If you spend much time around addicts, you’ll quickly discover that just about everyone has some type of origin story that they’ll share about how they decided to get sober. In fact, I think that one of the most common questions people ask in the beginning is who convinced you to go to to AA […]
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Can you actually stay sober without AA? Absolutely! AA is only of many ways to achieve and maintain sobriety. In fact, AA has a pretty dismal success rate. Addiction treatment professionals peg its average long-term effectiveness (meaning maintaining sobriety with no relapses for at least one full year) at somewhere between 8 and 12 percent.
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Substance abuse can ravage your life. If you’re mired in the misery of addiction, life can seem hopeless. However, there is hope. That hope is in recovery. Millions have recovered from an apparently hopeless condition of mind and body. You may wonder how. A common bond between those recovering from a substance abuse disorder is
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There are a number of paths someone can take to find help for a substance abuse disorder. For decades, people with alcoholism have flocked to the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. Millions claim years of sober time, dedicating AA for saving their lives. Many AA fellowships welcome people with issues other than alcoholism. However, the primary
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Battling an addiction can be a challenge. An important part of recovery is forming connections with others who are striving to stay clean and sober. Alcoholics have a worldwide fellowship called Alcoholics Anonymous or AA. AA has helped millions of alcoholics stay sober. But what if something happened that there weren’t any AA meeting? What
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