Recovery Academy News
Interventions: Don’t Love them to Death, Get Help
Intervention is a highly effective way to get someone into addiction treatment. When it’s led by a professional interventionist, that is. Plenty of people try on their own to convince the addicted person to stop using and go to treatment. …
Interventions Are Kinder Than Most People Think
By: Drew Horowitz, MA, LADC, LPCC, CIP I’m frequently asked, “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever seen at an intervention?” or “Have you ever had a person hit you during an intervention?” These questions baffle me, yet they reveal how …
What is a Relapse?
By Roger P. Watts, PhD, LADC, LSW A “relapse” is a gradual return to behaviors and attitudes that eventually leads to picking up alcohol and drug use again after a period of sustained abstinence. Now, that’s an abstract and somewhat ...Data shows Hennepin County is no longer randomly drug testing criminal defendants
The pandemic has effectively ended random drug testing on hundreds of people in the criminal justice system in Hennepin County. Read the whole story at ABC Eyewitness News KSTP.COM
A Letter From Our Founder, Drew Horowitz
Dear friends and colleagues, I’ve been on the front lines of COVID-19 since its early days, not as a physician or nurse but as a clinical interventionist attempting to assist those deep in the throes of addiction. I’ve been entrenched …
Physical Health is an Important Part of Self Care
Self care is one of the key factors in maintaining successful recovery from addictions. When we talk about self care, we often speak in terms of a “whole-person” approach, meaning mind, body and spirit. Through recovery support groups, those who …
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