- Notes from The A-Team: You Need an A-Plus Plan
Way back in the 1980s, an action-adventure series called The A-Team was wildly popular. Each episode started with a quick review of the team’s origin story: In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped… Read more: Notes from The A-Team: You Need an A-Plus Plan - Revisiting Some Busted Myths About Substance Use Disorders
Some time ago, we wrote a series of blogs focused on various myths about substance use disorders. We used the popular science show MythBusters as our model, and over the course of three blog entries, we considered some of the things you might hear people say—they might even say these… Read more: Revisiting Some Busted Myths About Substance Use Disorders - Help for the Helpers – Advice for Getting a Loved One Into Treatment
Discovering that someone you love is struggling with a substance use disorder can be a very emotional experience. You might feel angry with your loved one or with the person who introduced them to drugs. You might feel a sense of panic because you are worried that your loved one… Read more: Help for the Helpers – Advice for Getting a Loved One Into Treatment - Cravings Can Be Persistent Like a Barking Dog
In a recent blog post, we wrote about our new doggy co-workers, Moose and Bear. We explored the various ways in which animals can be helpful to a person in recovery from a substance use disorder. As we noted in that post, animals can provide a useful reflection of a… Read more: Cravings Can Be Persistent Like a Barking Dog - Anticipation and Impatience are Both Part of Recovery
Sometimes, your recovery journey might inspire the same sorts of feelings you experience when you have to wait in a long line. In 2015, Bloomberg reported that Americans 37 billion hours waiting in line each year. That, of course, is a cumulative number, but when you are the person doing… Read more: Anticipation and Impatience are Both Part of Recovery