What happens when you mix alcohol and melatonin? Melatonin and alcohol are often misused to manage feelings of anxiety, restlessness and despair – but what happens when you mix the two? Is mixing melatonin with alcohol safe? And if when mixed, are there any adverse effects? What Is Melatonin? Melatonin is a hormone naturally produced […]
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What Are Cocaine Eyes? | Signs & Symptoms | Cocaine Pupils
According to NIH, cocaine abuse among young adults between 18 and 25 years remains relatively high. Many young people are exposing themselves to various risks — including violent behavior, addiction, and health risks. Therefore, identifying early signs of cocaine abuse opens up the door for getting your loved ones the help they need. For starters, […]
COVID-19 Update
COVID 19 Protocol Update LETTER FROM Kirk Kirkpatrick, CEO We at Riverside Recovery of Tampa, want to let the community know we’re open and remain committed to helping individuals struggling with substance abuse during this unusual time. We’re dedicated to the health and safety of our staff, patients and their families and continue to monitor […]
How Can I Hold Onto Hope?
As we’re working to recover, it’s impossible to feel hopeful and optimistic all the time. We’re bound to have times when we feel hopeless, pessimistic, even cynical. We’re going to experience feeling down on ourselves, afraid, defeated, and self-doubting. How hopeful we are about our recovery often determines how successful we ultimately are. If we’re […]
Pain Management and Addiction
Many of us struggling with addiction find ourselves needing to seek out prescribed pain management after an injury or accident, and specific challenges arise because our prescribers want to avoid our developing a dependence on a new substance, one that is originally prescribed for pain but that we might still end up abusing. There are […]
Access to Treatment
For many of us, the road to recovery starts with enrolling in a treatment program, but for many of us, we don’t have access to the professional treatment we need. Many of us don’t think recovery is possible for us, and we lose hope, never taking the steps to seek out help. Others of us […]
What Role Does the Subconscious Play in Our Recovery?
Everything we do, think and feel is governed by our subconscious mind. Our subconscious is where all of our emotional information is stored – our deeply rooted feelings, the memories of our trauma, our woundedness, and our emotional “baggage.” Our thought patterns, emotional responses, behavioral patterns, routines and life decisions are all impacted by the […]
Is There a Cure for Addiction?
Recovering from addiction and mental health issues is an involved and complicated process, and it can look different for everyone. No two addicts will experience addiction or recovery in the exact same ways. We all have differing causes, symptoms and manifestations of our illnesses. While there isn’t one cure for all of our addictions for […]
Family Therapy in Recovery
Family therapy is one of the best tools we can use to help ourselves when a loved one is struggling with addiction. Working with a therapist as a family can help us at various stages in the addiction and recovery process: when we feel we need an intervention, planning and executing the intervention, supporting each […]
Valor Program
Specialized Military Addiction Treatment Veterans & Active Duty Our VALOR program specializes in substance abuse and helping military, both active duty and veterans, combat PTSD and other trauma-related issues that contribute to substance abuse. Participants will take part in at least 1 hour of weekly psychotherapy with a Licensed Therapist in order to address the […]