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Urschel III, Dr. Harold C., “Revolutionary Recovery: Healing the Addicted Brain, Approaching Addiction as a Chronic Brain Disease.” PsychologyToday.com, 3 August 2009. McLellan, A. Thomas, “Have We Evaluated Addiction Treatment Correctly? Implications From a Chronic Care Perspective.”
“The brain changes, and it doesn’t recover when you just stop the drug because the brain has been actually changed,” Kreek explained. “The brain may get OK with time in some persons. But it’s hard to find a person who has completely normal brain function after a long cycle of opiate addiction, not without specific medication treatment.”
Whether it's overcoming addiction, healing from a physical injury or finding strength after heartbreak, recovery is a path that requires resilience and self-compassion. ... 30 Prayers for the Sick ...
An influential cognitive-behavioral approach to addiction recovery and therapy has been Alan Marlatt's (1985) Relapse Prevention approach. [62] Marlatt describes four psycho-social processes relevant to the addiction and relapse processes: self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, attributions of causality, and decision-making processes. Self-efficacy ...
In a bright, white auditorium on the rolling campus of a rehab center on the East Coast, I learned that addiction is a disease. The giant room was filled with addicts and alcoholics, including my ...
In general medicine and psychiatry, recovery has long been used to refer to the end of a particular experience or episode of illness.The broader concept of "recovery" as a general philosophy and model was first popularized in regard to recovery from substance abuse/drug addiction, for example within twelve-step programs or the California Sober method.
Other communities have used similar amounts of settlement funding to train community health workers to help people with addiction, and to buy a car to drive people in recovery to job interviews ...
Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions.Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, aided its membership to overcome alcoholism. [1]