Is Alcohol Dependence Best Viewed as a Chronic Relapsing Disorder?
Is alcohol dependence best viewed as a chronic relapsing disorder? "We believe that a chronic relapsing disorder model is not a useful conception for understanding the experience of the majority of people who have difficulties with alcohol dependence at some...
Study Reveals Evidence Alcoholics Anonymous Works
Study Reveals Evidence, Alcoholics Anonymous Works Since the inception of Alcoholics Anonymous, many in the medical, addiction treatment and religious communities have questioned the effectiveness of twelve-step programs attempting to define success, track statistics and quantify the rates of recovery...
Neuroscience Reveals: Gratitude Rewires Your Brain to be Happier
Attitude of Gratitude We’ve all been in the meetings when someone gives the topic of “GRATITUDE” and most usually cringe or make trite comments? Why is that, especially for those in recovery whose lives, relationships, finances, legal problems careers, spirituality…
Unmanageability: A.A.’s Greatest Contribution to Addiction Treatment
Step One: Unmanagability We thought we share this important article on the second half of Step One. Often overlooked as we admit we are powerless, however, most individuals who are not “badly mangled” or at their “bottom” who do not…
7 Common Questions about Twelve Step Recovery Programs
How it works, why it works and who can benefit Admitting powerlessness. Humbly accepting your shortcomings. Understanding the exact nature of your wrongs. Removing defects of character. Making direct amends. Taking a fearless moral inventory. Improving your conscious contact. Experiencing…
Why Relapse Isn’t a Sign of Failure
Addiction relapse is akin to relapse for other chronic diseases. If you have ever tried to quit your addiction invariably at some point, you experienced relapse. The statistics on relapse are cloudy due to the definition of slip or relapse…
My Years in the Florida Shuffle of Drug Addiction
Cycling through relapse and recovery, and the industry that enables both. By Colton Wooten Illustration by Brian Stauffer October 14, 2019 For treatment centers, addiction can be turned into a constant flow of revenue. In February, 2017, I stepped off a…
Clearing Away the Confusion
Clearing Away the Confusion Widening the Lens on the Opioid Crisis With more than 70,200 deaths occurring in 2017, the public health crisis of fatal drug overdoses is headline news and shows no signs of abating (National Institute on Drug…
