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Wake Up Early
Be an early riser! I’m a big fan of waking at 5am and spending time working on myself before I do anything else. Yes, it can sometimes be pretty difficult (especially in the winter months), but it’s...
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Tell the People You Love You Love Them!
You need to tell the people in your life that you love them. If you’re trying to follow our last goal to learn a new language, but have yet to decide which one, you might find the language you love by...
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The 5 Stages of Change
The 5 Stages of Change — Addiction will take control of a person’s life in many unhealthy ways. But once sufficiently motivated, people can and do change. It may not happen overnight. Rather, change...
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What Is Recovery?
Who can better explain what recovery actually is (and how to achieve it) than someone who is actually in recovery? This infographic represents thousands of people in recovery. The data is culled from a...
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Self-Trust Is Essential To Recovery
For decades the National Institute on Drug Abuse has largely treated addiction as “a chronic brain disease because drugs change the brain; they change its structure and how it works.” Marc Lewis, a...
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Battles with addiction can rattle or wreck a family. This podcast explores what getting past drug and alcohol addiction means for one girl’s family. If you or a loved one is struggling with...
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How You Can Help Someone Who Is Addicted
What’s the worst nightmare for family+friends of people with drug addictions? It’s watching the downward spiral, the medical crisis and maybe even the death of an addict that they couldn’t save. And...
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10 Ways to Keep Your Drinking in Check
Millions of Americans engage in risky drinking behaviors that jeopardize their health, relationships, productivity, and general well-being. Nationwide, nearly one in 13 people over the age of 12 has a...
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Making the Big Change
According to neuroscientist David Eagleman, “Brains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. It doesn’t matter whether consciousness is involved in the decision...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Recovery
When was the last time you truly felt motivated? Motivation can be elusive. It can be fleeting. Too often, it can get lost in the swirl of addiction. Staying motivated in recovery can be a challenge....
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Understanding Addiction
Understanding addiction — this comic depicts how drugs and other stimuli hijack dopamine signaling in the brain, causing changes that can lead to addiction. Score Addicaid
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Am I a Functioning Alcoholic?
More than 30 percent of American adults have abused alcohol or suffered from alcoholism at some point in their lives, and few have received treatment, according to the National Institute of Alcohol...
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Nurturing Self-Compassion
When used as an addiction recovery tool, self-compassion has shown to help people overcome cravings, deal with the stresses of early recovery, and better manage their emotions. It involves being...
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Download the Addicaid App!
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Launch your recovery! Take charge of your addiction! Start your journey (or continue it) by downloading Addicaid for Android, iPhone + iPad. App Store (iOS) +...
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Anatomy of Opioid Addiction
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Opioids have been around a long time. The first recorded reference to opioid use is from 5,000 years ago. It’s a picture of the opium poppy and the words “the joy...
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Why Some Become Addicts
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support For decades, researchers have been struggling to identify the biological and environmental risk factors that can lead to addiction to alcohol and other drugs....
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What Is Relapse?
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Relapse is a cardinal feature of addiction, and one of the most painful. Most people who struggle with addiction will have one or more relapses – the return to...
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This Podcast on Addiction Really Hits Home
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support A new episode of Radiolab takes a sober look at the throbbing, aching, craving desire states that return us (again and again) to the object of our addictions… and...
View ArticleAddicaid Wins Next Big Brand at Social Media Week
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support Which brands will define our world in 2024? Companies like Warby Parker and Toms have shown the world that building a strong brand is essential to forging...
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Lapse vs. Relapse: What’s the difference?
Addicaid - Addiction Recovery Support A common misconception in the world of recovery is the misuse of the common words “lapse” and “relapse”. A lapse is considered a single episode, and not severely...
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