Articles and podcasts on addiction, recovery, twelve steps, spirituality and more.

Lawyers: recovery for licensed professionals

Licensed professionals like lawyers, pilots, doctors and other health professionals receive a very high level of treatment and support if they require addiction treatment. As a result, they achieve greater success. What makes the difference?

Elements of Effective Treatment

Deb Kuzmin is executive director at the Hanley Center, and John Dyben is the chief clinical officer at Origins Behavioral Healthcare. Their passion and commitment for helping families and patients is truly inspiring.

Gary Fisher has been a leader in the behavioral health field for the past twenty years. He shares lessons learned regarding opiate addiction.

Mike Schiks has more than 40 years experience in the addiction treatment field, and his special knowledge of problem gambling makes for an unforgettable podcast.

Many Baker has been a pioneer in the development and implementation of collegiate recovery programs and working with young adults.

What we mean by “family recovery” is that when you love someone struggling with addiction you cannot help but feel the impact of their pain.

Addiction-free pain management

Chronic pain can lead to addiction when opioid pain medications are used improperly. Too many families have a loved one struggling with opioid pain medication—or worse. Dr. Mel Pohl is the author of “A Day Without Pain.”

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.

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.

Dr. Colin King is an expert in in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and the intersection of TBI and addiction. He is a fully-licensed clinical psychologist who has been helping patients and families for many years.

John Curtiss is CEO and co-founder of The Retreat, in Wayzata, MN. The Retreat is the most admired twelve step immersion program in the country.

Deborah Schiller takes us through the world of pornography and sex addiction, and offers a message of hope.

John Driscoll, senior VP of Recovery Services at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, began his career working with homeless addicted women and their children at St. Martin de Porres House of Hope, in Chicago. Listen to his fascinating story.

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?

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