CHOOSELIFE WALES DRUGS & ALCOHOL ADDICTION RECOVERY WELSH TOWN TALES 4
WELSH TOWN TALES Documentary series filmed over a year, following the stories of people living in and around Llanelli. This once-mighty industrial town struggles to survive the chill winds of recession. With bankruptcy looming, the local firm of Spencer Davies Engineering tries to stave off the receivers, Pembrey Airport attempts to expand the local tourist trade, and a different side of Llanelli is shown through the experience of one family who have lost a son to drugs. Heroin addiction is plaguing our society as heroin addicts have to fund their heroin habits. The path of addiction start much earlier on in someone’s life. Cigarettes are definitely a gateway drug and normally opens the door to cannabis. I really believe that cannabis is the most deceptive drug that there is. We all know that heroin kills people yet cannabis sends a message that it is an okay drug, well it is not. For most heroin users once the heroin is out of their system they then have to learn recovery techniques to overcome their habitual practises and remain consequence free from the drug. Yet when you give up cannabis the THC in the drug deposits itself in brain cells and you can suffer from flashbacks and panic attacks years later. Cannabis is not a safe drug…Cannabis is not a safe drug… Cannabis is not a safe drug….This video is designed to encourage you whether you live in Wales, England, Ireland , Scotland or anyone of those countries in the “United kingdom” or even mainland Europe. There …
Addiction Recovery Through Relationships With God Reload
This video gives insight into the role God plays in all forms of addiction recovery.
About Me and Voice in Recovery- Recovery is Possible
My first vlog!!! Welcome to ViR ~ This video is an intro to who I am, what ViR is all about, and how recovery absolutely is possible from eating disorders, substance abuse, self harm, etc. I believe in you recovery warriors and those who struggle with body image issues!
Embrace Recovery Addiction Treatment Center in Orange County, CA. offers Family Counseling
Living with and loving a person who is addicted to alcohol and/or drugs can be a painful, terrifying and lonely experience. At Embrace Recovery, the preeminent addiction recovery center in Orange County, California, the friends and family of the individual recovering from drug and alcohol dependency and abuse are offered tailor-made counseling and treatment intervention to help them cope with their experiences dealing with their loved one’s addiction and to aid in preparing them for their loved one’s path through the recovery process. In this video, Marriage and Family therapist, Rosemary Kane, one of the highly trained professionals providing support and counseling at Embrace Recovery, explains how the family and friends of an addict can lose sight of their own needs and abandon their own lives when coping with the addiction of their loved one. The family treatment program at Embrace Recovery is designed to address this and other issues within the family, and provide unparalleled support for those supporting the recovering individual. If you or someone you care about is suffering from substance abuse or dependency, don’t hesitate to call Embrace recovery today. The outstanding staff at Embrace Recovery offer a free and confidential assessment of the situation and can provide customized treatment recommendations for not only the person using the substance, but those whose lives are directly affected by them; their friends and family. Embrace Recovery serves the greater …
Discovery to Recovery pt1
nullDiscovery to Recovery – Informational video outlining the challenges facing those seeking substance abuse treatment and mental health rehabilitation recovery services.
Voices and Faces of Recovery – Part 1
Voices and Faces of Recovery – The Addiction Workforce, Voices for the Field – Hosted by the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse will be broadcasted and filmed in conjunction with Harold Washington College on originally broadcast Monday, September 15, 2008. The web cast will feature stories of individuals in recovery among the feature guests will be a female with children, a male who was addicted an incarcerated, an individual who was homeless, an individual who participated in recovery via a faith based organization and an adolescent. – Produced by SI Hersh Productions, Sonny Hersh & Avy Meyers
Voices and Faces of Recovery – Part 3
Voices and Faces of Recovery – The Addiction Workforce, Voices for the Field – Hosted by the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse in conjunction with Harold Washington College. Broadcasted and filmed live on Monday, September 15, 2008. The webcast features stories of individuals in recovery among the feature guests will be a female with children, a male who was addicted an incarcerated, an individual who was homeless, an individual who participated in recovery via a faith based organization and an adolescent. – Produced by SI Hersh Productions, Sonny Hersh & Avy Meyers
Free Substance Abuse Assessment at Embrace Recovery in Orange County, CA.
Sometimes a cocktail is just a drink, but sometimes it’s a real problem. Learn to determine when drug and/or alcohol use becomes substance abuse or dependency. Michael Finch, co-founder of Embrace Recovery in Orange County, CA. , and one of it’s highly trained counselors, describes the difference between substance abuse and substance dependency and outlines some of the simple questions that he uses to help people understand more about their substance use in order to discover whether their behavior poses a problem to their lifestyle, relationships and well being. Michael also offers a free and confidential substance use assessment in the privacy of the Embrace Recovery offices. The free assessment is followed by a customized treatment recommendation for the individual seeking help, as well as for their family members, who are often adversely affected by substance abuse and dependency and the behavior that accompanies it. Embrace Recovery proudly serves the communities in and around Orange County, CA., including Laguna, Laguna Niguel, Irvine, Mission Viejo, San Clemente, Lake Forest, Newport Beach,Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Costa Mesa and Dana Point. For more information and to make an appointment for a free, confidential assessment, call 949 525-3696 or visit Embrace Recovery online at www.embracerecovery.com.
