Our Favorite Websites...lots of great info!
Cathy Taughinbaugh - Helping Parents Find Peace - This is an extraordinary resource chocked full of information, articles, resources and general support for families dealing with substance use disorder.
The William White Papers - this is a scholarly look at all things related to substance use disorders and recovery. This website is filled with writings that will inform and inspire you!
The Partnership to End Addiction (formerly The Partnership for Drugfree.org)- this is a website that is filled with resources for families including access to live chat, parent coaching and connection to clinicians that can talk to you about concerns related to your loved ones substance use. All of these resources are free of charge. A great site to go to if you have a loved one who you suspect or know is using substances and don't know where to turn. Includes a Helpline staffed by specialists and clinicians you can talk to for support and a FREE Parent Coach Program you can participate in.
The Addiction Prevention Coalition - this website is full of resources in the state of Alabama. Check out their resource tab for treatment options, online options, and other important information!
Addiction Policy Forum - a wealth of information regarding legislative policy related to substance abuse and mental health in addition to resources for families and those impacted by substance use disorders
Faces and Voices of Recovery - an advocacy organization that leads the country in working toward reducing stigma, research, public policy advocacy and family support for those impacted by substance use disorders. They are "dedicated to organizing and mobilizing the over 23 million Americans in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, our families, friends and allies into recovery community organizations and networks, to promote the right and resources to recover through advocacy, education and demonstrating the power and proof of long-term recovery."
Recovery Resource Center - Jefferson County, AL - The Recovery Resource Center is a collaborative initiative dedicated to simplifying that process by providing a central point of information. This website provides good resources for accessing assessments and treatment in the Jefferson County area of Alabama. Excellent overview of the different levels of care and treatment options and modalities.
The Treatment Research Institute is a non-profit organization that conducts research related to the treatment industry. The following link connects you to recent research conducted related to substance abuse treatment specific to families
The Fix - An Online Magazine that chronicles addiction and recovery, is looking to fill an information void for the millions of Americans struggling with substance abuse and other addictions. While much of the site’s content chronicles the culture of addition, The Fix is also working on creating a library of independent reviews of rehabilitation centers. The site now has some 50 reviews about rehab centers and plans to double that by the end of the year. The reviews are based on detailed surveys and interviews of facility alumni, and cover everything from the food and atmosphere to the overall approach.
Our Favorite Books...(more to come!)
Recommended Reading
Our Board of Directors has compiled a list of recommended reading material. This is a list of personal, not professional, recommendations for family or loved ones impacted by the disease of addiction. Keep checking back as we add more!
Beyond Addiction - How Science and Kindness Help People Change - Jeffrey Foote, PHD, Carrie Wilkens, PHD and Nicole Kosanke, PHD with Stephanie Higgs. Leading innovators in progressive addiction treatment outline a science-based program for overcoming addiction-related problems, demonstrating how to effectively use positive reinforcement and motivational and behavioral strategies.
Our Board of Directors has compiled a list of recommended reading material. This is a list of personal, not professional, recommendations for family or loved ones impacted by the disease of addiction. Keep checking back as we add more!
Beyond Addiction - How Science and Kindness Help People Change - Jeffrey Foote, PHD, Carrie Wilkens, PHD and Nicole Kosanke, PHD with Stephanie Higgs. Leading innovators in progressive addiction treatment outline a science-based program for overcoming addiction-related problems, demonstrating how to effectively use positive reinforcement and motivational and behavioral strategies.
The Parent's 20 Minute Guide - helps parents change their child's substance use. Developed by psychologists at the Center for Motivation and Change, the 20 Minute Guide pulls from Motivational Interviewing (MI), CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training), Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to give family members the best tools to help a loved one change their substance use while staying connected and using the power of science and kindness. This guide will help you with such tools as: How to react when your child has been using substances and when he has NOT been using; How to co-parent and collaborate as effectively and smoothly as possible; Getting more of what you want to see from your child and less of what you don't; How to talk to your child so that you are more likely to be heard; How to take care of yourself all along the way.
Tending Dandelions: Honest Meditations for Mothers with Addicted Children - by Sandra Swenson. Mothers of addicted and alcoholic children share a deep connection—one that is rarely understood by anyone who hasn’t experienced a similar path. Sharing our perspectives helps us all grow stronger, together.
“We all need to take a closer look at the things we’ve avoided—the things lurking around in this place where love and addiction meet—so we’re as strong as we can be.”—Sandra Swenson, author of Tending Dandelions
“We all need to take a closer look at the things we’ve avoided—the things lurking around in this place where love and addiction meet—so we’re as strong as we can be.”—Sandra Swenson, author of Tending Dandelions
Clean by David Sheff. A myth-shattering look at drug abuse and addiction treatment, based on cutting-edge research by David Sheff who spent time with scores of scientists, doctors, counselors and addicts and their families, and explored the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science — not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking.
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff. What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff ’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 a.m. phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on Nic. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional roller coaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.
The Joey Song - by Sandra Swenson There can be recovery, even if it doesn't happen within the addict. Sandy lives where love and addiction meet--a place where help enables and hope hurts. When addiction steals her son, Sandy fights for his survival, trying to stay on the right side of an invisible line between helping him to live and helping him to die.
CoDependent No More by Melody Beattie - The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved and most inspirational authors holds the key to understanding codependency and to unlocking its stultifying hold on your life. With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests, Codependent No More is a simple, straightforward, readable map of the perplexing world of codependency-charting the path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness.
