What is evidence-based treatment? Evidence-based treatment is a treatment based on years of scientific research and observation. Tangible and measurable data back it. Therefore, it has a certain level of credibility based on previous results. An addiction rehab center utilizes evidence-based treatment to help people with drug or alcohol addiction. There are several characteristics of evidence-based treatment,…
Addiction never discriminates. This problem can affect people from all walks of life without regard to social status, ethnicity, or even gender. It is a common misconception that it is mostly men who struggle with a substance abuse problem and go to a drug addiction treatment program, but that simply is not the case. When it comes…
How to Intervene on an Alcoholic Families of alcoholics often wonder how they should properly intervene. What many families don’t realize is that alcoholism is actually a disease in need of treatment. Although they mean well, they often go about trying to get their loved ones into treatment in the wrong way. You might be in…
It’s important to recognize that the various forms of treatment that are used in alcohol and drug rehab centers have a lot of value in the lives of the people they touch. 12 Step Programs have been crucial to the recovery of so many, and the Serenity Prayer has given strength and courage to those…
“Made a searching and fearless moral inventories of ourselves.” The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, the Fourth Step The Twelve Steps can be thought of as your roadmap to recovery. When you get to the Fourth Step, you are starting to make some real progress. You still have a long way to go on your…
“Maybe waking up clearheaded, able to remember falling asleep the night before, doesn’t strike you as worth much, but I remember realizing in my third year of recovery that that’s exactly how I’d been living since giving up drinking, and I had a moment of appreciation.” ~ Kevin Griffin, Recovering Joy: a Mindful Life after…
What Does the Saying One Day at a Time Mean? “Recovery is built one day at a time, one moment at a time, one event at a time, one relationship at a time – just like every brick and stone and that Great Wall. Successful recovery is not built without a plan. The Great Wall…
Moving: One of Life’s Big Stressors I moved states at the beginning of this year, at almost three years sober I was leaving the town I got sober in, the town where my support was, and the town that I felt comfortable in. One thing about my alcoholism is that it hates change; the disruption…
In my journey of recovery there were many unsuccessful starts. They were unsuccessful for many different reasons I believe, but I can distill them down to two basic flaws: lack of honesty and lack of willingness. My 12-Step Experience Presently, I belong to and am very active in two 12 step fellowships. I have “belonged”…
I was at a 12 step meeting this morning and the reading was on relapse. Relapse is a significant part of my story, although I sometimes don’t view it as relapse; rather it feels more one long period of active addiction punctuated by sporadic and brief interludes of abstinence. Previously, I was never able to…