Help for Families | Secondhand Drinking | Codependency
Addiction Recovery Therapy Options
There’s a common perception that AA and NA or another 12-step program are “the” way to recover from addiction or Secondhand Drinking (in which case, the 12-step programs are Al-Anon and Nar-Anon). And let me say right off – these are wonderful programs for millions of people! But they don’t work for millions more and…
Read MoreWhy Addiction Relapse Can Be Stronger Than the Determination to Stay Clean
Addiction relapse – meaning the addict | alcoholic goes back to using drugs or alcohol – is another of the confounding aspects of this brain disease – the brain disease of addiction (aka brain disorder). Not only is the addiction relapse confounding, but equally confusing is the idea that relapse does not mean treatment failed. Really!…
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 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 |…
Read MoreDitching Denial, Befriending Change
Ditching denial is critical to making changes if one is struggling with addiction or is the family members of someone who is struggling with substance misuse. Why is it such an important first step? And how does one go about doing it? To answer these questions and others, the Team at ‘letsmote.com shares the following…
Read MoreWhy Just Say No Typically Doesn’t Work
Just Say No is a well-intended message and prevention effort. Unfortunately, it typically does not work with young people due to four key problems with the message. But, thanks to new imaging technologies of the past 10-15 years and the intensive, extensive studies of the live human brain in action, over time, under the influence,…
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