Talking To Your Sponsor
A sponsor is used in AA as a person to talk to about your progress in recovery. The sponsor is an alcoholic who is trying to maintain sobriety, agrees to listen to your experiences, and [...]
Your Length of Stay in Residential Treatment
Depending on your needs, options, and severity of drug and alcohol use, you can stay short-term or long-term in a residential treatment facility. Every treatment is unique to each person's situation. Addiction to drugs and [...]
Does a Treatment Center Make or Break Recovery?
The treatment center, also known as rehab, is a healthcare facility that helps people with drug or alcohol problems adjust to a healthy and sober lifestyle. It provides therapy for substance abuse and other behavioral [...]
Love and Tolerance, The Code of AA
A code of AA is 'love and tolerance' and it means to treat others, as you would want to be treated. Love and tolerance start with loving yourself, loving other people, and accepting a person [...]
How Will You be a Better Employee Sober?
There are nearly countless benefits to getting sober and clean. We always talk about the benefits to your health, your relationships and finances when you beat an addiction, but one aspect that’s often forgotten, though [...]
Changes You Will See in the First 60 Days of Being Sober
The first 60 days of sobriety will be very challenging. Drug and alcohol addiction leads to a path of destruction in a person's life. Drug and alcohol abuse turned into a habit and your brain [...]
Therapies that Can Change Your Life in Treatment
Treatment for drug and alcohol addiction is hard work and takes time, determination, and commitment to change patterns in behavior. The first process in treatment includes a medical evaluation. Psychological and mental health problems could [...]
Staying Happy and Healthy in Recovery
Recovery is a lifelong process that is not easy, but does not need to be miserable. In recovery, you replace the old habits of using drugs or alcohol with healthy new ones. Gradually, you will [...]
Signs You Need to Stop Using Drugs
Drug use affects your life in many ways. Using drugs causes problems with your personal relationships, job, financial stability, and health. Every person who uses drugs can experience different effects. How a person is affected [...]