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From Sensation and Avoidance to Serenity

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Addiction creates heightened needs for sensation. Its consequences produce the need for avoidance. What was once a short-term thrill or remedy, becomes a repeated pattern of running to and from. Attachment to the chemical solution becomes increasingly strong. In the turmoil created by using short-term solutions over a long span of time, medium to long-term […]

EAPA San Fernando Valley

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  EAPA San Fernando Valley August 24, 8:30am Networking  9 – 11 am 2 CE Presentation (without break) Managing and Understanding the Angry Client/ Employee Anita Avedian, M.S., LMFT, CAMS-IV, Certified v  Anger Management Specialist IV, Director, Anger Management 818    Meeting Location: Foundations Los Angeles 17167 Ventura Blvd., Encino CA 91316 For details, special accommodations or to RSVP, please […]

Real Time Recovery in Real Life

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  When you find yourself with an addiction or alcoholism, do you move away or do you change in real life? External remedies are often sought to solve internal matters. Eventually, change has to happen in real life in real time. A safe and comfortable retreat where all needs are met sounds like a great idea […]

Freedom from Want for Christmas

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  For Christmas, I want to be freed from my wants. Rather than fantasizing about and striving for things and events which bring pleasure and relieve discomfort, in recovery we act to give, rather than to receive. Our motives shift from feeding an appetite toward higher purposes and being one with others. Recovery grants fulfillment, […]

Ethical Informed Consent: “Medically and Financially Unnecessary?”

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Is it ethically necessary for providers to inform the consumer and/or payer that medically and/or financially unnecessary levels of SUD treatment/ rehabilitation are optional or at best, elective? Looking through the ASAM Criteria for Addictive, Substance-Related and Co-Occurring Conditions (SUD) levels of care, it is impossible to find equine therapy, yoga, psychoanalysis, five-star dining, massage […]

Sober in the World and Leather Soles

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To protect your feet, is it easier to wear shoes or to cover the earth in leather? Alcoholics and addicts need relief from pain and pleasure. Without assistance, their brains don’t seem to sense relief and pleasure easily. Drinking and drug use has been their solution for discomfort and the pursuit of pleasure. Recovery is […]

Recovery = Release from Attachment

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You are owned by your attachments and controlled by your needs. For what are you attached… approval, financial gain, prestige, power, possession, security, relief from discomfort, gratification, pleasure? Perhaps the means to maintaining these attachments create conflict or distress between you and others. Solutions which return you to your attachments could be illegal or unethical. […]

What, Change?

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Though some in recovery might practice “old behavior” for a while, patterns and consequences of the past return until they find their capacity to change. Those who help others recover can forget that they too are vulnerable to the complexities and subtleties of this disease. The media is full of practitioners of recovery caught in […]

Traveling or Recovering- A Geographic Cure?

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There exist many reasons why some people think that drug rehab requires travel, time away from home, at a significant financial burden. Most reasons involve money for the residential rehab and a belief in geographic cures. Much more revenue is created in the drug rehab industry when twenty-four-hour room, board and care are provided whether […]

Can You Trust Treatment?

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Why is trusting addiction treatment providers a concern? The practice of business and personal ethics is essential when providing treatment for addiction. When patients become commodities to be traded and paid for on the open market like cattle at an auction, how far does that message permeate the entire treatment milieu? When a referral sources/ […]