Recovery class expands to include kids
An addiction recovery program at Covenant Christian Community Church is offering a second program aimed at children of those battling or in recovery from addictions. Celebrate Recovery started almost five years ago at Covenant Christian, and it …
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UNL's Academic Recovery Program helps students get back on track
Ockenfels came to UNL last fall from the University of Iowa, where she helped to build a successful Academic Recovery Program. She and Watts work together on the program, which is set up to work with students to get them out of academic probation.
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Bay Area Recovery Announce New Houston Detox Programs
HOUSTON, Feb. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Bay Area Recovery has announced new detox programs intended to help people recover from chemical dependency and addiction with a multifaceted approach. The center aims to help patients detox–one of …
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What Philip Seymour Hoffman's Sponsor Could Have Done for Him
As a former heroin and cocaine addict who has covered addiction and recovery for over a quarter century, I'd like to stress that I am writing here as someone with knowledge of the field and not as a member of any program. There are many routes to …
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More than 500 drug addicts recover from Dubai rehabilitation programme
Lt Col Dr Jumaa Sultan Al Shamsi, director of the Department of Drug Awareness and Prevention of the General Anti-Narcotics Department at Dubai Police, said that the reintegration into society of recovering addicts is an ambitious, long-term project …
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Teenage Addicts in Harlingen Finally Have Access to Addiction Recovery Help
By calling the Harlingen Drug Rehab and Detox Helpline, young people interested in getting help for their addictions can learn more about how a rehab and recovery center can help. Harlingen, TX (PRWEB) January 30, 2014. Admitting to a drug or alcohol …
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Darryl Strawberry opening rehab center for drug-addicted athletes
Baseball great and recovering drug addict Darryl Strawberry is opening a center to help others get sober. On Friday, Strawberry shook hands and signed autographs at a ceremonial grand opening for members of community. While most admire Strawberry for …
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Drug recovery a 'sink or swim' struggle for South Jersey addicts, families …
John Thompson runs Living Proof Recovery Center in Voorhees, a state- and grant-funded resource for individuals struggling with addictions. He realizes what he's up against — a severe lack of local, clinical services to address addictions. Detox …
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New Adolescent Helpline Provides Teens with Reliable Addiction Recovery …
The Ashtabula Drug Rehab and Detox Helpline acts as a great resource for teens who want to overcome drug and alcohol addiction. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on LinkedIn Email a friend. Teenagers in Ashtabula, OH are …
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Melinda Lynn Muniz Faked Rape To Cover Up Murder Of Fiance's 2-Year-Old …
The investigation also recovered surveillance video from a Dollar Tree store where Muniz had gone to purchase zip ties, kitchen shears and cotton swabs about 40 minutes before she called her fiance, claiming she'd been attacked. … Carnes reportedly …
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Zakieya Avery, Mom Charged In Kids' Stabbing Deaths, Feared Devil: Police
Officers recovered two knives from the home. The children died from multiple stab … Carnes reportedly left her 1-year-old son standing next to a mailbox outside the home where she though the boy's father lived in Palmetto, Fla. Police say Carnes not …
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Addiction comes in many shapes. Drug addiction and alcoholism are probably the first ones that pop into our mind when thinking about addictions but it also seems like any word in the dictionary can receive the ‘aholic’ termination in order to describe a person’s dependence on getting anything in between chocolate, shopping, and computer games.

For alcohol, AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) has become like an international trademark for addiction treatment. However, science and practice tend to have different views on the effectiveness of AA treatment and other 12-step approaches for addiction recovery. In the same time, a set of alternative treatment options – also referred to as non 12-step addiction treatment options – also become more and more popular these days and most of them tend to employ a more holistic approach. For instance, some of the alternative holistic treatments employ yoga or mediation. Another popular recent approach concentrates on the effects of diet and nutrition and the success rates of using those as part of an alcoholism treatment. Some addictions use an indirect approach of providing a well-balanced nutrition and increasing the strength of the patient with vitamins and minerals.

Addiction rehab centers know that AA might be effective in practice but they also know that there are other methods that might be more effective – ranging from medications, to motivation based approaches such as rewarding non-drinking or non-consumption behaviors or even using aversive conditioning in order to instill repugnance to one’s object of an addiction. An increased importance is given today to treating addictions in rehab centers with a patient centered approach, having the person first convinced of the benefits of being treated and then identifying together with the specialized personnel what are the approaches that best suit patient’s needs. These centers offer an entire list of 12-step addiction recovery approaches and non 12-step addictions recovery approaches in the same time.

Another important factor to consider is that employing a non 12-step approach not only opens the door to treatment opportunities one might fail to consider when looking only at AA and similar 12-step approaches; it also gives people more choices in terms of selecting the method that best fits their beliefs and values system, even in the case in which they don’t believe in a higher power force, which is generally part of the 12-step approach. Other benefits of considering non 12-step addiction recovery solutions come from the fact that these other options can ensure more privacy for patients, allow them to get treated on a one-on-one basis rather than by attending group meetings. One might not want or like to attend those AA-type meetings or one might simply not have a flexible schedule to dedicate specific meeting times to that. In any of these cases, there are plenty of non 12-step solutions that address such specific needs.

Moreover, the level of specialization of these alternative methods has reached a stage at which some of them are designed particularly for certain social groups such a women oriented programs or programs designed for people with type of sexual orientation.

No matter how small or large is the population targeted by a treatment, the bottom line is that one should be aware of all the treatment options and actively involved in deciding which one could bring the best results.

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