SAMHSA defines it as “A process of change through which individuals improve their
health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.”
Maybe they just saw it as none of their damn business, so long as he showed up on time and didn’t embarrass them. It’s the sort of accommodation people make all the time in response to someone else’s excessive drinking in a social or work situation.
As a bottom line, the research findings to seem to show many millions of our neighbors successfully resolving their problems with substances.
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She probably felt Adderall didn’t count because it was prescribed. A common mistake.
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Folks who expect treatment to ‘cure’ an addiction often resume use once they’ve satisfied themselves that now, with a period of abstinence behind them, the problem has been resolved.
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…in the counseling field we frequently run into people who appear to have reached a point where they can’t let anything pass by without confrontation.
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For most recovering folks, establishing sobriety included a conscious, deliberate commitment to healthy involvement with others in recovery, accepting guidance and support instead of relying solely on one’s own resources.
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I remember one expert’s claim that it wasn’t unusual for someone to require seven treatment episodes to establish a stable recovery.
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She began to recognize how vulnerable everyone was to something about which so little was understood.
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And the principle on which his transition plan would have been based is adaptability to the unforeseen.
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We just expected people to get well faster, only because they were no longer bombarding their brains with chemicals.
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The question is, when you have all those years of apparently successful recovery, why throw it aside? How could that improve your situation?
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I simply ask them what else they plan to do to stay clean and sober? Turns out that’s a far more difficult question to answer.
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