Category: Articles>Early Recovery

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Category: Articles>Early Recovery

Why Opioid Prescriptions Should Include Risk Assessment for Drug Abuse and Addiction

Articles>Drug Addiction

Over half of the 41,502 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2012 were due to prescription drugs, and 72 percent of these were related to opioid painkillers like OxyContin…

Triggers: A Fact of Recovery

Articles>Early Recovery

One of the most challenging aspects of recovery is how to handle triggers. No matter what the source addiction is—whether it’s alcohol and substance addictions, sexual addictions, addictive co-dependencies or…

Six Essential Rules of Addiction Recovery

Articles>Early Recovery

What does it really take to get sober and stay sober? If you talk to several people in recovery, you may get several opinions. Some will emphasize the importance of…

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Trusting Your Gut: Developing Intuition in Recovery

Articles>Early Recovery

One of the trickier skills to develop in early recovery is that of decision-making. While you were using, making decisions may have been a relatively simple affair—more often than not,…

My Holistic Approach to Sex and Relationship Addiction Recovery

Articles>Early Recovery

When I sit in the rooms, I’m sometimes struck by how different we addicts are on the surface. In one of my meetings, there’s a surgeon, a homeless artist, and…

‘One Day at a Time’: What Does That Mean, Anyway?

Articles>Early Recovery

Clichés are badly overused. This does not make them invalid, however; in fact it is the indisputable truth behind clichés that leads people to overuse them in the first place.

Do Prevention Programs Affect Prescription Drug Abuse?

Articles>Early Recovery

Prescription drug abuse is a common phenomenon throughout much of the U.S. However, the specific rates of abuse can vary considerably between individual states. In a report published in July…

Care for Yourself as You Support a Loved One in Recovery

Articles>Early Recovery

When you have a loved one battling addiction, especially if it is someone close to you, it is all too easy to get wrapped up in his problems and his…

Is Dependence on Prescription Opioids Linked to Sleeping Problems?

Articles>Early Recovery

Relatively large numbers of people in the U.S. abuse an opioid medication normally prescribed to treat pain or certain other medical issues. In turn, a substantial number of prescription opioid…

When Are Recovering Sex Addicts Ready for Relationships?

Articles>Early Recovery

Sex addiction, at base, is an intimacy disorder. And “intimacy,” according to Linda Hatch, Ph.D., sex addiction expert and therapist, “is the ability to be real with another person.” This…

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Category: Articles>Early Recovery

Category: Articles>Early Recovery

Why Opioid Prescriptions Should Include Risk Assessment for Drug Abuse and Addiction

Triggers: A Fact of Recovery

Six Essential Rules of Addiction Recovery

Trusting Your Gut: Developing Intuition in Recovery

My Holistic Approach to Sex and Relationship Addiction Recovery

‘One Day at a Time’: What Does That Mean, Anyway?

Do Prevention Programs Affect Prescription Drug Abuse?

Care for Yourself as You Support a Loved One in Recovery

Is Dependence on Prescription Opioids Linked to Sleeping Problems?

When Are Recovering Sex Addicts Ready for Relationships?

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