Topic: maintaining sobriety
Searching for a Substitute
If addiction really is a brain disorder based in complex adaptations to a substance, then who’s to say those adaptations won’t occur with a different drug?
Topics: maintaining sobriety, types of treatment
Anonymity Dilemma
…struggles can actually serve as a disincentive to someone who knows you and is now beginning to peer uncertainly up their own long and bumpy road of life change.
Topics: 12Step, getting help, maintaining sobriety
Five Amazing Life Lessons Recovery Taught Me
Ralph nailed it. He’s right- what’s in the past and what’s in our future is nothing compared to what is ultimately inside us.
Topics: maintaining sobriety, mindfulness
Recovery Homes
We have to ensure the safety and security of those who reside there. It’s not the sort of business that naturally self-regulates. That’s what government is for.
Topics: long term treatment, maintaining sobriety, policy
Relapse is Not Failure
I felt detached from life and the people around me. I felt like a failure, but I had no other choice but to get back on my feet and try again.
Topics: maintaining sobriety, relapse
Compliance via Incentives
An important step that programs often skip: the collection of baseline data. Improvements are often incremental, and if you don’t know exactly where you started, it’s easy to miss them.
Topics: compliance, maintaining sobriety, program development
Compliance via Fellowship
In his review of long-term outcome studies involving both alcohol and heroin users, Vaillant noted the inspirational aspects of such participation.
Topics: compliance, maintaining sobriety, Recovery Support Groups
Is it Recovery Yet?
It may seem to the individual as if it happens by itself– the result of an autopilot, set to return home.
Topics: maintaining sobriety, relapse