Canadian Addiction Recovery Network Reviews how and why 12 Step Addiction Programs have become outdated and low in success rates. Toronto, Ontario, February 3, 2017 (Newswire.com) - For over fifty ...

The first eleven steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) approach to recovery focus on the individual answering questions about finding freedom from alcohol and other drugs. Even the eighth and ninth ...

“This is not an either/or dynamic—it’s both/and.” —Jamie Marich, Ph.D. Over the last two decades, it has become clear that a significant percentage of people who struggle with addiction to alcohol and ...

“Smoking was my first love,” says Laura Marie, who lit her first cigarette at age 15. Despite seeing the effects of smoking up close — her grandmother died of emphysema, and her sister died of lung ...

Looking back on my experiences with leukemia and with alcoholism, I realized that the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous can be applied to life with cancer. When I went into treatment for alcoholism ...

Advent, Ramadan, Hanukkah, Mindfulness Day, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Winter Solstice, Christmas or Kwanzaa. On the day after Christmas, the Zoroastrians among us commemorated the death of their prophet, ...

Editor -- With regard to "Sobering look at 12-step addiction programs," (Dec. 29): The modern secular community has become tremendously complex and fluid. Easy solutions to the problem of identity are ...