Mental Health Archives - Allies in Recovery

Her Partner is Not Improving from Substance Use Disorder. Is There an Underlying Mental Health Condition?

One of our AlliesinRecovery.net members as been artfully following the CRAFT principles and yet her loved one is not showing signs of improvement. Eng…

Dominique Simon March 17, 2023

Debunked in 3 ½ Minutes: Harmful Myths About Family and Recovery

It can’t be said too often: substance use disorder is a disease. Yet unlike nearly all other diseases, it’s still often treated as a moral failure…

Leah.Germinara March 15, 2023

Now He’s Abusing His ADHD Medication. What to do?

Her long-time partner added a new drug to the usual mix of cannabis and alcohol: now he's got a prescription for ADHD meds and is blowing through a mo…

Dominique Simon February 24, 2023

Mental Health: Just How Much Have We Got Wrong?

Everyone knows that great ideas can spread. But bad ones can also “hang around so long that you can forget you have the option of questioning them.�…

rredick February 1, 2023

New National Report on SUD and Mental Health in the U.S. Includes Some Grim Statistics

In 2021, only 6% of people in the U.S. struggling with substance use disorder received any treatment, according to this year’s SAMHSA report. That i…

rredick January 30, 2023

Stigma: Changing the Story

Stigma is a story someone makes up about a situation. CRAFT provides a framework, and helps you take the story apart and change it, Consciously addres…

Leah.Germinara January 4, 2023

At-Home, Computerized CBT Reduces Drug Use as Much as CBT Delivered in a Clinical Setting, Study Finds

Self-administering CBT via a computer training program helps as many people reduce their drug use as CBT delivered in person by a clinician, according…

rredick December 28, 2022

Stigma: Changing the Story

Stigma is a story someone makes up about a situation. CRAFT provides a framework, and helps you take the story apart and change it, Consciously addres…

jamesheflin December 26, 2022

Faith, CRAFT & Recovery – Taking Separate Paths

There are times when we need space and separation. It’s not abandonment. It isn’t necessarily permanent, and it’s not selfish…it’s healthy.…

annieunhooked December 26, 2022

Trauma, Community, and Individualism: Dr Bessel van der Kolk on Healing Trauma, Part III

As one of the world’s leading researchers and thinkers on trauma, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk knows better than to offer solutions to this most intricat…

rredick December 19, 2022