Raising Awareness About Addiction and Recovery – How One Community Did It
Raising awareness about addiction and recovery – Massac County Drug Awareness Coalition in Metropolis, Illinois, saw a need and filled it. Last Saturday, the Coalition partnered with Heroes in Recovery and the Metropolis Public Library to gather donated books from addiction and recovery book authors to stock a “Recovery Shelf” at the library, read to children,…
Read MoreFrom Depression and Addiction to Survival & Revival – Erika Cormier
Depression and addiction often go hand-in-hand. Today’s guest post by Erika Cormier, author of As the Smoke Clears, a Memoir, is a powerful introduction to the spiral and devastation this combination wrecks in a person’s life and the equally crippling road-block to recovery, “low self-esteem when we enter recovery and an immense burden of shame and…
Read MoreChoosing Not to Drink – Meet Lucy Rocca
Please meet Lucy Rocca who chose to stop drinking in 2011! There is a great deal of confusion, stigma, shame and discrimination surrounding addiction, addiction treatment, addiction recovery and whether a person even has to say they are “In Recovery” or call themselves an alcoholic in order to get sober. Yet those who have the disease of…
Read MoreLiving in this Particular Moment
We often hear talk about “living in the moment.” But what does this mean and how does one do it? Sharing his thoughts on the concept is today’s guest, Addiction Recovery Coach, Roger Stark, and author of the book, The Waterfall Concept: a Blueprint for Recovery. To learn more about Roger’s work and his book, please visit…
Read MoreHelp for Families of Addicts | Alcoholics – Interview with Authors Jeffrey Foote and Nicole Kosanke
Help for families of addicts | alcoholics – specifically – is the focus of the just released book, Beyond Addiction, How Science and Kindness Help People Change. It is estimated over 100 million people are affected by a person’s substance abuse problem – 100 million! That is roughly one-third of the American population. And yet, a family…
Read MoreThe Need to Make Addiction Treatment More Accessible
One of the most difficult aspects of the work I do is constantly butting up against the utter lack of understanding of the disease of addiction and what it takes to treat it. And it’s not just the lack of understanding, it’s how that lack translates as indifference, denial, outright prejudice, stigma and shame, which…
Read MoreBetrayal – An Assault on One’s Ability to Trust
Betrayal comes in many forms and is certainly a huge part of the relationship dynamics in families with untreated addiction or substance abuse, as family members jockey to accommodate, forgive, deflect or disbelieve the substance misuser’s promises to stop or cut down. In the following guest post, Darlene Lancer, JD, MFT, and author of Codependency…
Read MoreBehavioral Health in the United States
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA) has issued a new report on the behavioral health of citizens in the United States. It is the first edition of SAMHSA’s Behavioral Health Barometer: United States, which will be one of a series of State and national reports that provide a snapshot of the state of behavioral…
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