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Mapping AA: The Neuroscience of Addiction
Is Your Teen Abusing Alcohol or Drugs? What You Can Do to Help
Double Trouble: Cross- and Co-Occurring Addictions
7 Tips for Staying Positive in Recovery
Interventions with Active Sex Addicts
Elsa the Snow Queen and the Transformative Power of Self-Love
Top 5 Causes of Addiction Relapse
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Elements' Dr. David Sack on Psychology Today
When the professional community devalues 12-Step recovery as a lay cult, it heightens the mistrust within the 12-Step community and reinforces the tendency of its members to conflate the idea of a non-professional organization with hostility toward all medical research and advances. This problem explains in part why it has been so difficult to bring clinical advances developed in academic settings to the broader recovery community.
While the medical community defines addiction as a disease of the brain's reward circuitry, the 12-Step community sees addiction as a spiritual malady of self-centeredness. So how does one reconcile fundamentally distinct views on the nature of addiction?
A central question, particularly for critics, is why, exactly, does 12-Step recovery work? Read more... |
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Right Step | July 1, 2014
Although teens can be quite good at hiding their drug or alcohol use, there are almost always signs - if you know what to look for. Also, don't assume that any drug or substance is off-limits. Today's teens are exposed to more drugs than you might imagine. Not to mention, some of the most widely abused substances can be found right at home or purchased from the local drug store.
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Elements' Rob Weiss, MSW in Counselor Magazine
With cross-addiction, addicts switch from one problematic substance/behavior to another. If they can't use one substance/activity to escape and dissociate from life, they'll use another.
With co-occurring addiction, addicts utilize multiple addictions simultaneously. Cross- and co-occurring addictions are especially common among men and women who act out sexually.
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Promises | July 8, 2014
Getting clean and sober is a tremendous accomplishment. It takes time and effort, and sometimes a fair amount of pain and struggle. But over time, the struggle fades and the day-to-day living becomes routine once again - you regain enough trust from your family to go back to functioning in the new normal way. You get your 90 meetings in 90 days completed. You regain some respect at work. Life goes on.
But relapse is a real possibility - everyone who has gotten sober has heard the stories of those who struggle to remain so. Relapse is common and often devastating. So how can you use positive psychology to improve your chances at not only getting sober, but staying sober?
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Sexual Recovery Institute | June 24, 2014
What do you do when you spot several of the primary indicators and think a loved one may need intervention? Usually, the best thing you can do is talk with that person openly and honestly, without being judgmental. Usually the best way to confront a possible sex addict is to start out by saying you are concerned about his or her wellbeing, and you think there might be a problem. Then you can list a few of the concrete, undeniable facts that are causing you to worry. After presenting the factual information that is causing you concern, you can tell them that although you love them dearly, you are no longer willing to sit idly and watch while they ruin their life and the lives of the people who love them. Read more... |
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Right Step's Dr. Jason Powers in HuffPost Healthy Living
Life lessons come to us from many sources. But who would expect to receive a message relevant, even central, to the recovery process from drug and alcohol addiction at an elementary school graduation? Delivered by, of all people, a woman dressed as the title character from a hit animated Disney film. Read more... |
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The Recovery Place | July 3, 2014
There are a million reasons why someone like Jason relapses, but addiction specialists agree that avoiding triggers-the situations and emotions that make drugs attractive-is half the battle. While relapse may happen for some and not others, it's important to remember that relapse does not mean failure. Read more... |
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