What to Look for in a Sponsor
Sponsors, the saying goes, carry the message, not the alcoholic.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Crisis Management Cheat Sheet
This ‘cheat sheet’ is a quick reminder about some very basic principles of relating to a person who happens to be in crisis.
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Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 9
Their fondness for risk and excitement makes them ill-suited to a ‘straight’ lifestyle they would no doubt describe as boring.
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What KIND of Disease is Addiction?
Most communities provide both options for opioid patients, and lacking a methadone for alcohol or cocaine, use a more traditional abstinence-based approach for those addictions.
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Seven Tips for Getting Started Right With AA
The more we exert ourselves to help those with problems like ours, the more concrete benefits we receive from AA.
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