At the Addiction Research Foundation, we conducted an online survey that was pushed through social media. We at this point had close to 1000 respondents. Of these respondents close to 2/3s were women. While women were more likely to respond to an online survey they were less likely to attend 12 step meetings; 61 percent [...]
We are very excited to announce that Pam Moore's new book Unhook and Live Free will be coming soon. We are looking at an early fall release date. You can unhook and live free. This book is a brilliant guide to understanding yourself and how to unhook from negative thoughts, beliefs and feelings. The [...]
C3 At this time Refuge Recovery is meeting twice a week Smart Recovery is meeting once a week, a weekly yoga class, a professional’s meditation and sharing group called EMIT is provided once a month and various other workshops have been provided in this space. In October at the grand opening the founder [...]
NOAH LEVINE WORKSHOP Monday September 28th from 8 am until 12 pm at THE EDGE OF CHAOS SPONSERED BY ADDICTION RESEARCH FOUNDATION Refuge Recovery is a mindfulness-based addiction treatment program that utilizes Buddhist philosophy as the cornerstone of the curriculum. Drawing inspiration from the core teachings of the Four Noble Truths, emphasis is placed [...]
My name is Pam and I am an alcoholic. My dad’s name is Bill and he has Alzheimer’s. I always had a difficult relationship with him. As with any disease walking the path is never easy. And I mean that for both of our diseases. My dad can not communicate much any more. Mostly when [...]
My name is Pam and I am an alcoholic. I got sober September 9, 1987. Since that time I have seen addiction treatment change and not change. The main focus of most treatment is still to use the 12 step model of recovery. It is the way I was taught to stay sober and I [...]
One of the surveys at the Addiction Research Foundation called the Addiction Change Survey has been promoteprimarily through social media. It Childhood Experiences 39 percent of all women reported having been abused as a child compared to 26 percent of men. More than three out of five women (65%) reported childhood emotional abuse, compared to [...]
Here is some information from the most recent data set of the on line addiction research survey as of March 2015. As we have said, this data is very preliminary and we are not ready to start making any statements about what it might mean. However, we still find some of this to be very [...]
There is general agreement that follow up study of patients with substance use disorders is difficult. Longitudinal drug addiction research with any diverse population is hard, but this seems to present unique challenges. So many of the questions about longer term outcomes remain unanswered. Almost all of the published studies that are available are on [...]
by John Lee Editor No matter who you are or where you live – you will experience hard times. Loved ones will die, jobs will be lost and marriages will crumble and whether you’re ready for it or not, at some point in the future, difficult times are on the way. But though you can’t [...]
