Category: Aftercare Programmes

How Fear Keeps You Addicted to Managing Everything

Addiction isn’t only about substances. It’s about control, losing it, craving it, chasing it, pretending you have it. And for many people in recovery, the addiction doesn’t end when the drugs or alcohol stop. It simply changes shape. The new high comes from control, the desperate, obsessive need to manage everything and everyone to feel […]

The Importance of Long-Term Treatment & Aftercare When Leaving Rehab

If you’ve just been discharged from rehab, you might be wondering about the importance of long-term treatment and aftercare. Find out why you need to enrol in an aftercare programme immediately to safeguard your recovery. Self-help groups help too. This is blog number 18 in the series 20 things you should know about rehabilitative treatment: […]

Changes Addiction Rehab is licensed by the South African Department of Social Development (Practice No. 0470000537861) and the Department of Health, and is a registered detox facility and practice with the Board of Healthcare Funders. Our treatment programme is led by counsellors registered with the HPCSA, working alongside a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals under a unified practice. We are proud, standing members of the International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC), the Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, the South African Council for Social Service Professions, the South African Medical Association, the South African Nursing Council and the South African Society of Psychiatrists. Changes Addiction Rehab has been in continuous professional operation since 2007, when it was founded by Sheryl Rahme, who has worked in the addiction treatment field since 1984. Our core clinical team brings over 100 years of combined professional addiction recovery experience.