Archive for Addiction Treatment Alternatives
What is the role of psychotherapy in outpatient care for addiction?
The role of therapy in outpatient care, depending on what professional you talk, varies considerably from disease oriented people, twelve steppers tend to see psychotherapist as anti-therapeutic or anti AA. That’s always where that schism that tends to happen. It’s not a 100% of the time but generally speaking psychotherapy is not endorsed from my [...]
What is a “relapse” in addiction?
Relapse is considered a full blown return to the destructive behavior. A lapse in a slip are more just temporary return, picking yourself back up rather quickly, getting back on the horse metaphorically and getting back on with life. Where relapse, again, is considered something that ranges anywhere from one or two days, week to [...]
How can I tell if I need extra help with addiction recovery?
The need for extra help is a very personal decision. I, of course, as a mental health professional think that extra help is always useful. If you were on a diet, would you not hire a private trainer if you could, or if you were in some other situation, getting a degree in something, would [...]
What kind of plan can prevent relapse in addiction?
Ideally, you take this information after the relapse, and you strategize to try to see whether there are patterns? Are there people that you should be avoiding? Are there any particular type of events you should try to avoid? And, if you can’t avoid those events, how would you handle – and I’m just going [...]
What can a addict learn from relapse?
Relapse can be an extraordinarily positive experience if you sit down after a relapse, in a sort of calm state, with a piece of paper and ask yourself such things as what was going on just prior to the relapse, who you were with just prior to the relapse, how you were feeling inside just [...]
Can medication help to keep a behavioral addict sober?
It’s my opinion that medication can be extremely helpful in recovery and of course this depends on the addiction that you have and whether we have the medicines that will address your particular addictions. But, medications aren’t going to cure the addiction, but they are going to diminish, perhaps, the craving or yearning for the [...]
What are high-risk situations a addict should avoid?
There are many high-risk situations when you are recovering. But, this is an extraordinarily important point: in the disease model, in the twelve-step model, there is a belief that all high-risk situations should be avoided. Let’s say there was, you were trying to recover from alcohol or something like that, and there was a big [...]