Today a Better Way - Families Anonymous’ member-written daily “thought book.” Recently updated to include an interactive Table of Contents and an interactive Index. First published in 1991, revised in 2011, and currently in its 17th hardcover printing.
Courage to Change - One Day at a Time in Alanon II More daily inspiration from a fresh, diverse perspective. Insightful reflections reveal surprisingly simple things that can transform lives.
Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening– by Robert J. Meyers, Brenda L. Wolfe Get Your Loved One Sober describes this multi-faceted program that uses supportive, non-confrontational methods to engage substance abusers into treatment. Called Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), the program uses scientifically validated behavioral principles to reduce the loved one's substance use and to encourage him or her to seek treatment. Equally important, CRAFT also helps loved ones reduce personal stress and introduce meaningful, new sources of satisfaction into their life.Key Features: CRAFT is more effective than other types of interventions.This breakthrough new system is sweeping the recovery field. This is its first introduction to the general public
Hey, Kiddo - by Jarrett J. Kroscoczka (Author) - From Amazon.com: In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.
Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family, reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father.
Hey, Kiddo is a profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.
Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family, reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father.
Hey, Kiddo is a profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the art that helps you survive.
My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease: A Child's View: Living with Addiction - Claudia Black (Author) From Amazon.com: Children who grow up in addicted families usually learn at a very young age that it is not safe for them to openly talk about their family experiences. This updated edition of My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease gives children ages five to twelve the opportunity to work through their feelings of loss, loneliness, fear, and frustration, both verbally and through drawing exercises. Through sharing their thoughts and feelings, children can develop a better understanding of addiction and how it affects their parent(s). Written from a child's point of view, My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease has helped thousands of children and is a springboard for children to understand their own recovery process in a family ravaged by addiction.
Son Down, Son Up: How One Mother Battled Her Son's Addiction, Found Hope, and Survived Paperback – April 15, 2019 From Amazon.com: A BOOK OF HOPE! Is addiction ruining the life of someone you love? Are you exhausted, financially drained, heartbroken, and hopeless? Young Matthew Seals earned good grades, dutifully attended church, respected his parents, excelled at sports, and adored his baby sisters. He had an ideal existence until one careless teenage decision led him from safety to unspeakable suffering as a full-blown heroin addict. In Son Down, Son Up, Matthew’s mother Brenda Seals opens her heart and home life to reveal the hell on earth she lived as the parent of an active addict. She explains her personal agony, how she contributed to Matthew’s self-destruction, and how addiction affected her entire family. Most importantly, she shares how she found HOPE. Brenda’s humble narrative encourages others that addicts can get well and families can heal
Podcasts - there are alot out there but here are a few of our favorites!
This podcast interview series titled "Heart of the Matter", hosted by Elizabeth Vargas, gives guests the opportunity to share their personal, candid stories about addiction. It offers a space to open up about substance use and mental health, to share the ways in which people are shifting their narrative – in their own relationships and across communities – to support the cause of ending addiction in our country.
New episodes are released every other Tuesday, and available here or wherever you get your podcasts.
New episodes are released every other Tuesday, and available here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hosted by David Hampton and Nate Larkin - 98 episodes of inspiration and hope on the road to recovery.
Videos - Lots and Lots out there but here are a few of our favorites!
Dr. Kevin McCauley - Explains the Science of Addiction in "Pleasure Unwoven"
Dr. Nora Volkov - Explains the Science of Addiction in This Video. Dr. Volkov is the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH, NIDA)
"Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong" - a Ted Talk by Johann Hari. This is the video that coined the saying "the opposite of addiction is connection".
Other Resources...
The Addiction Policy Forum has released "The Addiction Series" videos to help us understand what our loved ones are going through when they are in active addiction.
Episode One: “The Hijacker,” learn about how substance use disorders (SUDs) affect tissue function in two main parts of the brain: the limbic system (responsible for basic survival instincts) and the prefrontal cortex (where decision-making and impulse control live).
Episode Two: "The Whirlpools of Risk," explains why only some people who use alcohol and drugs develop a substance use Disorder (SUD).
Episode Three: "Understanding the Severity." Like other chronic illnesses, addiction tends to gets worse over time. There are three levels of severity: mild, moderate and severe - also known as addiction.
Episode Four: Coming soon ...
Episode One: “The Hijacker,” learn about how substance use disorders (SUDs) affect tissue function in two main parts of the brain: the limbic system (responsible for basic survival instincts) and the prefrontal cortex (where decision-making and impulse control live).
Episode Two: "The Whirlpools of Risk," explains why only some people who use alcohol and drugs develop a substance use Disorder (SUD).
Episode Three: "Understanding the Severity." Like other chronic illnesses, addiction tends to gets worse over time. There are three levels of severity: mild, moderate and severe - also known as addiction.
Episode Four: Coming soon ...
Drug Guide - The Partnership for Drug Free maintains an excellent resource with the latest information on all types of drugs. Click on this link to see this helpful, up to date reference.
Help & Hope by Text by the Partnership for Drug Free - a texting tool that will provide you with ongoing support, encouragement and resources while you are dealing with a loved one struggling with a substance use disorder
This online toolkit - compiled by a bipartisan task force, features links for prevention, treatment, recovery and an online course for medicine safety. Multiple links to a variety of resources.
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