Can we talk? I talked to you about addiction and all its many faces and phases. What Addiction Is Not purpose is to make you aware. With this awareness you can this you see if you or any of your friends or family needs some help with what is called addiction. The good news is there is some help available and this is a good place to start looking around to see what you know and what you don’t know about this phenomena that has affected the general population. Your feedback or some reaching out for me or my assistance. Here is an excellent way to do just that, go to:
You can arrange to call me at a time when it is convenient for you or you can just call, I am usually available. The beginning to recover is always the hardest but with a little help it get easier. Let me run some of this by you.
1. Recovery is a process
A. Persons in treatment may have completed some or none of the initial stages of recovery.
B. The initial stages of the recovery process may be the most difficult.
C. Recovery is a process that needs to be ongoing.
1. If we stop growing, we will regress
2. Recovery can become an exciting and rewarding way of life.
II. Recognition is the first stage of the recovery process
A. Recognition is seeing that my problems are related to my alcoholism/chemical dependency and should include acknowledging that:
1. “I drink/use because of my disease and not because of people, places, things or conditions in my life.”
2. “I have a disease and am not a bad person.”
3. “I am not responsible for contracting this disease.”
4. “I am responsible for recovery.”
B. With recognition of my problem, I can begin the next page.
III Asking for help is the second stage of the recovery process
A. I have proven to myself that I cannot recover by myself (repeated relapses) and that I need help.
B. My asking for help requires a willingness to accept the help given.
C. I need help to seek and use the help of those who have knowledge of alcoholism/chemical dependency and recovery.
1. A.A./N.A.
2. Hospitals and Programs Treatment
3. Professionals who are knowledgeable
IV. Admission is the third stage of the recovery process
A. Acceptance is the fourth stage of the recovery process
1. In A.A. terms, it is “admission to my innermost self.”
2. All of my excuses and doubts are gone.
3. I understand, without reservations, that I drink because I am alcoholic and/or I use because I’m addicted.
4. I believe that no person, place, thing or condition was ever or will ever be responsible for my drinking/using
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