Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome | PAWS – First Survey Now Available
Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) is a term to describe a condition that can cause a person in recovery from drugs or alcohol addiction to relapse. James F. Davis, a Board Certified Interventionist and an expert on Post Acute Withdrawal and the Kindling Effect, shared recently on BreakingTheCycles.com his excellent article, “Why We Relapse: Post…
Read MoreAnxiety and Depression – Does Your Inner Critic Control Your Mind?
Anxiety and depression often occur hand-in-hand with that constant voice – what our guest author, Bill White, MS, LLPC, calls our “Inner Critic.” And it’s that Inner Critic that can stymie addiction, mental illness and/or secondhand drinking recovery. To help us better understand this whole concept and what one can do, please find the following…
Read MoreHow Do You Get Someone to Stop Drinking – CRAFT – an Intervention Alternative Explained
How do you get someone to stop drinking or abusing drugs? Can you even do it? Don’t they have to hit bottom first? And where is the bottom? And if it’s your child, how do you ever walk away or set a boundary that could mean they don’t go to college in the fall or…
Read MoreAddiction Relapse | Death By Addiction – Let’s Honor Corey Monteith By…
Addiction relapse | death by addiction. It’s tragic. It’s unacceptable. It’s stoppable. Yes – stoppable. Cory Monteith lost his life to the RELAPSING brain disease of addiction on Saturday, July 13, 2014. But Cory was not the only one who died of this disease or an accidental overdose of drugs and/or alcohol that day. In…
Read MoreMatthew Perry and All Rise Advocate for Drug Courts
Drug Courts provide a phenomenal service to the non-violent offender, their family and society as a whole. How? Because they treat the root cause of the problem – drug addiction. Given addiction is now scientifically understood to be a chronic, often relapsing – but entirely treatable – brain disease, it is little wonder an addict…
Read MoreWhy Is There Depression If We Can Control Our Thoughts
Why is there depression if we are supposedly able to control our feelings by changing our thoughts? This question struck me this week as I grappled with my own several days of feeling sad, blue, kinda lost, asking myself, “What am I doing?” It started off on the heals of a few days of some…
Read MoreHow Does a Family Navigate the First Year of Recovery
So how in the world does a FAMILY navigate a loved one’s first year of recovery from addiction (whether to drugs or alcohol)? Is it even any of their business? Can they share their concerns with their loved one or will that cause their loved one to relapse? What are they supposed to do, now?…
Read MoreFamily Law Discrimination Against Recovering Alcoholics | Addicts
Family law discrimination against recovering alcoholics | addicts is pervasive, mostly because family law attorneys, judges and the clients themselves do not understand addiction (to alcohol or drugs) for what it is – a chronic, but TREATABLE, brain disease, nor do they understand addiction recovery. And so they see the person – the addict |…
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