Addiction is a chronic brain disease and relapsing into substance use is quite common. Often, such a relapse is seen by the patient as failing at recovery. Thomas Edison once said, “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close...
The recovery industry suffers high turnover rates for many positions, largely because of emotional stress leading to compassion fatigue and burnout. This phenomenon includes alumni coordinators. Part of staying healthy should be appropriate self...
A short history of the publication of the “Big Book” (Alcoholics Anonymous) in 1939 and his approach to modernize the Twelve Steps. He has been rectifying what he considers inconsistencies in the original Big Book, and has updated the language for a...