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“BOUT TOWN” 1990 – Bill Wolar interviews David Salas in Miami Springs Senior High School regarding David’s recovery from alcoholism. Copyright 1990 by Bill Wolar. Used with permission from Bill Wolar.
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Sobriety and Abstinence – 2 Distinctly Different Terms in Drug and Alcohol Recovery

Becoming abstinent and entering recovery or sobriety aer two distinct processes.

Entering and growing in recovery or working on sobriety is much different than abstinence, simply stopping the use of drugs and alcohol. Becoming sober is a process, not an event. Some people enter treatment, complete it and believe they are done; that is no so.

Achieving sobriety and growing in recovery is a progressive, developmental process. There are phases of recovery which are moved through, each with its unique tasks, lessons and skills to be acquired. The first building block of sobriety, the cornerstone in fact, is achieving abstinence. Here is what is meant by abstinence:

Abstinence –

Sober Living Homes Essential For Recovery

Drug and alcohol addicts have several options when leaving a rehab facility, a sober living home is one of them. Some rehab facilities consider this to be a vital part of the drug treatment/rehabilitation process because a stable supportive environment provides a solid foundation for recovering alcoholics/addicts to continue growing in their recovery. Sober living is a state of being, living a clean and sober lifestyle; living life without drugs and alcohol and striving to avoid relapses which can occur days, weeks, or months after treatment.

Christian drug alcohol recovery and rehabiltiation

Jim was an addict for 30 years. In that time he lost his marriage and his two children went on to have their own drug problems as teenagers. He taught his son how to cook methamphetamine and almost lost him to noxious fumes when a cook went bad.

Eventually, Jim was homeless and living on the property of a home that he was doing renovation work on. The owner of the property came to check on the work Jim had been doing. Jim had been up for three days in a drug-induced frenzy.

Jim asked the man if he’d give him some money for the work he had done. “I’ll give you some money Jim…” The man said, ” but you really have to learn how to love yourself”. Jim had never heard it quite this way before, but it didn’t stop him from getting in his stolen truck and heading off to his drug dealer’s house for a fix.

A.a. Study Groups: Christian Recovery With Dick B

A.A. Study Groups

Christian Recovery with Dick B.

Dick B.

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More and more AAs, 12 Step members, recovery pastors, clergy, counselors, and treatment leaders are phoning or emailing me each day about study groups. Sometimes they simply want to know how to start an A.A. history study group. Sometimes a Big Book-Bible study group. Sometimes a Christian recovery group based on the Big Book or the Twelve Steps and the Bible. Sometimes they want to adopt and copy, as far as possible, the idea of a James Club—the original name the Akron AAs favored for their Society because the Book of James was their favorite Bible study book.

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