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Finding a Skeptical Starting Point
“How will your program curriculum and staff work for someone who doesn’t believe in a god?”
When You Love a Shapeshifter
The drugs or alcohol have turned someone you love into a monster. How can we turn them back?
Recovery Works for EVERYONE
Recovery is not only good for the individual but also good for the nation’s health and economy.
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Families Blogs
Mental Illness: The Dilemma of Diagnosis
In spite of the advances, science still struggles to understand the disease process that underlies most disorders.
DSM5 – The Great Debaters
In a sense we’re just describing disorders that we only partly understand.
More on Mental Illness: Genetics
As a general rule, the better the causes of a disease are understood, the more effective the treatments will be.
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Recovery Works for EVERYONE
Recovery is not only good for the individual but also good for the nation’s health and economy.
Pathways: From the Culture of Addiction to the Culture of Recovery
An excellent and comprehensive guide even for very experienced professionals, it also had great value for me in my own experience of recovery.
Brain Chemistry and Addiction
This might help to explain why even addicts who have been ‘clean’ for extended periods are unable to return to drug use without further problems.
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Clinician Blogs
Mental Illness: The Dilemma of Diagnosis
In spite of the advances, science still struggles to understand the disease process that underlies most disorders.
DSM5 – The Great Debaters
In a sense we’re just describing disorders that we only partly understand.
More on Mental Illness: Genetics
As a general rule, the better the causes of a disease are understood, the more effective the treatments will be.
Resources
Whose Life is it, Anyway?
It’s often difficult for family members to see the real extent and nature of the damage addiction has caused to themselves and the family.
Recovery Works for EVERYONE
Recovery is not only good for the individual but also good for the nation’s health and economy.
Relapse Traps Inventory
Focusing on the areas most likely to challenge sobriety can help the person in recovery prepare positive responses.
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Programs Blogs
Surviving Program Surveys
The most common error is to assume your program is running pretty well and will therefore get a good result on the survey.
Mental Illness: The Dilemma of Diagnosis
In spite of the advances, science still struggles to understand the disease process that underlies most disorders.
DSM5 – The Great Debaters
In a sense we’re just describing disorders that we only partly understand.
Newest Resources
Finding a Skeptical Starting Point
“How will your program curriculum and staff work for someone who doesn’t believe in a god?”
Whose Life is it, Anyway?
It’s often difficult for family members to see the real extent and nature of the damage addiction has caused to themselves and the family.
When You Love a Shapeshifter
The drugs or alcohol have turned someone you love into a monster. How can we turn them back?
