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Resources,links,stories,recovery gifts,polls,and feeback from others in recovery is our goal. It is our hopes that we get all people reading in recovery to stop by and take a moment to participate in our recovery. The 12 Step programs today consist of over 200 different kinds of 12 step addictions. The steps started by Bill Wilson and Doctor Bob now are practiced world wide in meetings, rehabs, even churches.
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What is Addiction?
Addiction recovery can be a really tough process for the patient as well as the patient's family and friends. It can have disastrous impact on a person's life, and in the life of his/her family. For the patient to recover completely, lot of love, care and understanding will be required. Personal strength along with family support and good professional help can do the trick in addiction recovery.Information on addiction is the first step towards addiction recovery. Types of addictions include drug addiction, alcohol addiction and eating disorders. Drug or substance abuse includes addition to prescription drugs, meth addiction, cocaine addiction, etc. Drug addiction also includes Opiod addiction, in which the drug prescribed by the doctor for pain control is taken by the patient on a regular basis, without any prescription, as he/she gets addicted to the drug and cannot do without it. The patient has an uncontrollable urge to keep taking the medication. Eating disorders include anorexia, compulsive eating and bulimia.
The first step to recovery is admitting that the problem exists. A patient should try and understand whether he/she is chemically dependent on alcohol or drugs. There are few questions that patients can ask themselves, which will enable them to understand the problem. They should understand if they are unhappy with their lives, whether they are always preoccupied with the thoughts of using drugs or drinking, whether anyone else has ever suggested that you might have an addiction problem, if you frequently drink alone and are not worried about the consequence, is your life and relationships are getting negatively affected due to addiction, do you spend money meant for other purposes on drugs or alcohol, do you hide facts about your drinking and drug usage from others and do your compromise your morals and values for a drink or drug usage. Answering these questions, you can understand your problem and start working towards curing your addictions.
Having information on addiction, acknowledging your problem and reaching out for help is the best way to deal with any kind of addiction. There are institutions which are committed towards addiction recovery. With dedicated expertise they work with an individual and guide him/her through the process, to complete recovery. The kinds of treatment available at these institutions are modified as per your convenience. For example, you can take advantage of these treatments while working, studying or staying at home. Curing your addiction will be beneficial to you in the long run. The health benefits, financial benefits and improvement in one's quality of life should be enough motivation for anyone to stop using drugs and alcohol.
Why The 12 Steps
Because We Were Dying To Know How
The Twelve Steps, originated by Alcoholics Anonymous, is the spritual foundation for personal recovery from the effects of alcoholism, not only for the alcoholic, but also for their friends and family in Al-Anon Family Groups.Many members of 12-step recovery programs have found that these steps were not merely a way to stop drinking, but they became a guide toward a new way of life.
These are the Steps We Took
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
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Stop By For Some Cake or Just Say Hey
Our dates of recovery show it works. Please take a moment to share your birthday for others. Thanks
I make a mean upside down cake. In a few more years when I am a teenager I hope to figure out how to turn it back to the right side. But I saved a slice for you...
My Clean and Sober date is Nov 19 2000 what's yours?
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TinkerM Nov 8, 2009 @ 8:23 pm | in reply to Cindy E. in SC | delete
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Thanks Cindy and wow you are truly a inspiration. And believe me if Pot worked for me I would now probably use it, but I could never tolerate it, would think I was a lighweight..LOL but the harder drugs I did..go figure. The pain meds have so many side affects. My doctor told me that if you use pain meds for pain you can't get addicted. Said the meds go to the pain sensors not the to get high sensors...hmmmm. But I do also believe there is no valor in pain, and each person has to be true to themselves. We have changed I think in so many ways that the alternative is not even worth thinking of anymore. Getting to old!!
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Cindy E. in SC
Nov 7, 2009 @ 5:51 pm | in reply to TinkerM | delete
- Wow! TinkerM, I can really relate to your story, mine is a bit different, tho. I have severe scoliosis and am recovering from cancer.The chemo and radiation did quite a number on my bones, especially my spine. Now its crumbling into my pelvis, but they cant operate until my bones are stronger, so I'm in constant pain. Alcohol was my drug of choice for almost for almost 37 years and painkillers are very dangerous for me since I've been addicted before and the damage they can do to your liver (the alcohol already did enough.. But a few puffs of pot helps so much. So, if I outweigh the differences and the damage between the two, pot makes sense. I'm very sorry about your brother and my heart goes out to you. I lost my brother from complications due to alcohol and painkillers. High Fives to everyone whose struggling ( and not struggling) to overcome their addictions. It takes a brave soul. And IF you have a relapse, you can always start anew, AA is always there.
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TinkerM Jun 20, 2009 @ 1:48 pm | in reply to papawu | delete
- Where I live they are making Pot legal and I agree it should be. I was not much a pot smoker did not do it for me, figures now its becoming legal.LOL. But I when I have tried lesser drugs than the one I used I always go back to my drug of choice, so for me its safer to be off everything. I was in Med school when I hit bottom, and thought all my life it was about willpower. For some its not. My brother died last year of a heroin overdose, after being clean and sober for 15 years. He did it cold turkey and one day picked up again and had no support system to call first. I am happy for you sometimes we use just as its a time in our lives, my son had a period of using now just smokes pot also. He is not however compulsive obsessive so may never have a problem with it. For me one of anything addicting is to many as I cannot stop...food now especially...LOL but that's me a little piggy on anything that feels good. Thank you please keep in touch.
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- I am very happy for you and wish you well. I have never really been a drinker, but went quite a few years addicted to cocaine. I was fortunate enough to have been able to quit cold turkey without the need for any programs or assistance. I had simply gotten fed up with it and the amounts of money I was wasting on it was horrendous. I think it had more to due with having matured and grown up finally. I started back in college socially and it just carried on for the next 12 years of my life. I now have no need or want of it. I can't seem to stop smoking pot though. I just don't want to stop. Maybe I'll grow out of this too someday, but just not now or any time soon. Best of luck to you though.
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TinkerM Mar 11, 2009 @ 3:56 pm | in reply to rgnt211 | delete
- Thank you its been a strange journey but well worth it.
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