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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!
Avoiding the Money Relapse Trap
Learning financial responsibility forces us to address and change behaviors and habits associated with our addictions.
Topics: maintaining sobriety, Recovery Tools, relapse, tools for recovery, triggers
I’m Ready to Call a Family Interventionist
An Interventionist will be trying to make sure they have all of the ‘pieces of the puzzle’
Topics: getting help, intervention, Intervention Series
Six Things You Can Do While Your Loved One’s in Treatment
Too often our own hopes, dreams, and aspirations have been shunted aside.
Topics: co dependency, family involvement, maintaining sobriety, promoting recovery
Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 8
Even the most recalcitrant drinker can appreciate the desirability of avoiding still more consequences. It’s a side door around some of the alcoholic’s denial.
Topics: counseling, court-mandated, DUI/DWI, leverage, negotiation, Using Leverage Series
HALT-ing Relapse Before it Starts
Everybody gets hungry, angry, etc.—it’s normal. Can’t avoid that, can you? That’s life.
Topics: emotional issues, maintaining sobriety, Recovery Tools, relapse, stress, tools for recovery
Tips on Improving Addictions Education
Psychological theories that may be of great interest to professionals can seem like messages from Pluto to a rehab patient.
Topics: addiction and the brain, communication, early recovery, patient education, program development, therapies and tools
Why Intervention Works
The addict may have tried to control drinking or drug use many times, and failed. This experience leads him to conclude that he can’t change.
Topics: getting help, intervention, Intervention Series, leverage
Each Day a New Beginning
It was a birthday gift in 1985. I have read it every day since. That means I’ve read each meditation somewhere between 27 and 28 times.
Topics: book review, maintaining sobriety, mindfulness, spirituality, tools for recovery
Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 7
Involving the therapeutic team adds strength to the message and can speed the accomplishment of important goals.
Topics: counseling, court-mandated, DUI/DWI, intervention, leverage, Using Leverage Series
Getting a Good Night’s Sleep in Early Recovery
For most of us, sleep problems are related to the recovery process itself, and the complex changes that occur as the brain heals following considerable abuse
Topics: early recovery, maintaining sobriety, prescription medications, Recovery Tools, relaxation, tools for recovery
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