Recovery isn’t just about detoxing and trying to ignore your cravings. While it might seem like all you need to do to sustain sobriety is stop using, recovery is much more complicated than that. You have to treat more than the symptoms and causes of...
If you struggle with alcohol addiction, you probably recognize that one of the first steps toward recovery involves quitting drinking. But recovery isn’t always a linear process. Eliminating alcohol from your system and your life can bring you some relief. However, you’ll need to examine...
Learn new ways to cope with internal and external addiction relapse triggers so that you can overcome them and avoid relapse....
Origin of the Disease Model of Addiction The term “Disease Model of Addiction” was coined more than 50 years after the American Medical Association (AMA) first deemed alcoholism as an illness in 1956. No longer considered as just a behavioral problem, addiction is now defined as...
