No, Recovery Isn’t Easy
The reality is, there are significant barriers to overcome. One of the more common ones is that pesky internal debate over whether or not one is really, truly, addicted.
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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.”
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AA and the Atheist
Of course, now there are quite a few alternatives, secular in orientation. AA continues to have advantages for many recovering people — for one thing, it’s very available in most communities, and for another, it’s free.
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Tapering off sleeping pills
It doesn’t much matter whether the primary addiction was to a depressant or a stimulant or some combination of both – sleep difficulties often persist well into recovery.
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Flavor Flav’s New Flavor
…nowadays Flavor Flav is repping the sober life. Calling on today’s rap artists to “do better when it comes to depicting drug use in their lyrics.”
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Another Actor Talks Recovery
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.
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Two Stories, Different Endings
I’ve always been a bit nervous when I see somebody new in recovery get themselves deeply involved in one sort of crusade or another.
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Some Good Advice
This woman’s in trouble. And on some level, I expect she knows it. But hasn’t yet mustered the courage to deal with it.
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First Person: A “Friends” Story
Not an unusual path for the disease to take. That year of deliberate abstention indicates that Perry was aware that his problems were growing worse.
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The Natural History of Recovery – Cannabis
That reminded me of the advice given to newcomers who thought they didn’t need treatment, to “give it your best shot, and if things don’t work out, come back and see us.”
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QiGong for Addiction?
Reports of spiritual conversion experiences aren’t particularly rare. Bill Wilson, one of AA’s founders, had one of his own.
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Recovery is More Common Than We Suspect
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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Death of a True Believer
She probably felt Adderall didn’t count because it was prescribed. A common mistake.
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