Addiction Recovery Basics

There are a number of ways of looking at alcohol addiction. One definition is that alcoholism is a chronic, prgressive disease. Here is an article that breaks the progression of alcoholism into three phases of addiction.

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One of the most dangerous prescription painkillers is Oxycodone. Oxycodone is a drug available by prescription that is an opiate and it acts as a depressant of the central nervous system.

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It used to drive me crazy early in addiction recovery when people would say ‘Bill you’re just not getting it’. I wanted to know how you are measuring my progress in addiction recovery, and by what standards are you judging me and saying that I'm not getting it.

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by Jerry Goldfarb

The Holistic approach to medicine and treatment holds that human beings have a body, a mind and a spirit…

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by Jerry Goldfarb
Alcoholism and drug addiction has reached epic proportions in the 21st century…

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It is the 12 steps of AA and the 12 traditions of AA, that have kept millions sober over the years. It wasn't AA that got me sober, it was good drug and alcohol treatment that did that. It was AA that kept me sober on an ongoing basis. I gladly attribute still being in addiction recovery to the 12 step programs

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