Ten Things to Do When a Friend or Loved One Relapses

October 29th, 2015 | Posted by Rob Weiss in Addiction & Recovery - (Comments Off on Ten Things to Do When a Friend or Loved One Relapses)
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Yesterday a good friend in a nearby city, Edward, sober from alcohol and drugs for well over a decade, received a flurry of text messages about an acquaintance of his, a recovering addict in her early 40s, who’d just gone into the hospital. At first the cause of this hospitalization was somewhat unclear, but as …
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The Use of Psychodrama in Dealing With Grief and Addiction-Related Loss and Trauma

March 27th, 2014 | Posted by Tian Dayton in Addiction | Addiction & Recovery | Grief | Therapy | Trauma - (Comments Off on The Use of Psychodrama in Dealing With Grief and Addiction-Related Loss and Trauma)

ABSTRACT. This article is an adaptation of a chapter from the author’s 2005 book, The Living Stage: A Step by Step Guide to Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Experiential Group Therapy. The author proposes the use of psychodrama to help clients in recovery who are dealing with complicated grief issues associated with  addiction and addition related trauma. …
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