I started taking Adderall in my sophomore year because everyone around me seemed to be doing it and I was drowning in deadlines. By junior year I couldn’t write a single sentence without it. By the time I graduated I…
My husband didn’t believe he had an addiction. He believed he had a productivity strategy that had gotten slightly out of hand. Getting him to make the first call was the hardest part. What happened after that call was remarkable…
I was using Adderall every day for six years before I admitted to myself that I had a problem. By that point it wasn’t even making me perform better — it was just making me feel normal enough to get…
I’m no longer a residential patient but my connection with this centre didn’t end at discharge — and that has made all the difference. I still have monthly check-ins with my therapist here, and the aftercare plan they built with…
I won’t pretend the recovery was quick or easy — it wasn’t, for any of us. My son had been misusing Adderall since his second year of university and by the time we found this centre, we had nearly lost…
As a family therapist who works with clients across a range of addiction presentations, I can say with confidence that the family-centred approach here is genuinely exceptional. Stimulant dependency is uniquely isolating — both for the person in treatment and…