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Both Chronic, But Different: Addiction and Diabetes
We haven’t corrected any identified physical deficiency. We’ve simply substituted a medical opioid for an illicit one.
Category: Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | Tags: addiction medications, disease model, MAT, opioids
Balancing Act
It’s just an extremely effective way to establish a reasoned, rational sense of self that is unaffected by crisis and conflict.
Category: Articles, People in Recovery | Tags: mindfulness, Recovery Without God, relaxation, spirituality
Groups That Don’t Work pt 2
We’ve never seen a group that works, right from its inception. Progress toward work usually involves struggle through one or more of these modes.
Category: Addiction Clinicians, Articles | Tags: clinician skills, groups, treatment models
Groups That Don’t Work pt 1
When a group adopts one of these operating modes permanently, as a primary form of interaction, they end up actively resisting any responsibility for achieving individual and group goals.
Category: Addiction Clinicians, Articles | Tags: clinician skills, groups, treatment models
Beyond the Jargon
What’s behind those fine-sounding terms on the website? Which provide useful information, and which are bells and whistles to enhance attractiveness?
Category: Articles, Families, Treatment | Tags: finding the right treatment, treatment models
Taking Action: Know the Enemy
The behaviors of alcoholics and addicts are so predictable because the disease follows a certain progression.
Category: Articles, Families | Tags: consequences, getting help, Intervention Series, recognizing addiction
Sobriety: A Graphic Novel
And I needed that gift of desperation to allow the rest of the Steps to work in my life, as I worked them.
Category: Bookshelf | Tags: 12Step, Alcoholics Anonymous, maintaining sobriety, recovery memoir
Hedging His Bet
He burned through more than a few sponsors before settling with an older gentlemen who’d gotten clean and sober following a career as a Baltimore drug thug and a stretch in state prison.
Category: Articles, Families, People in Recovery | Tags: maintaining sobriety, recovery memoir
The Five Percent Meme
People attend AA for a variety of reasons, in different stages of readiness, and with diverse objectives in mind.
Category: Recovery, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: 12Step, Alcoholics Anonymous, outcomes, recovery support groups, relapse, research
Why They Quit
By the time the family gets around to taking action, conditions in the addict’s life have already reached the point where there’s a certain incentive to change.
Category: Families, How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (families) | Tags: alcoholism, getting help, intervention