Addiction Care Blog

The Addiction Care Blog is about the journey to recovery. It contains...

• information about the challenges we face and how to cope with our everyday problems
• keeps you up-to-date with other postings or news about drug addiction treatments
• lets you know whenever any new Web pages appear on Addiction Care Clinic

Stages of Recovery and Esteem

An unhealthy old instinct was to use or drink to cope with life. Now, your instincts are choose healthy choices to cope with life.

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Medications and Counselor Ground Rules

We believe in a multi-disciplinary approach to treatment. We offer medical intervention as well as counseling. We consider the combination to be good therapy. We also support and encourage clients to

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Causes and Drives of Addiction

Have you ever heard somebody say that the first time they used a particular drug was the first time they can remember feeling "normal"?

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Drug Related Issues

This usually means a person believes that arresting the addiction to either alcohol or other drugs will solve all the other problems or short-comings they may be experiencing. Or, they really don't ca

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Prescription Abuse and Forgiveness

While these deaths are accidental, the behavior that caused them is not. Many people who are addicted to painkillers engage in ";doctor shopping".

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Drug Recovery Timeline

The first part of recovery is sometimes called the "pink cloud" or the "honeymoon" period. Everything feels great! The temptation is to almost glamorize what's going well.

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Path to Solving Problems

Which of the attitudes below best fits how you generally address the problems or difficulties in your life?

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Ways to Defeat Recovery

While it is probably true that there are some bad recovery programs out there, it is not true that the fault always lies with the program.

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Recovery Support Groups and Nurturing Families

A recent survey of recovering individuals asked what aspects of recovery did they believe had the most positive effect on their recovery.

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Addiction and Costly Behaviors

What have our behaviors cost us? Think about it, not too long. You'll get depressed. How many areas of our lives are negatively impacted by how we behave when influenced by the drugs?

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Excuses and Accountability

It is easy to free ourselves from blame when it comes to being responsible for our actions.

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Stinkin' Thinkin'

The truth is that most of the time it is our thoughts that initiate both actions and emotions or feelings.

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Relapsing from the Road to Recovery

There are serveral attitudes that hinder drug addiction recovery.

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Self Defeating Rules and Drug Addiction Recovery

Ten Self Defeating Rules that Hinder the Path to Drug Addiction Recovery

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Denial and Drug Addiction Coping Methods in Dallas Texas

There are several definitions of denial. The one I hear the most goes like this: Denial is the subconscious defense mechanism that prevents the user from seeing the reality of what drug use is doing.

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