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How Recovery In a 12 Step Program Works

Welcome to our 12 Step Blog at Squidoo. We are glad you are here, and hope to meet many of you along our travels.
Our lense is about Addiction a concern today in almost every family. You can never have to much information out there if it means one person will read.
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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One Day At A Time

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Staying Clean And Sober

How Recovery In a 12 Step Program Works

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

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Surrender

What is Addiction?

Why The 12 Steps

Because We Were Dying To Know How

Clean and Sober Gifts

One Day At A Time

History Of Chip Giving

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