AA’s Effectiveness
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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by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 9, 2020 | Recovery | 0 |
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.
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 8, 2017 | Programs | 1 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 21, 2016 | Addiction Clinicians, People in Recovery | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 3, 2015 | Recovery | 2 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 9, 2015 | Recovery, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 15, 2015 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
by Cecile | Dec 25, 2014 | People in Recovery | 0 |
Reclaiming holidays doesn’t just keep them from becoming relapse triggers– it can also offer chances to live the joy in recovery.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 17, 2014 | People in Recovery | 4 |
When I first got into counseling, I had this sneaky feeling that it couldn’t possibly be that simple.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 3, 2014 | Recovery, Thinking About Addiction | 1 |
People attend AA for a variety of reasons, in different stages of readiness, and with diverse objectives in mind.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 7, 2014 | Addiction Clinicians | 4 |
You might as well write ‘I don’t want you to go to AA’ in big letters on the wall behind the therapist’s chair. It’s about that obvious.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 5, 2014 | Addiction Clinicians | 6 |
12 Step literature suggests that sponsors stick with advice on how to work the Steps, rather than stray into realms better left to trained professionals.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 8, 2014 | Addiction | 1 |
After years in the drug world, it may not be easy for someone new to recovery to fit comfortably into the larger society. It helps to find people such as yourself– who used to use drugs but no longer do– to relate to.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 7, 2014 | Recovery, Thinking About Addiction | 4 |
AA and NA aren’t designed to have a ‘success rate’. Their mission is to reach out a helping hand to those who still suffer.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 29, 2013 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Sending somebody to meetings without some prep work is like making a referral for therapy without bothering to find a therapist.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 22, 2013 | People in Recovery | 0 |
“How will your program curriculum and staff work for someone who doesn’t believe in a god?”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 30, 2013 | People in Recovery | 2 |
Addicts and alcoholics follow a fairly predictable route from drinking/using to stable abstinence and recovery, whether they believe in God or not.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 26, 2013 | People in Recovery | 0 |
The more we exert ourselves to help those with problems like ours, the more concrete benefits we receive from AA.
Read Moreby Cecile | Jan 7, 2013 | Public Policy, Recovery | 0 |
Recovery-friendly communities encourage education, provide support for open communications, and reject assumptions that perpetuate stigma.
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