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(Grand)Parenting Children of Active Addicts
When adult children battle addiction, how do you support your grandchildren without enabling their parents? Read on for the do's and dont's.
Restarting after Relapse - Maintaining Your Hope for Recovery
Relapse is common in recovery. But with perseverance, support, and a willingness to learn, every relapse can be an opportunity for growth and progress. Keep getting back up and moving forward towards a better life.
Too Smart for AA? Don't Overthink It - Make Changes and Have Faith in the Process
Early recovery is a difficult time. We must keep it simple and have an open mind, if we are to find our way to a better life.
Is Addiction a Choice or Disease?
Addiction is not a choice but life-threatening disease. Unfortunately, many people still believe addiction is a choice - and it's a serious problem.
ADHD Addiction Treatment - How Learning to Focus Helps You Succeed
If you can’t focus to complete essential tasks you’ll create unnecessary stress - and stress definitely ups your risk of relapse. Safeguard your recovery by learning focus skills that make it easier to stay on task.
What's the DSM-5, Why Does It Matter and What’s Your New Diagnosis?
With the DSM-5 the American Psychiatric Association has a new diagnostic manual. Substance abuse and dependence are now gone - replaced by mild, moderate and severe substance use disorders. Will the changes affect you? Check out the new diagnostic criteria to find out if you have a substance use disorder.
Antidepressants and Alcohol – A Guide to SSRIs in Addiction Treatment
Should you take an antidepressant during early recovery - or while still drinking/using? Does your substance abuse cause your depression or is it the other way around? Read on for an overview of your options and for more information on when SSRIs will help, and when they won’t.
10 Best Recovery Slogans & How to Apply Them
Folks in 12 step programs understand that in early recovery, we can't remember things even if we want to. They provide us with acronyms and simple sayings that speak volumes.
10 Things You Can Do to Support Your Loved One’s Recovery
Supporting recovery - you're probably unsure about what's helpful and appropriate. The list below may surprise you. Here's how you can help.
Addiction Recovery: How to Protect Your Privacy While Getting the Help You Need
Staying anonymous in a social media world - how to balance getting the recovery support you need with maintaining anonymity.
Are You Addicted? Use the American Psychiatric Association's Assessment Test to Find Out
How serious is your problem? Take the APA's 11 question test to self-diagnose the situation.
The 10 Best Addiction Recovery and Mental Health Articles of 2012!
The most talked about, most influential and most important (helpful) addiction and mental health articles of the past 12 months.
Tips for Healing the Body, Mind and Spirit after Addiction
Addiction is a disease that damages the body, mind and spirit. Here's a how-to guide to healing your physical, mental and spiritual health once in recovery.
How to Support Addicted Loved-Ones without Enabling
You have to let them face their natural consequences, but does that mean there's nothing you can do to help? Fortunately, you CAN support without enabling and your assistance today can make a big difference for their tomorrow.
Pink Clouds & Other Pitfalls in Recovery
Early recovery is an emotional rollercoaster. We want to celebrate, recruit others to join our new fantastic way of life, make up for lost time and take on way too much all at once! With patience and prioritizing you can enjoy all the good without falling back into the bad.
Want Quality Treatment? Evidence-Based Therapies Increase Your Chances of Lasting Addiction Recovery
If you want to be sure you'll get value and benefit from an addiction treatment program, make sure they offer evidence based therapies - interventions that are actually proven to work!
Rebuilding a Relationship after Your Partner Gets Clean and Sober
Your partner's in recovery... now what? Tips on rebuilding a relationship while making your own needs a priority: building trust - one day at a time, setting measurable goals to work toward, taking care of yourself... rather than your partner.
Adolescent and Young Adult ADHD and Substance Abuse - How to Intervene
Children with ADHD face a variety of challenges when they first leave home. What can parents do if they start to see signs of substance abuse in their newly independent young adult children?
Addiction – A Brain Disease, Not a Moral Failing
As much as some would like to call those with addiction weak willed or immoral, the truth of it is that addiction is simply a treatable brain disease.
Addicted to Alcohol? Learn About Alcoholism & Treatment
The difference between alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction (alcoholism), what puts you at risk of becoming an alcoholic and what to do once you’ve crossed that invisible line to addiction.
Cocaine Addiction - What Happens in the Brain? Why Is It So Hard to Just Stop?
Learn how gradual and imperceptible changes to the brain’s structure and function lead people steadily from recreational use to heavier use to addiction.
"My husband is an alcoholic... please, what can I do?"
Being trapped is most often a state of mind. Are you looking for answers that you know deep down don’t exist? The simple truth is hard to hear.
Understanding the ‘Dry Drunk': The Challenges and the Steps to Permanent Change
Understanding what it means to be a "dry drunk" and un-learning negative behaviors can pave the way to permanent recovery.
Addict but Not Alcoholic, Is It Ever Safe to Drink Again?
If you're an in-recovery drug addict, but not an alcoholic, can you ever drink alcohol again? Learn how to decide for yourself.
Addiction in the Elderly - Is Grandma Addicted?
Why do older people become addicts? What drugs are they likely to abuse? What to do if you suspect your beloved senior citizen relative is using drugs.
Do You Have an Addictive Personality? How to Tame Your Drives
While "addictive personality" is not an actual diagnosis it does seem that many people who do not abuse substances still show aspects of addictive behavior.
Late-Stage Sobriety - Facing Recovery and Serious Health Conditions
Addiction may cause debilitating or even fatal health conditions. How do you start recovery when you've already done so much damage? This article explores the worth and benefits of late-stage recovery.
Understanding Addiction - The Roles of Impulsivity and Compulsivity
Learn how the brain changes of addiction exacerbate problems with impulsive and compulsive acts – how impulsivity drives early addiction and compulsivity and impulsivity perpetuate later stages and most importantly, what you can do to retake control.
Addiction Treatment for Doctors: Overcoming Obstacles to Change
Personal, occupational, and societal expectation placed on doctors and other prescribing clinicians are risk factors for addiction and obstacles to recovery.
Celebrities in Rehab - Media Offering Addiction as Scandalous Entertainment
We've known for decades that mental health and addictions are medical conditions. Media depictions continue to yield unrealistic views of social problems and those afflicted.