Substance Abuse RecoveryWhat does Substance Abuse recovery look like? You may imagine yourself on a recovery path that is smooth, wide and straight. Or your path may be winding and narrow, with rocks and overgrowth blocking your progress. Maybe your recovery isn’t a path at all, but a seemingly endless cycle of using and not…

Introduction to Drug Treatment for Alcoholism 12-Step Alcoholism is a tragic and lonely disease! Like other forms of addiction, as people they become more dependent on alcohol, they isolate themselves, cutting themselves off from family, friends and activities they used to enjoy. Even when they want to come out of that world, they think they…

Intervention for addiction: If you are a friend or a family member of someone who is either abusing drugs or already addicted, you’re probably wondering what you can do to help.Addict ALWAYS says: “Not MY problem, it’s YOUR problem!”The biggest problem you face is that the abuser or addict thinks this is YOUR problem, or…

Amphetamine Addiction Stories are ImportantIn meeting and working with addiction recovery patients over the years I have found that one of the most important aspects of their recovery is having the opportunity to share their story, their life experience. Amphetamine addiction stories don’t often have a happy ending but what ever the ending sharing them…

Christian Drug Rehab What is that “Power greater than ourselves” or who is “God, as we understood him” or what assurance do we have that any religious treatment or recovery program will work? Depending on where you go so seek information, or to whom you go for counsel, the answers to these questions can be…

Denial a Huge Problem Crystal Meth Addiction Intervention: If you are a friend or a family member of someone who is either abusing drugs or already addicted, you’re probably wondering what you can do to help. The biggest problem you face is that the abuser or addict thinks this is YOUR problem, or you’re making…