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SANCA Wedge Gardens welcomes OT Caryn Berman
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Glenhazel resident Caryn Berman joined SANCA Wedge Gardens Treatment Centre as a part-time occupational therapist in February 2021. Berman, who works at SANCA Wedge Gardens four mornings a week, believes that occupational therapy (OT) has a huge role to play in substance use disorder rehabilitation. She works with men at the rehab centre who are… Read more
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Karen says farewell to Wedge Gardens
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Social worker and Edenvale resident Karen Griessel has bid farewell to Wedge Gardens after being part of the therapeutic team at the rehab centre for over six years. “I started at Wedge Gardens in 2015, doing my practical work there during the last year of my social work studies. I was blessed enough to start… Read more
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The dangers of ketamine
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Ketamine is primarily used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic but is abused by users as an hallucinogenic dissociative drug. According to Karen Griessel, a social worker at SANCA Wedge Gardens substance abuse treatment centre, ketamine is usually sold on the street as a bitter tasting, grainy, white powder. Users usually swallow, snort… Read more
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The dangers of khat addiction
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Khat refers to the leaves and shoots of Catha edulis, a flowering evergreen shrub that grows in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It is used by chewing the plant’s fresh leaves, which have the most potent effect, and by smoking it, making Arabian tea from it or sprinkling it on food. Although some users… Read more
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Beware of the addictive herbal supplement kratom
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Beware of the addictive herbal supplement kratom Read more
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Alcoholism is a disease
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The banning of alcohol sales in South Africa for the second time, as a means to curb the spread of the Coronavirus, has again highlighted the dangers of alcoholism. Alcoholism is a chronic disease characterised by uncontrolled drinking and a preoccupation with alcohol. Alcoholics are not able to control their drinking due to both a… Read more
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Step work in recovery: Step 8
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Make a list of all of the people you have harmed and become willing to make amends to all of them. “Step 8 is when we bring other people into the healing process – the people harmed during our active addiction, those we meant to harm and those we harmed by accident,” says Karen Griessel,… Read more
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Step work in recovery: Step 7
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In this step, humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings, says Karen Griessel, a social worker at SANCA Wedge Gardens. The spiritual principle linked to Step 7 is humility. Humility is defined as a freedom from pride or arrogance – the quality or state of being humble. By definition, humility is the very thing many… Read more
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Step work in recovery: Step 6
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In this step, we were entirely ready to have God remove all of these character defects, says Karen Griessel, a social worker at SANCA Wedge Gardens. “By now the person has developed humility and can see theirself more clearly. Becoming entirely ready means reaching a spiritual state of being, aware of the defects, but also… Read more
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Step work in recovery: Step 5
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In this step, we admit to God, to ourselves and to another human beings the exact nature of our wrongs, says Karen Griessel, a social worker at SANCA Wedge Gardens. “This is about the admission the person makes, together with the previous admissions of having a disease, needing help and that there is a Power… Read more
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