Stick to Your Guns!
Dear help4t, Since you last wrote in, your daughter lost her job and is now couch hopping. Her ex-boyfriend, a drug user, is back in her life. Your ho…
Author: Dominique Simon
Dominique launched Allies in Recovery in 2003. Her work has been featured on HBO and NPR. She is a facilitator and a trained speaker on issues of addiction and the family. She has worked extensively developing and evaluating federally-funded substance abuse programs for organizations and clinics throughout Massachusetts and New York. With an interest in recovery and substance abuse that spans 20 years, she sees a huge need to help families develop the skills to help a loved one recover fully in a supportive, whole, and lasting way in their families and in their communities. Her mission is to have Allies in Recovery fill that gap.
She’s on a Binge – and I’m Flipping Out
AiR member help4t wrote in and shared her distress about her daughter's bingeing ..."We have had a very bad couple of weeks. M…
I’m Leaving the Country, But I Want to Help Her…
AiR member iloveher is deeply concerned for a girlfriend dealing with cocaine and alcohol abuse, personal trauma, combined with mental healt…
He Lives Next Door But He Might As Well Be Out of State
AiR member esta4 is wondering how to better help her alcohol-dependent son, who lives next door and keeps his distance. Dominique Simon-Levine lo…
The “Roll Up Your Sleeves” Guide to Assisting in Recovery
Times are changing fast in the fields of addiction, treatment and recovery. As the family of an addicted Loved One, navigating the new trends can be t…
He’s Far Away … But Is He Out of Reach?
What we’ve laid out here is what you can do. You are prepared and you are supportive. You are doing what you can to keep yourself calm. You don&…
What If He Loses the Car? How We Inadvertently Enable
A central question to ask yourself is this: is the car supporting non-use, by keeping your loved one working, or has it become an important source of …
My Son is an Adult, Living on His Own
Enable treatment. This is about closing the gap between active use and recovery. Many people with addiction cannot, or will not, research, locate, cal…
He Wants to Go Off Methadone Alone
AiR member mom101 is concerned about her son who wants to go off methadone on his own. Dominique Simon-Levine addresses this dilemma, discusses t…
Why You Should Reward Your Loved One
Everyone who had an addiction problem and managed to stop, started out by putting hours of non-using together to equal ONE DAY. What made that day so …