Relapse is Never an Accident

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program.” Narcotics Anonymous, Basic Text, p. 76 A reservation is something we set aside for future use. In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and-such happens, we will surely relapse. What event do we expect will be too painful to bear? [...]

Addiction Disease: A Neurological Disorder

Friday, June 26th, 2009

For those who have trouble calling addiction a disease. Addiction is a neurologically based disease. For many years recovery specialists have compared alcoholism or addictions to a physical disease: like diabetes. In reality addictions are more closely related to a neurological disorder like Tourette’s Syndrome* than they are to diabetes. If the problems you suffer [...]