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Overcoming the Impulse to Use Drugs or Alcohol ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/drug-addiction/overcoming-impulse-use-drugs-alcohol/

Overcoming the Impulse to Use Drugs or Alcohol - Spiritual River Addiction Help How can a struggling alcoholic or drug addict overcome the impulse to use drugs or alcohol in early recovery? The first thing that you should know about impulse control is that it is going to be completely useless up until the point of “real surrender.” In other words, if an alcoholic or drug ad...

Why Effective Vaccines for Drug Addiction are Not Actually that Helpful ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/news/why-effective-vaccines-for-drug-addiction-are-not-actually-that-helpful/

Why Effective Vaccines for Drug Addiction are Not Actually that Helpful - Spiritual River Addiction Help The idea of a drug addiction vaccine is very neat and tidy. “Let’s just create a vaccine for co***ne that renders it ineffective. Problem solved, right?” Wrong. Futurism says that “But there’s a reason that there are no true drug vaccines on the market; the challenge here isn’t mak...

Are Behavioral Addictions Real? ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/news/are-behavioral-addictions-real/

Are Behavioral Addictions Real? - Spiritual River Addiction Help You have undoubtedly heard about things such as s*x addiction, food addiction, video game addiction, and so on. But are those things actually real in the same way that alcohol addiction is real? Are they functionally similar to, say, painkiller addiction? The new thinking is that these behavioral ad...

The Traits that You Really Need in Drug Addiction Recovery ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/holistic/the-traits-that-you-really-need-in-drug-addiction-recovery/

The Traits that You Really Need in Drug Addiction Recovery - Spiritual River Addiction Help What traits do you need in order to really succeed in alcohol or drug addiction recovery? The first thing that you need, without a doubt, is the trait of total and complete surrender. Without surrender there can be no recovery. This is because, as someone who was addicted to something, you have been...

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Why Some Addicts and Alcoholics Who Seem to Have Everything Going for them Still Relapse ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/alcoholism/why-some-addicts-and-alcoholics-who-seem-to-have-everything-going-for-them-still-relapse/

Why Some Addicts and Alcoholics Who Seem to Have Everything Going for them Still Relapse - Spiritual River Addiction Help Why do some addicts and alcoholics in recovery who seem to have everything going for them still end up relapsing? What could possibly be going on inside of a person for them to turn back to the chaos and misery of their addiction when everything seems to be going pretty well in their recovery? It .....

Preparing for the Most Intense Temptation You Will Face in Addiction Recovery ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/addiction-treatment/preparing-for-the-most-intense-temptation-you-will-face-in-addiction-recovery/

Preparing for the Most Intense Temptation You Will Face in Addiction Recovery - Spiritual River Addiction Help Everyone in addiction recovery is going to face temptation eventually. Your job in early recovery is to learn the skills and build enough support so that when that temptation inevitably hits you, you will be able to handle it and get through it clean and sober. But in order to do that you must put ....

Simple Truths About the Alcoholic Mind in Recovery ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/alcoholism/simple-truths-about-the-alcoholic-mind-in-recovery/

Simple Truths About the Alcoholic Mind in Recovery - Spiritual River Addiction Help The alcoholic or addict mind is a strange thing. If you go to any recovery program you will notice very quickly that the people who are there–the addicts and alcoholics–are by no means stupid people. Some of them are downright brilliant and there seems to be no real correlation between intellige...

The Upside of Struggling through Early Addiction Recovery -http://www.spiritualriver.com/addiction-treatment/the-upside-of-struggling-through-early-addiction-recovery/

The Upside of Struggling through Early Addiction Recovery - Spiritual River Addiction Help I am not going to lie here: Early addiction recovery is a struggle. There is just no way around this simple truth. Alcoholism and drug addiction recovery are difficult. No way around it. No easy button. No magic shortcut. You may believe that if you had unlimited funding that you could somehow “bu...

The Key Factor in Reinventing Yourself in Long Term Sobriety ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/holistic/the-key-factor-in-reinventing-yourself-in-long-term-sobriety/

The Key Factor in Reinventing Yourself in Long Term Sobriety - Spiritual River Addiction Help The key factor in truly changing who you are as a person in long term recovery is if you are willing to test new ideas and experiment with your life based on the suggestions of other people. In other words, you need to take advice. Over and over again. Most people do not realize that …

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The Biggest Warning Sign of Impending Addiction Relapse ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/holistic/the-biggest-warning-sign-of-impending-addiction-relapse/

The Biggest Warning Sign of Impending Addiction Relapse - Spiritual River Addiction Help In my experience, and in my opinion, the biggest warning sign that an alcoholic or an addict is about to relapse is frustration and anger. More specifically, this frustration will have a selfish quality to it, which is essentially the person saying “The world owes me something and it is unfair wha...

