BreakingTheCycles.com 10 Year Anniversary | Sharing Favorite Posts

BreakingTheCycles.com 10 year anniversary — its hard for me to believe it’s already been 10 years! I started BreakingTheCycles.com in 2008 to provide education, prevention and intervention information and services rooted in 21st Century brain science for a range of addiction-related concerns, including: substance abuse, mental illness, addiction* as a brain disease, secondhand drinking, toxic stress,…

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Recovery Tools as Close as Your iPhone

Recovery tools on an iPhone app? I was so taken with Holly Hess’s story of her codependency recovery journey and her husband’s addiction recovery journey and how she took their experiences and merged them with her professional IT talents to recreate a tool box of recovery in an iPhone app, that I invited her to…

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How Prescription Medications Can Lead to Harder Drugs

Prescription medications — just because they are medication prescribed by a doctor does not necessarily make them safe. The following is a guest post by Art Coburn, founder of HeroinAddictionHelpGuide.com. Art is a recovering addict and his goal is to “help others and let them know that they too can get clean and sober.” He…

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What is an Intervention?

An intervention is an effort to confront (in a loving manner) a friend or family member’s substance misuse. To help readers understand what’s involved, Rachel Corbett, Business Development Director, and Alexander Tellez, Director of Administration, of Recovery Power Intervention Programs, a professional services organization providing intervention, recovery and care management services, shared the following guest…

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