Addiction Recovery: A Spiritual Program
If you are a young adult reading this, there is a chance that you may know addiction first hand. If that is the case, we at Guardian IOP are glad that you found this ...
Treatment for Women With Alcoholism
Addiction never discriminates. Counselors working in the field know this with certainty. There isn’t a single demographic that is spared from the pernicious grips of this most serious mental health disorder. At the moment, ...
If You Are Miserable in Sobriety, You Are Doing Something Wrong
I’d imagine that anybody who goes through the effort of working the twelve steps and actually admits to being an alcoholic- they did so for a specific reason. Let’s face the facts here, nobody ...
You Won’t Stay Clean by Living Dirty
You won’t stay clean by living dirty - kind of paradoxical huh? Staying sober, in one form or another, has a lot more attention to detail than most realize. This is where the politics ...
Beware Kava and Kratom
There are many mind-altering substances prone to abuse today. Some are the more obvious ones that a person is likely to associate with substance abuse, including alcohol, marijuana, painkillers, benzodiazepines, cocaine, heroin, and numerous ...
A Breakdown of the 12 Steps and Its Purpose
Unwelcome situations and uncomfortable moments have been the bane of my existence for years. For some ghastly amount of time, I have created senseless difficulties in my life time and time again. Not that ...
What to Look for in Healthy, Sober Friends
Human beings are pretty complicated creatures. Compare the human anatomy to the anatomy of, say, an earthworm and you’ll see just how many intricate systems that we have keeping us running. On a behavioral ...
When You’re Caught Off Guard By Drug Dreams
Addiction recovery is a very time-consuming, complicated process, especially when you consider that it really doesn’t take all that long to become addicted in the first place. It almost seems like a cruel joke ...
Setting Goals in Sobriety: Steps Toward a Better Future
It’s not difficult to develop an addiction to alcohol or drugs, but the cosmic irony of it all is that it would be quite difficult to come back from it. We tend to think ...
Amazing Books on Recovery: Spirituality
It’s not difficult to become addicted but it’s quite difficult to come back from addiction. According to research, only about one in ten addicts are receiving any treatment, which means the remaining 90 percent ...
