Motivation And Inspiration

December 26, 2009

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Choices – Inspiration and motivation

www.inspirationalquotesworld.com Inspirational quotes slideshow with beautiful scenery about the choices we make in our life. I hope you will be inspired to make your life a masterpiece. If you believe in limitations you will have them but if you believe you can do anything you can. So why not choose [...]

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Al-Anon And Alateen, Are You Aware Of The Critical Lessons They Teach?

December 23, 2009

Al-Anon and Alateen are support groups for family members or friends of alcoholics that incorporate the 12 steps. These programs are designed to provide a knowledge base and a support system to help families learn some basic principles about addiction being a family disease. The primary lesson taught is that families are not responsible for [...]

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Most Commonly Abused Types of Drugs

December 14, 2009

Most commonly abused classes of prescription drugs

Opioids, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, which are most often prescribed to treat pain;
Central nervous system (CNS) depressants, such as Valium and Xanax, which are used to treat anxiety and sleep disorders; and
Stimulants, which are prescribed to treat certain sleep disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and include [...]

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Addiction Recovery Poetry

December 11, 2009

In wandering around the addiction recovery community on the web, I met Gregory Smitheman. He expresses his sobriety through poetry. Check out his addiction recovery poetry website at Elite Poetry.
Lost Souls
We must first bridge the gap of isolation
By doing so we form our future & fix decimation
Unavailing times call for desperate [...]

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Drug Abuse Myths Exploded, Out Of The Darkness Into The Light

December 8, 2009

Being confronted with misinformation about drug addiction is a daily occurrence when trying to shed light in alcoholism and drug addiction. Perhaps the hardest thing in the world is explaining addiction and addiction recovery to people unaffected by the disease. It really is hard for folks to ‘get it’. Perhaps exploding some myths may help.
Exploring [...]

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Getting The Word Out About Addiction Recovery

December 7, 2009

You may or may not be aware that getting help for somebody with addiction recovery can be a difficult process especially from the financial end. The insurance industry and healthcare industry has basically stacked the odds against us. There’s been a fight for many years for people with drug and alcohol addiction to gain equality [...]

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Great Guest Post – 10 Reasons that Addicts and Alcoholics Fail in Early Recovery

November 28, 2009

My good friend Patrick Meninga over at  Spiritual River just made a great post.
I want to encourage you to visit his blog so I will sneakily only publish the bottom 5 reasons here. To view the top 5 reasons you will have to click here.
10. They do not take direction from others about how [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving – The Road Not Taken

November 26, 2009

In retrospect, my journeys in addiction and my journeys in recovery have always been symbolized by forks in the road. At key times in my life I’ve taken the wrong for and at other times the right for.
This Thanksgiving I will do what I’ve done for the last several years, grab a good book bury [...]

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Facts On Addiction To Drugs And Alcohol In America

November 18, 2009

There are millions of Americans in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, improving the lives of individuals, families and communities.
Faces & Voices advocates for a recovery research agenda to provide policymakers, the media and citizens with more information on the pathways that these people have taken on their recovery journeys, as [...]

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Only 5% Of Addicts In Recovery Make It, Baloney, Addiction Treatment Works: Here Are The Facts

November 16, 2009

I get so angry when sometimes well-intentioned people will make statements to the effect of only 5%, 10% of the people make it in addiction recovery. How disheartening for somebody who’s trying to turn their life around to statements like that. Why not focus on the fact that addiction treatment works.
Just today I attended a [...]

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Stop Using Alcohol And Drugs: The Easy Way, But You Won’t Like The Answer

November 12, 2009

The good news is that millions have brought their addiction to drugs and alcohol into a state of remission; the bad news is that a far larger number have been unable to do so.
Why is that? What do the abstinent people do? Well I promised you a simple answer here we go:
1. They stopped [...]

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How To Change Negative Thinking In Addiction Recovery

November 4, 2009

What we think about a situation or event will determine feeling and emotions and later, behaviors and actions. In early addiction recovery, our thoughts are often not in line with what 98% of the world would think about the same event that we are thinking about.
Someone is looking at me, I think they are [...]

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