Addiction Recovery and the Power of Service
Whether it is making coffee, greeting someone at the door with a smile, or setting up chairs, we are encouraged to get involved at the start of our gatherings; the exercise helps us to get out of our own way and to pitch in and help out. Recovery is …
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5 Tips for Managing Triggers during Addiction Recovery
5 Tips for Managing Triggers during Addiction Recovery Completing treatment for substance abuse or alcohol addiction is a major accomplishment. But the real work starts when you walk out the door. You are now making a commitment to abstinence from …
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Leading Expert on Addiction, Eating Disorders, Trauma and Recovery Launches …
CHICAGO, Sept. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ As a leading expert in the areas of addiction, eating disorders, trauma and recovery, board-certified psychiatrist and addictions specialist, Kim Dennis MD, has launched her own blog titled, Abundant Living. Dr …
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Steps Toward Recovery from Alcohol Addiction
Studies show that people become alcohol dependent due to a number of reasons, including personal issues, stress and peer pressure. Alcohol addiction will disrupt your life and destroy personal relationships. But the problem for most alcoholics is that …
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Drug Addiction Amongst Healthcare Professionals
I learned those lessons long before I started working with recovering addicts. As a young man I worked in the restaurant business (consistently ranked at the top of drug abusing professions). I worked with guys who functioned brilliantly under the …
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Measuring the Real-World Impact of Drug Rehab
An outcome monitoring system developed at Narconon may help rehab facilities around the country better monitor their results and improve their services, according to a paper just published in the peer-reviewed journal Substance Abuse: Research and …
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Drug Rehab Center Brooklyn Advances Addiction Treatment into the 21st Century
New addiction treatment methods at Drug Rehab Center Brooklyn are helping more people get clean than ever before. Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) September 28, 2013. When it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, recovery isn't easy. Thousands of people …
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If you or someone you know has a problem with alcohol then you should look into the possibility of getting into recovery. Alcohol addiction has a lot of negatives associated with it, not the least of which is a lifespan that is generally reduced by about 20 percent on average, so anyone who is hooked on drinking should look into quitting just for this simple fact alone. The quality of your life stands to improve by leaps and bounds if you can find a way to sober up.

If you want to quit drinking then you have to change your entire life from the inside out. For most people, success in sobriety comes as a direct result of their actions in trying to actively create a new life for themselves. This means that if you want to stay sober then you have to do a lot more than just not drink. You have to get active in recovery and reach out and help other people and set some goals in your life and find some real purpose. If you do these things then it will give you the drive and the motivation to remain sober even when times get tough.

We all have our personal challenges and we will all have our ups and downs so you need to find coping mechanisms and healthy outlets so that you can avoid relapse over the long term. Alcoholism is a very patient disease and so you need an entire life strategy that can carry you through your entire life experience if you want to stay sober in the long run.

Drug Rehab Center Piscataway Develops New Treatment Programs for the Elderly
Drug Rehab Center Piscataway counselor George S. says the program was originally implemented to treat addicts of all ages. But the mental issues of senior are extremely influential on their substance abuse. “Many older people suffer from mental …
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Drug Rehab Center Brooklyn Advances Addiction Treatment into the 21st Century
When it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, recovery isn't easy. Thousands of people struggle with addiction in Brooklyn on a daily basis and as a result, the treatment specialists at Drug Rehab Center Brooklyn have revamped their strategy when it …
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Rehab centers struggle to keep drugs out
When Bethany Ehrhart, 23, wanted to kick her addiction to painkillers, her mother, Darlene, found the money for top-of-the-line treatment at the world-renowned Betty Ford Center. A week after her arrival at the celebrity rehab in Rancho Mirage, Calif …
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7th Annual Run for Your Life 5K Run & Recovery Walk – 9/29/2012

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On September 29, more than 1,000 recovery supporters and treatment programs from across the state joined Odyssey House to celebrate recovery at the 7th Annual Run for Your Life 5K Run & Recovery Walk. For more photos: www.flickr.com/photos/odysseyhouse/sets/72157631753539385…

5 Tips for Managing Triggers during Addiction Recovery
5 Tips for Managing Triggers during Addiction Recovery Completing treatment for substance abuse or alcohol addiction is a major accomplishment. But the real work starts when you walk out the door. You are now making a commitment to abstinence from …
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Addiction recovery programs heal through love
OGDEN — There isn't a person alive who can't identify with experiencing pain in their life. But some former addicts say the means they chose to dull that pain caused them and their families untold grief. And they want to help others find their way out …
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Ex-NBA star shares tale of addiction, recovery with St. Stephen's
Five years after a drug rehab counselor told Chris Herren to call his wife and tell her to consider him dead, he stood before the Saint Stephen's Upper School, very much alive, and shared his story of basketball, addiction and recovery in a special …
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