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Eventually, the fantasy bubble gets popped, and the addict realizes they’ve wasted a lot of time when they could have been making progress.

You can be mindful about everything. The next time you go to the grocery store and you pick up those red apples, think about the time it took for those apples to grow, who picked them, and where they came from.

Eventually, things get so bad that even the minimizer gets frightened.

Eventually, through painful experience, the externalizer recognizes that the secret of recovery is focusing on changing yourself, not others.

Eventually, the rationalizer (through painful experience) realizes that instead of serving as a remedy, drugs and alcohol are actually making problems worse

At one time, critical thinking skills were a required part of education in many schools. I have the impression that’s no longer the case. Too bad, because faced with a flood of contradictory arguments, we need them more than ever.

The key to treatment success is an integrated approach: One treatment team treats both illnesses using an integrated treatment plan.

If you love someone who is struggling with addiction or alcoholism, you can help their journey to recovery by learning some simple communications rules.

The behavior of antisocial persons is a challenge to traditional substance abuse counseling. Offender populations are packed with antisocial clients. It helps to address these behaviors directly, beginning with the treatment plan.