Can You Spare 5 Minutes?

Addiction, Recovery, Resources

Got 5 minutes? Here’s a great, short video from Just Five about 4 ways to help someone you care about who is struggling with drugs and/or alcohol: get professional medical help seek trustworthy information and solid facts get support from knowledgeable resources...

How Does Addiction Work in the Body and Brain?

Addiction, Resources

Is someone in your life struggling with substance abuse? If it’s not a disease you have, it may be hard to understand: Why does she do it when everything else in her life seems to be going well? Won’t his horrible consequences make him stop? He’s...

Family Systems Therapy & Recovery

Addiction, Recovery, Resources

If you think about it for a minute, it’s probably easy to see that family is so important as an influence on drug and/or alcohol misuse and recovery. The impact can be positive or negative, healthy or harmful. There may be nothing more powerful than family in...

Support Groups for Families and Loved Ones

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At Recovery Navigators we believe that a critical part of family recovery is fellowship with and support from people with similar problems. Few experiences in recovery are as valuable as hearing from someone else a story that sounds like yours. There are many...

How Do I Help If They Don’t Want Sobriety?

Addiction, Recovery

The better question might be, “Who do I help if they don’t want sobriety?” In the last post we discussed someone who was ready and willing to get sober. What if the person I care about isn’t ready yet? Here’s the blunt truth: You can’t make them stop and neither can...