How Does A Freedom Model Presenter Help A Retreat Guest Facilitate Change?
Human change is an unavoidable human experience. At its core, it’s a completely personal...
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Category: Addiction Prevention
Approaching Someone You Love About a Substance Use Problem
In 1989, my father and sister had a talk with me because they were concerned that I had an alcohol...
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Non 12 Step- What Is It?
Non 12 Step – What Does this Mean?30 years ago, I had just matriculated out of a long term...
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Loving Someone “In Recovery”
When you send your spouse or significant other to rehab, you’re hoping that the end results...
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Are You Ready To Move Past Recovery?
When most “addicts” or “alcoholics” make the decision to quit or moderate their substance usage,...
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Costly Habits Are Chosen Habits Still
The Positive Drive Principle (PDP): the principle that humans will always act to move in the...
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12 Step Indoctrination Creates Addicts
“Remember that we deal with alcohol – cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is...
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One Man’s Tale of Escaping the 12 Step Recovery Trap
I was a child who grew up in an AA household from as far back as I can remember. It was the...
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Why Recovery Is No Different Than An Addiction
The Freedom Model for Addictions has the tagline, Escape the Treatment and Recovery Trap. It’s...
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Do Drug Addicts Have A Choice?
Can people diagnosed with the various addictions (or Substance Use Disorders, in modern parlance)...
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Calling Addiction a Disease Does Not Reduce Stigma
There is a lot of talk about stigma with respect to addiction. Those who promote that addiction is...
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Addiction is NOT a Family Disease!
Substance use problems (addiction) have been thought of as a family issue for years. Is addiction a family disease?
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