Tag: detoxification

  • Wedge Gardens interviewed on Health Matters: Drug Awareness Week

    Wedge Gardens interviewed on Health Matters: Drug Awareness Week

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    Watch the Health Matters video in which Host Dr Yakub Essack talks about Drug Awareness Week with Wedge Gardens’ Adel Grobbelaar to understand the medical issues and signs of drug addicts as well as where and how to treat an addict. #WedgeGardens #KickYourHabit Read more

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  • Wedge Gardens: Committed to fighting substance abuse

    Wedge Gardens: Committed to fighting substance abuse

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    Wedge Gardens is available to do drug and alcohol abuse awareness talks at schools and in workplaces. The Sanca-affiliated rehabilitation centre, situated close to both Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni, offers a diversion programme for employees whose work is being affected by addiction issues and who may thus need counselling or rehabilitation. This is in addiction to… Read more

  • Committed to fighting drug and alcohol abuse

    Committed to fighting drug and alcohol abuse

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    Wedge Gardens is available to do drug and alcohol abuse awareness talks at schools and in workplaces. The Sanca-affiliated rehabilitation centre, situated close to both Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni, offers a diversion programme for employees whose work is being affected by addiction issues and who may thus need counselling or rehabilitation. This is in addiction to… Read more

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  • June 26 highlights International Day against Drug Abuse

    June 26 highlights International Day against Drug Abuse

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    Take a moment on June 26 to consider how drug abuse has the potential to tear apart families and even communities. Since 1987, the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking has taken place on June 26 to raise awareness of this debilitating social problem. Wedge Gardens rehabilitation centre, situated just outside of Johannesburg,… Read more

  • World-wide Worry – Social networking addiction

    World-wide Worry – Social networking addiction

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    By: Karen Griessel, Social Worker at Rand Aid’s Wedge Gardens Treatment Centre World-wide Worry is a phrase used to refer to someone who spends too much time using Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and other forms of social media – to the point that it interferes with other aspects of their daily life. The cluster of… Read more

  • Wedge Garden’s kings and their queen beat boredom

    Wedge Garden’s kings and their queen beat boredom

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    Things are a lot more black and white at Wedge Gardens treatment centre these days. The long-anticipated giant outdoor chessboard has been completed and is being enjoyed by the gentlemen at Wedge Gardens. “A special mention needs to be made of those individuals who made yet another occupational therapy department (OT) project possible,” says Kendra… Read more

  • Sanca happily settled at Wedge Gardens

    Sanca happily settled at Wedge Gardens

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    After relocating last year, the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca) is settled in at Wedge Gardens treatment centre in Whitney Gardens, Lyndhurst, just outside of Johannesburg. Both the Sanca National Office and the Sanca National Academy of Learning are based at Wedge Gardens, which is situated in extensive grounds easily… Read more

  • Nursing veteran joins Wedge Gardens team

    Nursing veteran joins Wedge Gardens team

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    With two decades of experience in the healthcare field, Wedge Garden’s new deputy manager and professional charge nurse brings to the table a wealth of knowledge that complements the substance abuse treatment centre’s dedicated professional team. Kempton Park resident Estelle Raath joined Wedge Gardens on February 1, 2018. “As part of Wedge Garden’s multi-disciplinary team,… Read more

  • Labyrinth smooths rehab’s rocky road

    Labyrinth smooths rehab’s rocky road

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    Wedge Gardens treatment centre’s occupational therapy (OT) department has stepped to it and completed is walking labyrinth. “The aim was to provide an additional space for mindfulness practices at the Wedge Gardens to fuel and support the dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and mindfulness-based stress-reduction programmes that the OT department run every weekday morning,” says Kendra… Read more

  • The ugly truth about depression and substance abuse

    The ugly truth about depression and substance abuse

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    Research indicates a connection between mood disorders like depression and substance abuse, says social worker Karen Griessel, who has helped dozens of people kick addiction through Wedge Gardens’ professional treatment programme. Sanca-affiliated Wedge Gardens has developed a holistic treatment programme based on multi-disciplinary interventions that focus on assessment, behaviour change, family and community integration and… Read more