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What is Recovery?

An essay on the subject of “What is Recovery” raises, for me, the question of what is Addiction. Since everyone of us has an idea, our own idea, of what Addiction is, we'll also have our own answer to “What is Recovery?”

Since we don’t have agreement in our field on what Addiction is, I doubt that we can come up with an easy agreement on what recovery is. I could just tell you my definition of both but my goal is not for us to have a debate over which we can come to a resolution. My goal is that we all look at ourselves and how we got to this question. It may be, that after examining ourselves, we may choose to change the question we ask.

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October 2007 Vol.8, No.5
Yoga: An Excellent Therapeutic Adjunct for Outpatient Recovery
For thousands of years, yoga has provided a means for establishing and building upon inner balance. Yoga is the unity of mind and body, of self with life. Thus, the practice of yoga seeks to purify both the physical body and the mental/emotional f...
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A Model for Successful Medical Methadone Maintenance Programs
Methadone maintenance is the most widely accepted and best studied treatment for opioid dependence (National Consensus Development Panel 1998; Joseph et al. 2000; Ball & Ross 1991). Long-term methadone treatment has been shown to be more effec...
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A Recovery Revolution in Philadelphia
The City of Philadelphia has a long and distinguished role in the history of addiction treatment and recovery in America. One of the city’s most famous and beloved sons, Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), was the first to articulate a disease co...
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Symptoms of Addiction: Incorporating the New Brain Science
Over the last two decades, addiction professionals have learned a great deal about the progressive symptoms of alcohol and drug addiction.

Up until this time, the Jellinek Chart, a useful graphic representation of the symptoms of Gamma Alcoholi...

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Firewall for Recovery
As addiction treatment professionals, we know the addict faces two challenges. The first is to stop using — to “put the plug in the jug.” The second is twofold: to make personal changes and to sustain a recovery program “on...
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The TurnAround Mom Tells How She Neutralizes Toxic Intensity- The Mother of All Addictions
Toxic intensity — self-induced anxiety — is addictive, and has tremendous relevance for today’s debt-laden, overweight, oversexed, overmedicated, jonesing for a drink society — and that includes me.
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Columns
Letter from the Editor October 2007 Letter from the Editor October 2007
Dear Readers,

We are quickly approaching that time of year where things seem to go into overdrive – summer is over, the kids are back in school and the holiday season will be upon us before we know it.

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Bringing Our Lives Into Balance Bringing Our Lives Into Balance
This column expands on a theme I developed in a recent column titled, “From Doing to Being,” which addressed the importance of helping your clients free themselves from their obsessive-compulsive tendencies as part and parcel of a holi...
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Buzz Words in Practice (And those that should be) Buzz Words in Practice (And those that should be)
In today’s parlance, there are certain key buzzwords one must learn to practice, and to receive funding for one’s organization.

For example, if you asked the average counselor what is their model of therapy, almost everyone will say ...

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Get the Facts Straight Get the Facts Straight
There was big news on July 16. A news story circulated by the Associated Press (AP) was widely published. The story: one of every 12 full-time workers in the United States acknowledged using illegal drugs at least once in the previous month. A cli...
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Do Certain People Prefer Certain Drugs? Do Certain People Prefer Certain Drugs?
As long I as I have been in this field, I have heard claims that certain types of people seem to like certain types of drugs. You hear this in staff meetings, workshops, books, and even at coffee after 12-Step meetings. But, is any of it true? And...
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Coming to Terms and Accepting Who I Am Coming to Terms and Accepting Who I Am
“I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.” — Edgar Allan Poe

I always thought my bouts of depression were situational. Reflecting on those dark and emotionally painful periods, I realized my depression oftentimes...

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Sobriety and Maturity — Is There a Connection? Sobriety and Maturity — Is There a Connection?
You’re in a restaurant, and a child at the next table (they’re always at the next table) begins to act up. He wants what he wants — and he wants it now. He is the center of his universe. He is being a child. That’s his job.
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The Real Online World The Real Online World
In July, the popular social networking site, MySpace, deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders from its service. Just two months earlier, they deleted 7,000 offenders. The minimum age to register for a page on MySpace is 14. Why would sex offenders reg...
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WHY DO I KEEP DOING THAT? WHY DO I KEEP DOING THAT? WHY DO I KEEP DOING THAT? WHY DO I KEEP DOING THAT?
In his latest book, Why Do I Keep Doing That? Why Do I Keep Doing That?, New York Times best-selling author Dennis Wholey explores the psychodynamic principle of repetition compulsion and it’s often deleterious impact upon people’s lives....
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