6 stages of change treatingaddiction.info addiction recovery process
Learn the changes your mind will go through as you chart and enter your addiction recovery process. 6 stages of change was developed by Prochaska and DiClementi in the early 1990’s. Video and website by John Carcerano a top addiction recovery expert and self help author. treatingaddiction.info is a free self help website written by John Carcerano to help you, or help you to help a loved one end an addiction to alcoholism or drugs.
Drug Addiction Recovery: the 12 Step Way
I often find myself baffled by the alternatives to 12 step Recovery. It’s kind of right out of the AA Big Book; “looking for an easier, softer way!”
If you really look at what happens to the person that is afflicted with the disease of Addiction, it’s a tale of immorality, unscrupulous ways, and anti-social thinking being adapted to. With the focus of a life becoming narrowed down to obtaining and using a drug, not much is left that would indicate ever needing to be concerned about other people or things, unless they’re needed for that “Quest”! A true Addict, at the height of an Addiction does not care about anyone else, when all is said and done!
The goal of Recovery, in our Society, is once again, or for the first time, to become a productive member of said Society. An Addict most in generally becomes such an anti-social being in many or even just one way that he can no longer blend in with, or hide from the rest of the world. Quite to the contrary, at some point the Addict begins to “stick out like a sore thumb.” Thus they are apprehended by the law for one or more of their anti-social behaviors, if they don’t die first. When Bill and Bob, the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12 step concept, were in the conception and philosophical stages of their journey to Sobriety, they found that they had to very nearly do a 180 degree turnabout. This is the point I’ve been trying to get to in that it is what the 12 step concept guides one into being able to accomplish. This kind of turn-around produces something that I don’t think Bill and Bob would ever have been so presumptuous as to claim but I will. This “way-of-life” produces “Good” people.
True enough, the AA Twelve Step Program provides for the agnostic and only asks that one acknowledge a higher power of some sort. But God had a hand in the whole AA thing. Even though they carefully sculpted the program to leave no one out, they acknowledge God by name, over and over throughout the Big Book. The actual goal that the Big Book accomplishes directly parallels the teachings of Jesus and His Disciples in the New Testament of the Holy Bible, and their goal! The outcome of a good personal 12 step program is what every Preacher, Priest, Minister, Rabbi, or any other Religious leader, is trying to produce with his congregation. I must say though, that the 12 Step Program does propose more of a loving, caring God. A God that only needs to be asked for help and in no way professes Hell or Damnation. This is one of it’s strongest points. My faith was restored by the 12 Step Program because it made it easier for me to believe that I could be forgiven and given Holy Graciousness. Every time that you walk into a meeting room, you see miracles. There, you learn to recognize a miracle when you see one!
Before AA I had given up believing, and thought that what I had done left no room for redemption. I could not even try, because every religion that I had experienced had led me to believe that I was a “hopeless sinner.” I felt that no matter what I did, what I had done, left me destined to “burn in Hell.” Then in meetings I met these people who were so able to care about others. They were people who had changed from one thing into something new. The more of this I saw the easier it became for me to think, “Maybe I could do that too!” Maybe there was hope for someone like me! Maybe God could forgive me! Maybe I could actually become a good person!
I’m a Drug Counselor now. But even with my education that led to certification, I see nothing more powerful, with any better results than 12 Step Recovery. I see where counseling added to 12 Step Recovery, increases success. I will state though that if one or the other had to be taken out of the equation, I believe that the 12 Stepper would do better than someone who only had Counseling. The 12 step concept is sort of a guide to living life, that doesn’t leave out much of anything. In one way or another the answers to the dilemmas of life are covered by the 12 Steps. A lot of information is inside of the 12 Step Group, as members learn and are given interpretations from others, they then pass that info on to others. In this way AA and NA, in particular, carry on the traditions and wisdom of the founders, and even improve on and relate it to new members and it evolves along with Society itself. I’m sure that other 12 Step groups that I have not experienced must do the same. Where I live there are several AA groups that have been around since 1949, only 10 years after the Big Book was published! There’s almost always an “Old Timer” around to bounce things off of. Yet, there are also, often, teenagers mingled in with the group.
Most people involved with a 12 Step group will tell you that it’s the people, sharing a common problem that gives them the most strength in their battle against alcoholism and addiction. 12 Step recovery is FREE and provides a built in support system that you can count on the first time you show up. New people or “Newcomers” are considered the most important one in the room. This is a fact of the 12 Step concept. The first day you walk in the door you can become a permanent part of the group with no other qualification other than a “desire to stop drinking or using”! The fact is that looking for an easier, softer way can, in the world of drug addiction be a “fatal” mistake… because active addiction leads only to agony, jails, institutions and death!
I am a certified substance abuse counselor, and recovering addict, in California. I have 12 years clean time and have been a counselor most of that. I have served as a treatment program Director. I have worked going into prisons recruiting inmates for aftercare drug treatment programs. My calling is as a counselor because I love the reward of helping others to find a life, as I have after using drugs for nearly 30 years.