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Is a 12-Step Group in Residential Treatment the Same as AA?
Often, patients are introduced to the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous during residential inpatient treatment. As a part of the overall program designed to jump start recovery, patients are required to attend meetings. Research shows that alcoholics or addicts who attend meetings experience recovery rates approximately two times as effective as those who do not ….
Read more ›Live One Day At A Time
There’s an interesting and deadly psychological trick alcoholism plays on us. It has to do with time and the horizon problem. You are already familiar with how urges work. We are surprised at the checkout counter when a sudden impulse strikes. We find ourselves buying some candy or other item we hadn’t intended simply because ….
Read more ›What Good Does It Do to Dredge Up the Past With a 4th Step Inventory?
Step 4 – “We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” The 12 Step recovery path unfolds in a gradual progression, from one state of awareness to the next. With Step 1, a person acknowledges drug addiction as the destructive force that it is. Step 2 begins the acknowledgment of a Higher Power; ….
Read more ›Is All the Spiritual Stuff in Narcotics Anonymous 12 Steps Really Necessary?
Over time, the effects of drug addiction can turn a normal functioning individual into a shell of a person. Both the body and the mind undergo profound changes as a growing dependency on the drug takes over. While addressing the physical effects of addiction is essential to overcoming this condition, the effects had on the ….
Read more ›Recovery Meetings: What You Must Know Before You Go to a 12 Step Meeting
The choice to overcome addiction comes with major changes that touch most every area of your life. Likewise, entering into a 12 Step recovery meeting environment will be unlike the experiences that led you to this point in your life. While detox and drug treatment are no doubt essential steps in the recovery process, ensuring ….
Read more ›The History of Alcoholics Anonymous
Most everyone knows that an A.A. meeting is due to the mention in movies, TV shows, books, and more. According to the NCBI, Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 and has grown to become the most popular self-help organization in the world. But where did it start and how did it become what it is today? ….
Read more ›Questions and Answers about 12 Step Addiction Treatment
When you are considering a 12 step addiction treatment program, you might find that you have questions that are not answered in the typical 12 step literature. Fortunately, there are many people who have the very same questions that you do. These are some of the questions frequently asked by those who are thinking about ….
Read more ›12 Step Recovery Jokes
We all need a little break from the seriousness of recovery. Humor can be good medicine. Watch out though, some of these border on racy – adults only please. Q: Why did the accountant do so well in AA? A: He was already a friend of bills. Q: Why aren’t people in recovery good dancers? ….
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