One of the most needed skills for recovery from alcoholism and other drug (AOD) addiction is the ability to appropriately process and manage emotions. The very absence of this skill is a common characteristic of addiction.Alcoholics/addicts in active addiction, use the chemical as an affect regulation tool, sometimes almost exclusively. So, one of the first [...]
How can we help alcoholics recover? Traditional recovery programs have tried to answer this question for decades now, and typically without much success.Part of the problem is that existing recovery programs lack customization. They are a one-size-fits-all affair that end up not really helping anyone as much as they could if they were tailored to [...]
Alcohol detox at home can be done, but never by yourself. There must be medical oversight because everyone’s withdrawal symptoms are different and unknown until they are into the process itself. In-home detox is not set up to handle patients who are at risk for seizures or strokes. Most programs will only allow low-risk, relatively [...]
