Is AA Effective?
An exhaustive meta-study proves the effectiveness of AA. Did you hear about it?
Entries by Jeff Jay
Biggest Intervention Mistake
Almost every week, I get a call from a family who is about to make a terrible intervention mistake. They will almost guarantee failure in their attempt to get their loved one into treatment. I can only imagine how many families don’t call, and fall into this critical error.
Interventionist Certification and Training
Training and certification in the Love First method of intervention. Five days with Jeff and Debra Jay, in person, June 19-24, 2022.
Free Webinars
Hazelden will be hosting 4 free webinars featuring Debra and Jeff Jay, every Friday in March 2022. Participants can view the webinars anytime, as long as they register. Registration should be completed in advance.
Al-Anon Resources
Al-Anon info, videos and PDF
Twelve Step Discernment
Discernment begins with a dilemma. What should I do? Discernment is also the way out of the dilemma, a method for discovering the way forward.
The Abyss
What remains when we find ourselves in the well of despair—when all is lost? We see no way out of the darkness, no glimmer of light to guide us.
A Quintessentially American Solution
Dr. Dupont said he had been working in the drug treatment field for twenty years before he really understood recovery. –This from Harvard-trained psychiatrist who did part of his residency at the National Institutes of Health. What could he possibly have meant by this statement?
Gratitude
Every fall I feel a renewed sense of gratitude for the people who helped me get sober. I wasn’t looking for help, so their job wasn’t easy. Fortunately, my resistance didn’t stop them from taking action—repeatedly. And for that, I am deeply grateful.
Recovery Wisdom for the Pandemic
Spiritual unmanageability grows out of physical and emotional unmanageability, and it is the most pernicious. Where is mercy? Where is love?
The Other Opioid Crisis
Dr. Michael Parr, M.D., a clinical interventionist with Love First, recently had major back surgery. Again. While healing, he found that no one would prescribe the needed pain medication. Dr. Parr is a chronic pain specialist and he is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Here is the story of his ordeal in late 2018.
Conversion, Recovery and Relapse Prevention
What do addiction recovery and religious conversion have in common? Why are the Twelve Steps so powerful?
Clearing the Channel
“Make me a channel of your peace….” —Prayer of St. Francis We can all admire the prayer attributed to St. Francis, no matter what our pastoral, teaching, or care-giving role. But what can I do to keep my own channel clear? Having worked as an addiction counselor for decades, I know something about crisis management […]
The Hero’s Journey
Joseph Campbell was an influential thinker, weaving together the stories of many cultures into a seamless narrative. His most famous book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, demonstrated that the travails of our individual lives and the teachings of the world’s great religions have a lot in common—namely struggle, divine help (usually disguised), and deliverance.
