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How Will the Narcotics Anonymous 12 Steps Help Me Stay Clean?
For many people, staying drug-free after months or years of chronic drug abuse becomes an ongoing challenge that eventually drains their willpower over time. In the absence of some form of treatment or guidance, addiction’s effects will hound a person until he or she can’t take it any longer. Narcotics Anonymous 12 Steps is designed ….
Read more ›AA: An In Depth Look at Step 4
Alcoholics Anonymous is a community support group that focuses on different aspects of recovery and helping others achieve them. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, one of the goals of any substance abuse program is to help a person who is suffering from addiction find normalcy in their life. Alcoholics Anonymous breaks this ….
Read more ›What Can I Expect at My First 12 Step Meeting?
Attending a 12 Step meeting for the first time can seem overwhelming, to say the least. Not knowing what to expect, feeling as if you have to participate and dealing with feelings of anxiety in general can make your first time at a meeting seem more difficult than it really is. The 12 Step support ….
Read more ›Benefits of an Online 12 Step Program
When it comes to addiction treatment, there is no denying the fact that 12 step programs have been useful for many years. There are many types of 12 step programs, with some of the most popular including: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), and Cocaine Anonymous (CA). Once your time in rehab comes to an ….
Read more ›What Does “First Things First” Mean?
Triage is the method used in emergency medicine to decide priorities. For individual patients, it comes down to a stepwise assessment and addressing the most important problems before the less important. The basics are: Start the breathing, then stop the bleeding, then protect the wound,then treat for shock. There’s an important sequence. It does little ….
Read more ›Understanding the 12 Step Program Philosophy
The 12-step program has been a popular treatment for alcohol addiction since the book Alcoholics Anonymous was released in 1939. Over time, it has also been used to treat other types of substance abuse and even behavioral addictions, but many individuals do not understand the basic philosophy of the program, which can be boiled down ….
Read more ›5 Top Lessons from The Big Book of AA
There are many resources that provide help to people who are addicted to alcohol. While some people are able to overcome an addiction on their own, others need as much help as they can get. Once a person makes his or her way through a treatment program, they may wish to continue with a similar ….
Read more ›90 Meetings in 90 Days- Advice for Newcomers into the 12 Step Program
No one can identify the roots of the Alcoholics Anonymous’ push for “90 meeting in 90 days” with any certainty. But, by the 1950s attending for 3 months, or 90 days, was being referred to as a milestone. And, current practice among all 12 step groups now asks that newcomers commit to a meeting for ….
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