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The Cabin Clinical Team

The Cabin Clinical Team

Our team boasts over 10 years of experience working with individuals struggling with addiction and mental health challenges. This extensive experience allows us to provide comprehensive assessments, develop personalized treatment plans, and deliver evidence-based interventions tailored to meet your unique needs.

    Stages of Treatment and Recovery for Addicts

    Stages of Treatment and Recovery for Addicts

    ‘Doctor, how long will it be until I am better?’ This is a question that lingers in most addicts mind and nearly all of them will ask their doctor, therapist, or counselor at some point or another. The honest answer is that there is no simple answer to give. This is a complicated question, but…
    Krokadil A Drug Ravaging Russia

    Krokadil: A Drug Ravaging Russia

    It sounds made up, but the latest drug to hit the market in Russia, known as krocadil, is as real as ever and is a growing problem that is slowly making its way onto the streets of Europe.  Krokadil made its entrance onto the Russian drug market in 2009 and since then is said to…
    Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in Addiction Rehab

    Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in Addiction Rehab

    French painter Paul Cézanne said, “Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.” If we take the 19th century artist’s definition, great thinkers are people who are able to live the world again and again, to find new emotions in the monotonous days and mundane tasks. For many who abuse drugs and…
    Drugs in the Workplace, and Should Employers Pay for Drug Rehab Programmes

    Drugs in the Workplace, and Should Employers Pay for Drug Rehab Programmes?

    In a recent article published on The Guardian’s “Work Blog,” employment lawyer Philip Landau writes about the findings in a 2012 report about the British workplace: “more than a million workers have drugs in their system,” he writes, citing these findings compiled from 1.7 million drug tests performed in U.K. workplaces, “while the number testing…
    Going to Private Alcohol Rehab Does Not Make you a Failure!

    Going to Private Alcohol Rehab Does Not Make you a Failure!

    Facilities like The Priory, Betty Ford, and The Clouds, are well known – often celebrity filled – private drug and alcohol treatment centres. However, there are thousands of people entering private alcohol rehabs every year who you will never hear about. With the NHS information centre reporting worrying trends in the increase in alcohol consumption…
    Out of Rehab Fun Summer Activities to Keep you Occupied

    Out of Rehab: Fun Summer Activities to Keep you Occupied

    Perhaps you or someone you know has recently completed treatment at a rehab centre for a drug or alcohol addiction; if so, you will know that during this time staying on the right track is of the upmost importance. With longer days and summer right around the corner there are many fun activities that you…
    5 Typical Ways to Threaten Your Alcohol Recovery

    5 Typical Ways to Threaten Your Alcohol Recovery

    There is no denying that making the decision to go into treatment for addiction and starting your personal journey of alcohol recovery is never easy. It doesn’t matter whether you have been in recovery for two months or four years.Unless you live in a society where alcohol is not only difficult and expensive to get…
    Adoption and Drug Addiction Treatment

    Adopting a Child Moving to Safety and Drug Addiction Treatment

    Adopting a child is hopefully a process of moving a child into a safer and more secure environment; often adoptions occur in the hopes of removing a child from an abusive home, or from a family whose financial or mental state has left them unable to care for the child, and into a family who…
    When You Have a Minute to Spare Practicing Brief Stress Relief in Addiction Treatment

    Practicing Brief Stress Relief in Treatment for A Few Minutes

    We’ve talked before about the dangers of stress to someone in addiction treatment. Too much stress can trigger a relapse, and cause recovering addicts to retreat to abusing the substance of his or her choice. It is true that we often cannot control the various stressors in life, be they a missed bill payment or…
    Avoiding Drug Addiction Treatment How to Reduce Pain Without Prescription Drugs

    Avoiding Drug Addiction Treatment: How to Reduce Pain Without Prescription Drugs

    With a rise in prescription drug abuse reported this summer, the U.S. has begun to shift its drug policy focus from illicit—and smuggled substances—to legal, and easily obtained drugs, the most common of these being prescription painkillers. The increase in usage is a cause of great concern for those in drug addiction treatment circles. As…
    The Songs of Drug Recovery

    The Songs of Drug Recovery

    As if it were music’s official content, songs with lyrics about abusing drugs and alcohol penetrate airwaves – at times, it seems harder to avoid songs about alcohol and drugs than it is to find a song in popular music that doesn’t mention liquor or pills. Taking it one step further are songs that swear…
    Actor Russell Brand Endorses Abstinence-based Addiction Treatment Programme

    Actor Russell Brand Endorses Abstinence-based Addiction Treatment Programme

    More often that not, when a celebrity’s name shares headline space with a drug topic, it is a sensationalised story of about a recognised name being admitted to an addiction treatment programme. Recently, recovering drug user and British comedian Russell Brand has been in the news for drug abuse outreach though; earlier in August he…
    Is addiction really a disease

    Is Addiction Really a Disease?

    Addiction was first classified as a treatable illness by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1956, yet some people still choose to believe that addiction is simply a few poor decisions on part of an individual who lacks ‘will power’. This is not the case, however, and as medical research becomes more involved, doctors and…
    Eating the right foods to help prevent a relapse part 1

    Eating the Right Foods to Help Prevent a Relapse Part 1

    Eating Right Can Help Depression Many addicts suffer from depression and other emotional disorders. For some addicts these emotions are part of the reason why they began using drugs or drinking alcohol in the first place. Eating the right foods can help to improve or even eliminate depression and other negative emotions. Eating right can…
    A New Connection Found Between Energy Drinks and Alcohol

    A New Connection Found Between Energy Drinks and Alcohol

    A new twist has been revealed about possible triggers for alcohol abuse. Those shiny bottles of energy drinks widely found for sale in convenience stores are now linked to increased drinking, and also to increased intoxication. While experts agree about the genetic basis for alcoholism, researchers are still uncovering environmental triggers linked to drinking behaviors….