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!
Families: Why Alanon?
If you’ve made friends among people who share your experience and are willing to listen, you’re miles ahead of most family members, who still have no place where they can safely vent their own problems.
Topics: 12Step, alanon and alateen, co dependency, Family 12-Step
12-Step Programs for Families
Family programs like Al-anon and Alateen can help us learn ways to recover from the effects of someone else’s addiction, and help us contribute to their recovery
Topics: 12Step, alanon and alateen, co dependency, Family 12-Step, recovery support groups
Deterring Drunk Driving: Thoughts on Designing a System
If estimates are correct that a typical offender has driven under the influence between 60 and 100 times prior to first arrest, it’s clear the actual problem is far, far greater than arrests alone can document.
Topics: criminal courts, DUI/DWI, legal problems, policy
Deterring Drunk Driving: The Role of Treatment
It seems to me that a successful approach to DWI must be based on the assumption that drunk drivers are a diverse population.
Topics: criminal courts, DUI/DWI, legal problems
Deterring Drunk Driving: Do Sanctions Work?
One state estimates around a fifth of offenders are rearrested within three years of the prior conviction. Expand that window to five or ten years and the rate is likely substantially higher.
Topics: criminal courts, DUI/DWI, legal problems, research
Deterring Drunk Driving: Who’s Likely to Reoffend?
One or two (risk factors) is not as suggestive of repeat offending as four or five. But it does allow a clinician to apply a rough risk profile to a particular offender.
Topics: DUI/DWI, legal problems, research, risk factors
The Challenge of the Repeat Offense Drunk Driver
It’s difficult to squeeze a lot of motivational work into the course of outpatient counseling. Clinicians are anxious to get to the behavior change part.
Topics: client engagement and motivation, DUI/DWI, legal problems, program development, systems
Tragic and Costly: DUI/DWI
Public perceptions of how we should and shouldn’t treat offenders often result in less than optimal solutions both for the addict/alcoholic and for the victims and the larger society that must pay.
Topics: criminal courts, DUI/DWI, legal problems
Resetting Your Triggers
The trick is to find another reward to replace the one that’s no longer available. For instance, if we’re no longer going to have a cigarette with coffee after dinner, what other reward could we substitute in its place?
Topics: anxiety, behavior modification, maintaining sobriety, Recovery Tools, relapse, smoking, tools for recovery, triggers
Gaining Compliance
With ‘coerced’ clients, it’s easy to fall into a little game with the client striving to appear in compliance while covertly doing whatever he wants.
Topics: client engagement and motivation, clinician skills, compliance and noncompliance, counseling skills