism treatment specialists suggest the following steps to help an alcoholic get treatment.

The Hard Truths about Drug Addiction

Those who struggle with drug addiction don't set out to destroy themselves and everyone and everything in their path--rather, these disastrous consequences are the effect of the vicious cycle of addiction. For many, drugs seem to be a means of averting emotional and/or physical pain by providing the user with a temporary and illusionary escape from or way to cope with life's realities. In fact, more problems--often life-shattering ones--are created by using drugs.

Women Experience Drug Abuse & Addiction Differently Than Men

There is growing evidence that the effects of drug abuse and addiction do not always impact men and women in the same manner. For example, data indicate that for several illicit drugs, women may proceed more rapidly to drug dependence than do men. There is also evidence that nicotine dependence in females, relative to males, is controlled less by nicotine and more by psychosocial factors.