Addiction: It’s Devastating for Every Family
By: Chelsea Vaughn I Think There’s Something Wrong in my Family What do you do when you can tell something is not quite right…
Category: Family Recovery
Bridging The Gap: Improving Treatment Outcomes With Effective Family Engagement
By Jim Savage, LCDC Family Challenges in Treatment I’ve worked in the addiction field for over 30 years. One of the most significant periods was from 2000-2010, when I owned an adolescent outpatient treatment program. During that time, I got a good education about what works and what doesn’t in addiction treatment,…
Casualties of Addiction: Our Children
Did I realize that I’d taken up arms against my children when I started using? No, I did not set out to harm them; however, that was the result. And just as the history books record the injustices done, each of my children recollects the harm from her perspective.
BRANCH MANAGER OR ASSISTANT BRANCH MANAGER?
By Whitney McKendree Moore Who’s The Real Manager Here? This photograph was posted with the caption, “BRANCH MANAGER AND ASSISTANT BRANCH MANAGER.” I howled (pun intended) because that little dangler is me. My real puny status was not in the least bit funny when I first crawled into Twelve-Step recovery, exhausted from years of…