Addiction Recovery

Confidentiality is a pillar of addiction counseling. It’s practiced at all levels, and it follows a tradition deeply rooted in the Alcoholics Anonymous fellowship. When

In the late 2000s, the American cable television network A&E presented two perspectives of recovery coaches, one realistic and the other fictional. The success of

The 2025 Oscar for Best Animated Feature was awarded to Flow, a silent movie about a black cat surviving in an apocalyptic world, but many

Many alcoholics and drug addicts treat themselves and recover on their own. Studies conducted by Yale University and McLean Hospital, home of the largest neuroscience

One of the most compelling addiction memoirs published in recent times is Quitter, by Erica C. Barnett, a Seattle-based journalist whose recovery from severe alcoholism

In Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs, meetings are often adjourned with motivational sayings or chants encouraging members to return. One of the most popular

Sobriety is a multidimensional approach to life. There are self-help and spiritual dimensions, and then there’s the highly practical concept of avoiding falling into relapse.

Those pleasant moments you experience when seeing a loved one or coming home to an affectionate pet are pure neurochemistry at work. Dopamine levels surge

The loss of a loved one is always difficult, but imagine having to deal with it at the same time you’re trying to recover from