Find Addiction Treatment Right Now ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/addiction-treatment/find-addiction-treatment-right-now/

Find Addiction Treatment Right Now - Spiritual River Addiction Help Today is the day: Time to make a decision. If you have sat on the fence for a while, and you feel as if you probably should do something about your drinking or drug use, but you just don’t want to, then maybe today is the day to change that. All it takes is one …

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One Simple Trick to Your Sobriety Success ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/alcoholism/one-simple-trick-to-your-sobriety-success/

One Simple Trick to Your Sobriety Success - Spiritual River Addiction Help If there is a single, simple trick to success in sobriety, it is this: Just surrender. Surrender totally and completely. Now by itself, that advice is not really all that useful, because it is not clear to a person how exactly they are supposed to “just surrender.” I know this because at one tim...

The Inside Scoop on Successful Drug Rehab Completion ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/addiction-treatment/the-inside-scoop-on-successful-drug-rehab-completion/

The Inside Scoop on Successful Drug Rehab Completion - Spiritual River Addiction Help In order to rebuild your life post addiction, one needs to consider the idea that going to inpatient treatment just might be their best option. The problem is that many people who do attend an inpatient treatment center do not actually follow through and complete it successfully. Why not? In most ca...

Could a New Drug End Addiction as We Know it? ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/news/could-a-new-drug-end-addiction-as-we-know-it/

Could a New Drug End Addiction as We Know it? - Spiritual River Addiction Help What if a new drug could act as a vaccine against op**te addiction? Apparently such medication are in development now. The New York Times says that “If it works, the vaccine would stop opioids by effectively blocking them from reaching the brain by way of the circulatory system.” So the op**te a...

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How Can I Eliminate My Drug Cravings? ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/addiction-treatment/how-can-i-eliminate-my-drug-cravings/

How Can I Eliminate My Drug Cravings? - Spiritual River Addiction Help If you want to eliminate alcohol or drug cravings then my suggestion to you is this: Go to inpatient treatment, build a foundation, and then rebuild a life that is truly worth living. This is the path to eliminating cravings and triggers that make you want to relapse. Now in order to do this very .....

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Opioid Crisis Overshadows, but Alcoholism Still a Huge Problem ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/news/opioid-crisis-overshadows-but-alcoholism-still-a-huge-problem/

Opioid Crisis Overshadows, but Alcoholism Still a Huge Problem - Spiritual River Addiction Help The op**te crisis is making headlines over and over again, but we have to remember that alcoholism is still a rampant problem in our country, and we still need to make efforts when it comes to the struggling alcoholic. WMUR reports that “We hear a lot about the opioid epidemic right now, but we do...

How to Give Yourself Every Advantage in Sobriety ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/alcoholism/how-to-give-yourself-every-advantage-in-sobriety/

How to Give Yourself Every Advantage in Sobriety - Spiritual River Addiction Help Winning the game of sobriety is all about stacking up enough advantages in your favor. If you do a few things correctly, but you have a whole mountain of triggers and urges facing you every single day, then you are probably going to relapse. Likewise, if you manage to avoid most daily triggers but y...

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Taking Your Addiction Treatment One Step Further ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/addiction-treatment/taking-your-addiction-treatment-one-step-further/

Will I Ever be Confident if I Get Clean and Sober? ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/alcoholism/will-i-ever-be-confident-if-i-get-clean-and-sober/

Will I Ever be Confident if I Get Clean and Sober? - Spiritual River Addiction Help I can remember having one full year of continuous sobriety and thinking to myself: “I’m still not very confident in my recovery.” And that was okay. At the time, I did not feel bad about this, even though I had secretly hoped that I would be far more confident in my sobriety much sooner than ....

Discover the Real You in Alcohol Addiction Recovery ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/alcoholism/discover-the-real-you-in-alcohol-addiction-recovery/

Discover the Real You in Alcohol Addiction Recovery - Spiritual River Addiction Help How do you go about “finding yourself” in addiction recovery? What does the process look like, and what steps does a struggling addict or alcoholic need to take in order to discover “their real self” again? In my experience, the process begins with surrender. You have to let go of that perso...

Should I Strive for Self Acceptance or Try to Improve Myself in Sobriety? ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/holistic/should-i-strive-for-self-acceptance-or-try-to-improve-myself-in-sobriety/

Should I Strive for Self Acceptance or Try to Improve Myself in Sobriety? - Spiritual River Addiction Help In any given situation in your addiction recovery journey, you could have one of two possible responses: A) You could try to accept the situation and accept yourself, just as it is now, or B) You could try to change yourself or the situation. The first option is all about accepting reality with grac...

The Benefits of Personal Growth in Sobriety ~ http://www.spiritualriver.com/holistic/the-benefits-of-personal-growth-in-sobriety/

The Benefits of Personal Growth in Sobriety - Spiritual River Addiction Help When you attempt to quit drinking and get sober, you are faced with a particularly interesting challenge. The challenge is this: If you let go of alcohol and stop self medicating with it, your life improves up to a certain point. But in order to really thrive in sobriety and avoid relapse in the lon...