NEWSLETTER

August 23, 2006 Some Reminders Some Helpful Numbers
Road to Recovery
Dosing hours Monday through AA - Alcoholics Anonymous
Friday are 5:30 am to 11:30 am 214-887-6699
Counseling is available NA - Narcotics Anonymous
5:30 am to 12:30 pm 972-699-9306

www.dallasareana.org

Recovery is a Journey

Clinic hours on Saturday are OA - Overeaters Anonymous

Craving

Craving has been defined as an intense desire for some particular thing or, an urgent or abnormal desire. It may be that a more useable definition is a combination of the two. Craving for an addiction is not just a thought of the behavior. It is a mixture of thoughts, feelings, behaviors, visualizations, and perceptions that combine to make the want to use, drink, etc. even more intense. You can crave anything! Some things we crave, we taste, we smell, are not considered to be very harmful. We can crave pizza, cool weather, or attention. We can also crave alcohol, cocaine, heroin, pain pills, gambling, sex, or marijuana. The process and the mechanism is the same. The consequences vary. Common triggers for craving are:
  1. Being around it and around those who are doing it.
  2. Being in situations that remind us of using, drinking, smoking, etc.
  3. Certain smells or tastes. Really anything having to do with our five senses.
  4. All kinds of things associated with the past addictive behavior. Stuff like pay days, bars, sex, movies, and music.
  5. Physical illness.
  6. Unwanted or uncomfortable feelings or emotions.
  7. Stressful relationships or situations.
6:00 am to 9:00 am 512-327-2802
Closed on Sunday Problem Gamblers Help-Line
  800-742-0443
Please remember to bring your SA - Sex/Love Addicts Annon.
lock boxes. 800-477-8191
COME TO GROUP DA - Debtors Anonymous
WE ARE MEETING EVERY 713-797-8441
SATURDAY FROM Shoplifters Anonymous
8:30 AM TO 9:15 AM 713-840-1833

Recovery Related Stuff
ACUPUNCTURE
www.hazelden.org
Hepatitis Information
hepatitisneighborhood.com
HERE NOW APAA
The procedure is called The Association of Persons
auricular acupuncture. Affected by Addiction
It is helpful for a variety of issues www.apaarecovery.org
that affect those with The Twelfth Step Ministry
addictions. 214-706-9526
Please see your counselor. Lots of support groups of
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various interests.
Visit their web site.
www.llumc.org
The Network of Community
Reading glasses are now Ministries
available at the front desk for Assistance with food, clothing
those who may have trouble 972-234-8880
reading forms, treatment plans,  
and other educational  
materials in the clinic.  
  Texas Workforce Commission
972-288-2703
Baylor College of Dentistry
214-828-8440
 
 
   
   



Dr. Candace McDaniel
8021 East R.L. Thornton Fwy, Suite A
Dallas, Texas 75228

Call (214) 328-4848 or   for more information