12-step recovery plans and medications are standards for alcoholism treatment, but several alternative options exist. Many of these include one or more features of traditional treatment plans, but add other components. Still other alternative treatments bypass the standard plans and set off on their own path.One alternative that these programs can offer is a spiritual [...]
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 [...]
Almost everyone knows about the twelve steps to recovery from alcoholism. But what are the stages someone goes through on the way to alcoholism?Alcohol addiction stages are generally defined as early, middle, and late. These three stages, however, are very broadly defined and are going to look a little different in each alcoholic. One person [...]
