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Alcoholism

The Recovery Support that is Available Following Overdose

What subsequently happens to people who experience a drug overdose and are successfully rescued through emergency medical intervention? What is their fate after they leave the hospital or other emergency care setting? Missing in the media coverage of the unrelenting … Continue reading

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Recovery Rising – A memoir of William L White

Recovery Rising is the memoir of foremost recovery researcher and advocate, William L White. It has just been released on Amazon. White, for over five decades has had different roles in the addiction treatment field, beginning in Chicago’s inner city … Continue reading

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What is a recovery coach?

In 2013, I published Recovery Coaching – A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions, since then the duties and responsibilities of recovery coaches, peer recovery support specialists and professional recovery coaches have expanded significantly. In this article, I … Continue reading

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Lions, Tigers, Bears and the Yellow Brick Road to Recovery

This is a guest post by Steve Devlin, a recovery coach from Philadelphia PA, and a long time friend. I chose to post this over the Holiday weekend, because it brings me such joy, and brings back wonderful memories of watching … Continue reading

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What is a recovery coach?

What is a recovery coach, a peer recovery support specialist or a professional recovery coach? In 2013, I published Recovery Coaching – A Guide to Coaching People in Recovery from Addictions, since then the duties and responsibilities of recovery coaches, … Continue reading

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Getting through the tough times

As a recovery coach, I often see my clients need help getting through the tough times, without using, picking up or acting out. Recently, I personally encountered some rough patches in my life, so, I went to my library of … Continue reading

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A new ER resource – recovery coaches

In Rhode Island, more than 1,000 addicts have been brought from the edge of death due to an opioid overdose, thanks to first-responders and emergency room workers using the new lifesaving drugs Narcan and Naloxone. When patients are overdosing, first-responders or ER … Continue reading

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Is Recovery Coaching Effective?

Treatment professionals and researchers are calling for a change in the treatment model for substance use disorders (SUD). This change calls for shedding the acute care model (28 days of SUD treatment will fix you) to a continuum of care … Continue reading

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A Call for Clinical Humility in Addiction Treatment

by William White and video featuring Chris Budnick The history of addiction treatment includes a pervasive and cautionary thread: the potential to do great harm in the name of help.  The technical term for such injury, iatrogenesis (physician-caused or treatment-caused … Continue reading

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How Adverse Childhood Experiences affects long term health – a TED MED Talk by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, during her TED-Med talk presents the benefits of the Adverse Childhood Experience study and the substantiated affects the study has brought forth on how childhood trauma can impact the quality of one’s health and length of a … Continue reading

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Recovery Coaching Texas Prison Style

Kyle Gage lives in Longview, Texas, and he is a recovery coach. Longview is a little oil and manufacturing town a couple of hours east of Dallas-Ft Worth and about an hour west of Shreveport, Louisiana. The small town has … Continue reading

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The Sobering Center’s Recovery Coach- George Shea

The Houston Recovery Center The Houston Recovery Center and the Sobering Center, is located at 150 N Chenevert St, in Houston, Texas. The Sobering Center employs recovery coaches, case managers and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). At first I thought a Sobering … Continue reading

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Ten ways of Improving Your Chances of Keeping that New Year’s Resolution

Make a list and think it through It’s that time and everyone is thinking of New Year’s Resolutions. You’re itching to get rid of that bad habit right now, but consider this: think it through. I know you have heard … Continue reading

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Believe Change is Possible

As a recovery coach, I work with people trying to change a habit. We work on finding different ways of responding to a trigger. For some seeking recovery, they want to find an easier, softer way. Others think willpower is all they need … Continue reading

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Changing a Habit

Quitting drinking or drugging is the same as developing an exercise program or winning a football game. Simply by changing a habit, you can succeed in staying sober. Charles Duhigg investigates this theory in his 2012 book, The Power of Habit. Duhigg … Continue reading

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Stop calling it behavioral health!

Stop calling it behavioral health! Does the term cause stigma and discrimination? By Robert Kent JD and Charles Morgan MD Reprinted from thefix.com, originally published on 11/12/15 When somebody is treated for smoking cessation, the care will probably be provided … Continue reading

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Service keeps you sober — Research is proving this age-old slogan

Ever since I walked into the rooms, I heard the phrase “Service keeps you sober.” I already knew I was a helping type of person, in fact in my addiction it was called being a rescuer. So I stayed away … Continue reading

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On the Nature of Addiction and the Loss of Hope

Guest post by David Chapman The normal state of a productive and happy human existence includes a sense of hope. The  nature of addiction exhausts all sense of hope. The sense of hope is based on the understanding that the process of productive … Continue reading

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How can you heal the trauma within?

Trauma changes you. You might not necessarily like that change. How can you heal the trauma within? You have the ability to transform yourself into a healthier person. You have enormous healing potential; the goal is learning to access it—and … Continue reading

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Is there a trauma-addiction connection?

Is there a trauma-addiction connection? Adverse childhood experiences (trauma) are well known to significantly increase the risk of psychiatric disorders in adulthood. Ample evidence has shown that childhood trauma endangers the brain’s development, structure and function. Several traumatic experiences could make a person susceptible, … Continue reading

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