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Encore Outpatient Services is proud to provide treatment options that appeal to a wide variety of people with different needs, schedules, and availability for intensive… Read More »3 Key Benefits of Our Partial Hospitalization Program

A classic scene from adventure movies often features the main hero or heroine slashing through a thick wall of vines in a forest or jungle… Read More »Encore’s Trauma and Addiction Treatment -Why Together is Better

The relationship between mental health and substance use disorders is very tightly woven. While concrete statistics are difficult to pin down, the percentage of people… Read More »5 Most Common Co-Occurring Disorders

Hand sanitizer addiction may seem ridiculous to the uninitiated, but it is a real problem that has emerged during the pandemic years and is affecting… Read More »Understanding Hand Sanitizer Addiction

In art therapy, the focus is on the individual patient creating art to process issues that may challenge or block them. Through the practice of… Read More »Using Community-Based Art Therapy for Addiction Treatment

Relapse is the end of the world only if you let it be the end of your recovery efforts. What is more important than the… Read More »7 Steps: What to Do When You Relapse

Does Using CBD Count as a Relapse? Getting into and staying in recovery is a challenge, but with the right framework of thought and support… Read More »Does Using CBD Count as a Relapse?

Today is a day to celebrate love and all the joy that it brings us. And why wouldn’t we? A healthy loving relationship brings each… Read More »When Love Is Not Something to Celebrate

Talking about one’s childhood is an important question in the context of how therapy works, particularly in helping patients move from addiction to recovery. At… Read More »Why Do Therapists Always Want to Talk About My Childhood?

People since the dawn of time have found ways to achieve altered states of mind through using (and abusing) substances. Addiction is so rooted in… Read More »Nitrous Oxide Addiction: Not Gone, Not Forgotten