Addiction Recovery Basics

In a News Release, a study showed:Statistical analyses … revealed that the more young adults play video games, the more frequent their involvement in risky behaviors like drinking and drug abuse. Young adults who played video games daily reported smoking pot almost twice as often as occasional players, and three times as often as those [...]

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It seems that a shared characteristic of people either in active addiction or early addiction recovery is that their relationships are damaged in certainly in need of repair.
Common advice given to people new in recovery is not to start any new relationships for the first year.  The rationale behind such advice is that [...]

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This concept of healthy relationships is clear, quick, and easily understood. Though the relationship concepts are simple they say so much.
Here You Go:

1. I can be me.
2. You can be you
3. We can be us.
4. I can grow.
5. You can grow.
6. We can grow together.

These steps are from The Struggle For Intimacy by Janet Geringer [...]

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Adult children of alcoholics, (ACOA),  can often be identified as certain signs and symptoms. These clusters of traits often dictate somewhat unique potential problems in addiction recovery.
Janet Geringer Woitiz, Ed.D, is a pioneer in family systems therapy and is help to define the field of adult children of alcoholics. In her book Adult Children [...]

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This article on bad relationships by Margaret Paul is one of the best I have found. In my opinion, there are 2 things people active in their addiction or entering early addiction recovery need help with are: feelings and emotions, and relationships.Many people in early recovery seek marriage relationship advice .
5 Relationship Killers and How [...]

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An enabler, unfortunately, many times is facilitating addiction through their well intentioned desire to help the addict or alcoholic.
How does this occur?
Consider the role of the addict; their intention is to continue the using behavior at all costs. What better way to continue that use than to enlist someone to ‘help’ him?
Without the enabler [...]

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These relationship boundary mistakes can block both communications and growth in your relationship. Do you know how to prevent them? Read on to find 4 important tips.
The ability to set relationship boundaries is a basic life skill or coping skill in interpersonal relationships.
Many people allow themselves to be imposed upon and even mistreated because [...]

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Do you have any of these common characteristics of adult children of alcoholics? Reading these article will provide some answers.
Children growing up in a family where alcoholism is present learn survival skills. Unfortunately these solutions don’t work well as adults.
Alcohol use within the family affects all members, not just the alcoholic. Children growing up [...]

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Bad relationships, dysfunctional relatationships; ralationships are almost always damaged by substance abuse. If an addict wants to coninue to use substances, the last thing they want to hear is a loved one telling them to stop. This is why the deeper we move into addiction, the deeper we move into isolation.
Here is a well written [...]

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Any relationship involves a certain degree of codependency. Here is a quiz designed to find out if you are codependent to a problematic degree. The terms enabler and codependent arise when speaking of the partner involved in a relationship with an addicted person, but the addict may also be codependent.

Any relationship that involves addiction sledom [...]

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