Library
Resources on Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery
What can you find in the Library?
We’d like the Library to be a one-stop shop for information and resources on addiction, treatment, and recovery. We’ll be building sections for different types of media, topic areas, and audiences, just like a real-world library.
You can view the complete feed of all RecoverySI articles, resources, videos and more here.
Check out our first “New Addition”–the Bookshelf!
Taking the Fifth
It can be intimidating to look over the inventory, and think about sharing these shame-laden items with another real live person.
Topics: 12Step, Recovery Without God, stigma
Social Networking and Recovery Services
Social networking speech is protected, in the United States at least, by the same Constitution that protects other forms of speech.
Topics: administration, communication, supervision
Vaillant and the Long Term View of Relapse
He’s able to describe complex phenomena in terms that, with a little work at least, we can understand.
Models of Addiction: The Temperance Model
The idea was that the drinker would admit his sins, beg forgiveness, accept punishment, and promise to abstain from that point on.
Topics: alcohol, co dependency, models of addiction
Models of Addiction: The Psychoanalytic Model
And there’s no reliable way to tell whether addictive personality traits represent a cause or a result of addiction.
Topics: addiction, alcoholism, models of addiction
Addiction Treatment: The Double Standard
Addiction has been described as a chronic problem that we’ve attempted to treat as an acute illness –a big reason for the revolving door of relapse.
Topics: abstinence, MAT, program development, therapeutic models
Models of Addiction: The Medical Model
However necessary — and it is necessary — good acute care will never be enough to solve the problem of addictions.
Topics: alcoholism, health care, models of addiction, SBIRT
Nonbelievers Moral Inventory
Non-believers build moral codes without churches, because you don’t need to believe in a god(s) to know the difference between right and wrong.
Topics: 12Step, maintaining sobriety, Recovery Tools, Recovery Without God
Models of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
By examining the models through which people view and deal with addiction, we can better understand how our society reacts to its continuing presence.
Topics: alcoholism, models of addiction, policy, stigma
Sober Again in Margaritaville
Living sober is a very special process. A process that you can easily let yourself get tired of, or one that can lift you higher than any beverage could.
Topics: maintaining sobriety, mindfulness, tools for recovery, triggers