Addiction Recovery

Effective help with alcohol abuse and dependence is hard to come by, despite large numbers of treatment programs. The problem is that a majority of these programs have grown from a single - and ineffective - male model whose business success has long overridden client needs despite dismal outcomes. The result, for women, is that most options omit a number of the research based components that include:

1. Early detection, including screening and brief interventions;

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Eliminating bad habits, such as smoking, drinking, even gambling, or worse, illegal drugs, is a very difficult thing to do, since the users are already tuned to these disgruntled ways. It took just minutes for them to develop these habits, but it will no doubt take years for them to eliminate them out of their system completely.

That is why a number of national government organizations are finding ways to help them get rid of these bad habits through various comprehensive Read the rest of this entry »

I think it is especially difficult around the Holidays not to jump in and say but it is Thanksgiving or Christmas or their Birthday. I do not want my child to think I do not love them. It is hard to let go they may die. They are better now. My child did not have the same problems as yours. I abused alcohol when I was young it is my fault. If only I would have been a better parent, if only I could have seen their pain more clearly. They do not mean to hurt me they have a sicknes Read the rest of this entry »