Lessons by our Executive Director Steve Moore
Steve Moore talks about how there is a sales team in our mind selling a person on using despite negative consequences and what to do to counter them https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLbURGZaro8
Pam and Steve Moore present their research at NAADAC 2023
Pam and Steve were honored to do a poster presentation of The Star Matrix Assessment System and conduct a book signing of their book Natural Pathways of Recovery at NAADAC (National Association for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors). They learned and shared and received incredibly positive feedback on the work they had done on their research [...]
Steve and Pam Moore presenting their research on the Star Matrix Assessment Process in Denver at NAADC
Steve and Pam are excited to be presenting about The Star Matrix Assessment System they developed through their research with The Addiction Research Foundation in Denver at The National Association of Addiction Professionals in Denver next week. They have worked on this research for the last 20 years and are excited to present their results to their collogues in the field of substance use disorders....
Help Us Help Others
Would be willing to help us improve assessment and treatment for those with Substance Use Disorders by filling out this survey? We are working on the idea there is an solution but that there are many paths. We are trying to get input from wide variety of individuals to help us understand what different paths to recovery [...]
The Natural History of Addiction – coming soon – Based on Research from Addiction Research Foundation
A plan is ever changing so accountability must be ever changing also. What works for a person the first year will not work in year two. Likewise what worked in year two will not work in year three and so on. This will go on for the rest of our lives. We will always be [...]
Is This Normal?
Is this normal? Am I crazy?I hear some form of these questions almost every day.Over the years, I have answered in various lighthearted ways that were mostly intended to sooth and encourage.But lately I have been thinking about the question more deeply and more personally.What is normal and considered to be mentally healthy? To compete [...]
Stop Sending People to AA
Stop Sending People to AA It’s easy to understand why it happened. For the first time, there seemed to be a solution for a seemingly hopeless condition (alcoholism). There were many of us whose lives were saved and there just wasn’t another plan that offered any real hope. Punishment and incarceration had not worked. At [...]
Boundaries Part IV By Clay Hightower, LSMW
“When did this happen?” “Have they always felt this way?” “Do they know what I believe in and feel?”