Resources
Family Addiction Support Groups:
Al-Anon Family Groups (12-Step Based)
Families Anonymous (12-Step Based)
Adult Children of Alcoholics (12-Step Based)
Nar-Anon (12-Step Based)
SMART Recovery Family & Friends (CRAFT-Basd)
Addiction Recovery Support Groups:
Alcoholics Anonymous (12-Step Based)
Narcotics Anonymous (12-Step Based)
SMART Recovery (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Based)
Books:
Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change (Re: Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Address Addiction)
It Takes a Family (Re: Structured Family Recovery)
‘It Will Never Happen to Me!’ Children of Alcoholics: As Youngsters – Adolescents – Adults (Re: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Home)
Rehab Works! (Guide for Parents, Along with an Outline of the Process of Change Required for Recovery)
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (Guide to Codependency & Recovery)
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Explanation of Addiction as a Disease and Insights into Genetic and Environmental Factors)
Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment – and How to Get Help That Works (Re: How the Unregulated Treatment Industry Works)
DVDs:
Pleasure Unwoven: An Explanation of the Brain Disease of Addiction (Documentary on the Medical Science on Addiction)
The Anonymous People (Documentary on the Addiction Recovery Movement)
Other Recovery Resources:
Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT)
Faces and Voices of Recovery (Advocacy and Resource Directory)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Addiction Education Society (Advocacy and Education)
American Society of Addiction Medicine
National Association for Children of Alcoholics (Information and Resources for Professional, and Families and Friends)
Association of Recovery in Higher Education
Association of Recovery Schools (Recovery High Schools)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
NIDA: Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment
NIDA: Elements of Comprehensive Drug Addiction Treatment
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health
TED Talk: Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong – Johann Hari
National Alliance for Recovery Residences (Certified Recovery Housing)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800-273-8255)
National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers
Association of Intervention Specialists
Free Meditation Apps:
Insight Timer (Free meditation app containing a meditation timer and hundreds of thousands of free guided meditations)
1 Giant Mind (Free meditation app with 12-day training on vedic meditation)
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