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Don’t Gamble with Your Sobriety on Super Bowl Sunday

Super Bowl Sunday brings the opportunity to combine two favorite pastimes: football and excessive drinking.The big game is rapidly approaching and plans are being made for which drinking game will be used. Will this be the year of, "Every time Peyton Manning says Omaha, take a shot?" Or, will it be "Take a swig every time Cam Newton poses for the camera?" No matter whether the Denver Broncos or the Carolina Panthers are running a play, many Super Bowl parties...

January 8, 2016Read more...
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Let’s Stop Overselling 12-Step Recovery

A person recently asked me what I attribute long term recovery to. I immediately said. "Alcoholics Anonymous." We, as professionals, or those of us who have earned admission to 12-step recovery, tend to spread the message that Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is wonderful. We love it. You need to love it too. Are we setting people up by overselling 12-step recovery? I've heard patients say that we push it down people's throats. Do we? Maybe we do. Is it really that...

October 29, 2015Read more...
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Eliminating “Shame” From Addiction Treatment and Recovery

Introspection can lead a person to look at the pluses and minuses of life. It will cause a person to look at things that have been done well and things that could have been done better. It can bring about growth through change. That is the spirit with which this is being written. As addiction professionals, we have helped many people. Estimates are that we have helped up to 23.5 million people achieve long-term recovery. It's hard to say exactly how...

February 20, 2015Read more...