Once you have taken the decisive step towards professional help. Your choice of where to undergo treatment should be based on finding a centre that closely matches your rehabilitation goals and offers an encompassing and safe environment. There is a much greater likelihood of success when you have access to treatment that has a high success record treating patient...

You've missed the train and will be late for an important meeting. Your deadlines are getting tighter, your hours longer, and you're always under pressure to perform at peak level. All of these scenarios can cause us to feel stressed out. Most of the time, that's okay, as stress is a natural reaction to events that happen during the course of our lives.  I...

You have been working at maximum velocity. Long working hours mean you have little time to rest, exercise or sit down to a healthy and relaxed meal. When you do finish work, there is peer pressure to head out to play as hard as you have worked.  This has been happening over a period of time now, and you feel physically drained and mentally exhausted. You feel...

There’s no denying it, White River Manor is a very special place. Nestled along the White River and set within a beautiful 100-year-old garden, the centre is encompassed by agricultural farmscape and rolling hills, with the tropical African Lowveld forests in the distance. The town of White River is home to many creative people, including several globally recogn...

The road to success is not without its potholes. Long hours and high demands placed on executives and business owners can lead to considerable stress and ultimately executive burnout.  Although many of us think it’s possible to live on pure adrenalin alone, sadly it’s not the case. A 2018 Gallup study of 7,500 employees found that a significant 23% report...

They call ecstasy the ‘love drug’ because it ramps up your sensations and people using it feel things at a heightened level; colours, sound and touch. It’s great if you’re clubbing or at a manic music concert because you lose all your inhibitions and can dance and rave all night long. And sex on ecstasy is mind-blowing. But what they don’t tell you is ec...

The go to luxury executive rehab facility for South Africa Nestled in an ancient garden on the outskirts of the town of White River, the gateway to the Kruger National Park, White River Manor offers a comprehensive treatment Program tailored to meet the individual needs of clients seeking peace and quiet in one of the world’s most beautiful spots. Regarded as...

In other words, will using weed lead to harder drugs? That’s a question many people are asking now that dagga is legal for private use in South Africa. There were a lot of funny memes doing the rounds on social media when the news broke in September 2018 but the bigger debate is, “is South Africa courting the devil”? Marijuana, weed, cannabis, dope, dagga...

This is a question only you can answer and it’s not the easiest thing to do. Unless you’ve got to a really bad place in your life and risk losing everything; you can go a long time thinking, “I can handle this”. But in the end, the drugs you’re using will end up controlling you. Here’s a list of questions that were drawn up by recovering addicts as ...

Recovery is a long journey of self-discovery and you walk it by taking one step at a time. One approach is to follow the 12-step Program that has strong spiritual roots and offers guiding principles to uncover deep-seated behavioural issues that drive addiction. There is much debate whether the world-acclaimed 12-steps Program is still relevant considering how neu...

An intervention is often a last-gasp attempt to convince a loved one struggling with addiction to get help. They’ve become more and more popular over the last 20 years and given rise to reality TV shows where families are filmed confronting a son or daughter in the grip of a drug or alcohol addiction. The medical community is at odds as to whether they work or n...

Dual diagnosis is so common that most alcohol and drug recovery centres expect to find it in a patient. It’s where a patient is diagnosed with a mental illness and a co-occurring addiction. This ranges from alcohol and drug addiction to an addiction to sex, gaming and stealing. Studies show that at least 50% of people living with a mental illness have a substanc...