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Defusing Dysfunctional Relationships Using the Karpman Drama Triangle

September 20, 2016 / By / Personal Resources

Addiction and dysfunctional relationships provide a dizzying array of interactions that are sometimes daunting to comprehend, let alone resolve. Each person’s role in the affiliation shifts and changes depending on their habitual means of viewing the world, as well as their entrenched communication styles. Based in part on family-of-origin patterns, in addition to learned behaviors, …

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7 Facts About Substance Abuse Every EAP Professional Should Know

September 20, 2016 / By Promises Behavioral Health / Addiction, Addiction Treatment for Professionals, Mental Health

Employee assistance programs (EAPs) have the potential to be powerful ammunition on the frontlines of addiction and mental health issues in the workforce. As more companies begin to rely on EAPs to help alleviate barriers to timely, affordable behavioral healthcare services, it’s important that EAP professionals are up to speed on some key facts about …

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How to Break Your Love Addiction

September 14, 2016 / By / Sex Addiction

Being addicted to love sounds pleasant enough, but it can have seriously negative consequences. Love addiction prevents you from finding real love, establishing healthy relationships and enjoying your life to the fullest. Understanding love addiction and taking concrete steps to change the way you interact in relationships will help you move forward. You may even …

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Hypnosis Might Help You Overcome Addiction

September 14, 2016 / By / Therapies

Research into hypnosis as a treatment tool for addiction has shown that this alternative practice can help some people. Results are mixed, though, and it seems that the strategy is best used as a tool within a more traditional and comprehensive approach to addiction treatment. If you’re interested in trying it, work with the professionals …

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Soccer Legend Wambach Scores New Goal — Sobriety

September 13, 2016 / By Promises Behavioral Health / Recovery

On the soccer field, she may have seemed superhuman. But in her personal life, she was anything but, says Abby Wambach, the world’s leading scorer in international goals.

Finding a Different Kind of Magic in Life After Meth

September 8, 2016 / By / Testimonials

When she was in her teens, Shannon R. began searching for “something magical to help me be happy every day.” Marijuana, though enjoyable, wasn’t enough. Ecstasy was “tons of fun, but I never felt like, ‘Oh my God, I want to do this every day.’” And mushrooms and other psychedelics unnerved her. Then when she …

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After Addiction Nightmare, Waking to Happiness

September 8, 2016 / By / Testimonials

About the fifth morning of his stay at addiction rehab, an unusual thing happened to Basim H. He awoke with a smile on his face. “A kind of happiness had returned to me,” he remembered, “and that’s when I started realizing that all the drinking and drugs I’d been using for so long — I …

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After 30 Years of Marijuana Use, the Smoke Clears

September 8, 2016 / By / Marijuana

When Paul* traces the history of his troubled relationship with marijuana, he points to a moment from early childhood. “It was 1976 and we were at a lake we went to every weekend, and I remember someone was smoking pot on a different boat and the smell wafted across and I said, ‘What is that?’ …

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Imprisoned by Addiction, Freed by Recovery

September 8, 2016 / By / Recovery

Becky R. believes in miracles. How else can she explain the change in her life from two years ago when she heard a judge say these words after her arrest for selling ecstasy to an undercover agent: “You will spend a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 45 in the Illinois Department of …

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Need to Get Educated About the Campus Drug Scene? Addiction Expert Says ‘Ask Me Anything’

September 8, 2016 / By Promises Behavioral Health / Substance Abuse

Movies and TV portray alcohol and drug use as synonymous with college. Little wonder then that incoming students often expect (and their parents fear) that their educational experience will be one big party.

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