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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the granddaddy of mutual help groups for alcohol addiction. Founded in 1935, AA has helped millions of people in the U.S. and around the world achieve sobriety and overcome the damage caused by alcoholism to their lives and relationships. AA has also inspired many offshoots, including Narcotics Anonymous, Sex Addicts Anonymous […]
The benefits of exercise are well known and well accepted. A mountain of evidence shows that physical activity improves heart and circulatory health, strengthens muscles and boosts the mood. Exercise therapy also helps prevent some of the signs of aging, from warding off cognitive declines to boosting bone health. Exercise Therapy and Its Benefits Exercise […]
Relapse is, for many people, a part of living in recovery from addiction. The chronic nature of addictive disease means that the threat of relapse is always there. Relapse can be terrifying. It can make you feel ashamed and angry. But it’s important to know that if you have relapsed, it doesn’t mean that all […]
To really understand what it’s like to deal with the daily injections and skin pricks that come with Type 1 diabetes, or how it feels to experience the world with autism or depression, it helps to have walked a mile in that person’s shoes. The same is true for addiction. At Bluff, recovery counselors draw […]
Super Bowl Sunday is one of the most-watched sporting events of the year, a day when millions of Americans get comfy on the couch, break out the nachos and spend the day cheering (or jeering) the action on the screen. The big game also means Super Bowl parties. Whether the gathering is in someone’s home […]
Relapse in the treatment of alcoholism is common—but not inevitable—for several reasons, including post-acute withdrawal symptoms, stress, and the fact that recovery programs are voluntary, and most importantly because it is easy to forget that addiction is a fatal disease. Post-Acute Withdrawal When we stop using drugs or alcohol, we enter an acute withdrawal phase of withdrawal, the […]
Certain circumstances, including sights, sounds, tastes, and smells, can trigger our senses and our memory banks to tap into the files in our past and recall those incidences where drugs were used to make us feel a certain way. Enormous happiness, elation, celebration, devastating sadness, isolation and loneliness, anger, and exhaustion—these can trigger our memories […]
