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Drug and Alcohol Interventions: Do They Work?

When families contact us here at Suntra Modern Recovery, one of the most common questions is about the success rate of our addiction intervention services. What we’ve found is that many people have little or no understanding of what an intervention is. In pop culture and the media, interventions are portrayed as…

Addiction is a Response to Trauma: My Halloween Story

I don’t know how a trauma in my family a few generations back might show up in my life, that is until I recently passed up buying a pumpkin. I stood in front of a beautiful pumpkin at a farm stand. It was marked half price and I stood in front of it, frozen, unable to decide if I wanted to buy it. I walked away from that pumpkin feeling sick to my stomach.

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When an Addict Says, “I’ll think about it”

Thinking about recovery is about as effective as thinking about going to the gym. it does nothing to help the person actually recover.

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MBA Lessons in Recovery: Using the 12 Steps to Build Social Capital

There are 3 steps in AA that directly relate to rebuilding social capital that we broke during our addiction, steps 8,9,10. By working these steps, we rebuild the relationships that we neglected during addiction.