If You Have an Employee With a Substance Use Disorder, You Could Be Their LifelineAddiction, Addiction Recovery, Alcoholism, Professionals Treatment & Issues, RecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthNovember 23, 2016When the holiday season arrives, workplace parties are a common form of celebration. Some amount of alcohol consumption is expected during these events, and most who attend will drink responsibly and in moderation.
Soccer Legend Wambach Scores New Goal — SobrietyRecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthSeptember 13, 2016On the soccer field, she may have seemed superhuman. But in her personal life, she was anything but, says Abby Wambach, the world’s leading scorer in international goals.
Sober Stick Figure: A New Life for the Life of the PartyRecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthJune 2, 2016In many ways, it was a morning like any other. Amber Tozer awoke with a raging hangover after too much partying and too much wine and vowed never to drink again.
Cassava℠ Free Addiction Recovery App Now Available for Android DevicesElements News, News and ResearchBy Promises Behavioral HealthJuly 6, 2015The CassavaSM addiction recovery app, launched in April for iPhone, is now available for Android devices. The app features daily affirmations and recovery tips, a personal journal, and a comprehensive database with more than 140,000 12-step and non-12-step listings to help app users locate support group meetings, whether at home or on the road.
#14 Days on the WagonCulture & MediaBy Promises Behavioral HealthOctober 8, 2014Are you ready to take a dare? Can you go two weeks without hoisting a pint, sipping chardonnay, or slinging a shot? What would it be like to abandon alcohol for two weeks? Parvati Shallow of CBS News challenges viewers to do just that. She writes, “Nearly 23 million Americans need treatment for a drug or…
September Is Recovery Month: Telling Our Stories to HealRecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthSeptember 16, 2014When I was 5 years old, I changed my name to Susan Cinderella and invented a world where a cat was my mother and all the other grown-ups were animals, too. I loved climbing trees, wearing my brother’s too-big Levis overalls and running in soybean fields without shoes. I sniffed the roadside buttercups. I wanted…
Socializing Sober: Tips for Surviving Ignorant RemarksRecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 16, 2014When you first get sober, you may avoid attending weddings or other social events where people may be drinking or drugging. But sooner or later, you attend one of these events, knowing that picking up a drink or a drug to be sociable isn’t an option for you. Some people choose to preserve their anonymity.…
Staying Sober on Cinco de Mayo: Virgin Margaritas, DUI CheckpointsRecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthMay 5, 2014Cinco de Mayo is like other holidays during which there is so much over-drinking that police plan on it. Besides offering widespread DUI checkpoints, authorities advise celebrants to stay sober — or at least sober behind the wheel — for a safe, no-regrets celebration.
10 Tips for Meeting Your New Year’s GoalsRecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthJanuary 8, 2014By now, the tinsel and streamers from New Year’s Eve celebrations have been swept away, party attire carefully put back into garment bags and closets, and it’s back to work and time to get serious about recovery goals. Faced with 12 months ahead and a list of resolutions you have no idea how to tackle,…
Give Thanks for Sobriety, Make New Memories in RecoveryRecoveryBy Promises Behavioral HealthNovember 27, 2013If it sometimes seems like you can’t escape the memories of your addictive past, there is a solution: The only way to get past the past involves forgiving yourself for whatever you have done and then to get busy living life in the present, making new memories. This holiday season, while others you know and…
