What Is It About Abstinence?
I’ve watched perfectly intelligent individuals devote months or years or even a lifetime to attempts at a solution other than the obvious one – abstinence from the substances that plague them.
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Where Goals and Effectiveness Meet
Experience tells us that almost all of the wide variety of treatment strategies and models are around because they work well for someone.
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The Anger Trap
He can recite the Steps and thump the Big Book with the best of them, but somehow missed out on one of the truly important lessons of most people’s recovery — the need for a degree of personal serenity.
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Requisition for an Alcoholism Cure
Please get back to us as soon as you’ve perfected this cure. We can promise you massive profits, guaranteed.
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Compulsion
For many, because of compulsion, abstinence may turn out to be easier than re-establishing control.
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Compulsion Versus Control
Few of us are ever as dedicated to a goal as the addict is to seeking an alternative to abstinence.
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Addiction Treatment: The Double Standard
Addiction has been described as a chronic problem that we’ve attempted to treat as an acute illness –a big reason for the revolving door of relapse.
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Atheology for Recovery
Changing how we live isn’t easy to accomplish, even with step-by-step instructions.
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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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Treatment Outcomes: Does it Work?
Our longstanding practice of branding anyone who drank again a ‘failure’ kept us from recognizing very real success right under our noses.
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