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 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....
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 [...]
Clay Hightower, LMSW “It works if you work it.”These are words that many have either heard for themselves at a 12-step meeting or have had someone else tell them about the 12-step program. However, I know that I have met countless individuals in my work that have stated that it did not work [...]
Most people get better. They just do not get better in the way we think they should. It can be very frightening and overwhelming if you or someone you love has a problem with the use of alcohol or drugs. There is reason for hope, most people do recover. The often-quoted studies of negative outcomes such as jails, institutions or death are extremely unlikely and they are not the usual results of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). This does not mean your situation is not serious and important. It also does not mean that those drastic outcomes could never happen to you or someone you care about. However, there is cause for hope if we can understand what is actually happening and determine the best course of treatment.
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 [...]
progress not perfection does not equal permission Most people get better. They just don’t get better in the way we think they should. - The Natural History of Recovery
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 [...]
“When did this happen?” “Have they always felt this way?” “Do they know what I believe in and feel?”
