The Many Pathways To Recovery

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The Many Pathways To Recovery

• Victor S. Braatz-ADS
• Executive Director
• Recovery Network Inc.
• Many thanks to those professionals who are
  integrating Recovery Oriented Systems of Care
  into our health model. Particularly Jack G. Jesse
  Ph.D. and William White, MA, whos research and
  practices were critical in the development of
  this presemtation.

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Roads to Recovery (coined by Bill Wilson)

• Roads to Recovery- Bill Wilson, 1944
• The roads to recovery are many and that the
  resolution of alcoholism by any method should be
  a cause for celebration by A.A. members

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Many Pathways to RecoveryPart 1- Mutual Aid
Groups

• Current Mutual Aid Groups, with informational
  web-sites
• Online supports and information
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Mutual Aid Groups

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Mutual Aid Groups

• Alcoholics Anonymous- www.aa.org
• Narcotics Anonymous- www.NA.org
• Al-Anon- www.ola.is.org
• Other As
• Women for Sobriety- www.womenfor sobriety.org
• Rational Recovery- www.rational.org

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Mutual Aid Groups (continued)

• SMART Recovery Self-Management and Recovery
  Training- www.smartrecovery.org
• White Bison- www.whitebison.org
• HAMS- Harm Reduction Abstinece and Moderation
  Support- http//hamsnetwork.org
• S.O.S. Secular Organization for Sobriety-
  www.sossobriety.org

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Mutual Aid Groups (continued)

• Life Ring- www.unhooked.com
• Celebrate Recovery- www.celebraterecovery.com
• HAHA- Health and Healing Advocate's
  www.recoverynetworkmi.org

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Online Support Resources

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-
  www.hhs.gov
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health
  Administration(SAMHSA)- www.samhsa.gov
• National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  www.drugabuse.gov
• National Council on Problem Gambling-
  www.ncpgambling.org

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Online Support Resources (continued)

• 24/7 Help Yourself- www.24/7helpyourself.com
• Sober Recovery- www.soberrecovery.com
• Cyber Recovery- www.cyberrecovery.net
• Addiction Tribe- www.addictiontribe.net
• Daily Strength- www.dailystrenght.org
• National Alliance on Mental Illness-www.nami.org

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Online Support Resources (continued)

• Anxiety Tribe- www.anxietytribe.com
• MD Junction- www.mdjunction.com
• Look to the web for education, help and resources

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Benefits of Mutual Aid Groups

• Group Interaction common issues and concerns
• Networking share interest
• Practical Knowledge mentoring from others
• Cost Effectiveness cost is minimal

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Benefits of Mutual Aid Groups (continued)

• Recognition awareness of maladaptive thoughts
• Empowerment help build self-actualization
• Community develop sense of belonging

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Benefits of Mutual Aid Groups (continued)

• Compliance higher completion ratio
• Acceptance being accepted by a group of people
  who share similar issues can be both curative and
  permanent

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Benefits of Mutual Aid Groups (continued)

• Overall Effectiveness Although there is not
  enough cumulative data on mutual aid groups to
  measure their long term success rates, in the
  short term people will
• 1. develop a better understanding of their
  drug/alcohol issues
• 2. learn from positive role models
• 3. Better comply with treatment and sanctions
• 4. Better understand the impact their use caused
  on relationships, family, friends, employers and
  society

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Disadvantages of Mutual Aid Groups

• Dependence lack of self-actualization
• Rigid and Dogmatic many groups have become
  altruistic in their approach and lack tolerance
  for other groups
• Coercion when people are not ready to change,
  they generally will not

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Disadvantages of Mutual Aid Groups (continued)

• Predators 13th step
• Mental Health Disorders many co-occuring mental
  disorders result in the person being looked on as
  non-compliant

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U.S. History of Recovery/Mutual AID

• 1. The colorful history of the Recovery/Mutual
  aid movement in the United States
• 2. A look a cultural influences along the way

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U.S. History of Recovery/Mutual AID(continued)

• 1750-Early 1800s native Americans formed
  sobriety (Circles)
• 1784 Dr. Benjamin Rush. Dr. Rushs writings mark
  the beginning of the American temperance movement
• 1810 Rush calls for creation of Sober Houses
  for the care of the confirmed drunkard

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U.S. History of Recovery/Mutual Aid (continued)

• 1830 Dr. Samuel Woodward calls for the creation
  of inebriated asylums.
• 1842 The Washington Total Abstinence Movement,
  beginning of evangelical mutual aid
• 1845 Frederick Douglass promotes temperance
  among African American people

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U.S. History of Recovery/Mutual Aid (continued)

• 1849 Swedish physician Magnus Hass describes a
  disease resulting form chronic alcohol
  consumption. He christens it Alcoholismus
  chronicus. Thus the term alcoholism
• 1864 The first Inebriate Asylum is opened in New
  York State

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U.S. History of Recovery/Mutual Aid (continued)

• 1867 The Martha Washington Home opens in
  Chicago. The first institution specializing in
  the treatment of Women
• 1872 Walter Street Mission in New York City,
  beginning of the urban mission movement, carried
  on today by the Salvation Army
• 1880 Sigmund Freud recommends Cocaine be used in
  the treatment of alcohol and opiate addiction

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U.S. History of Recovery/Mutual Aid (continued)

• 1893-1933 Anti-Saloon League, marked the
  beginning of the prohibitionist movement.
  Disappeared soon after the 18th amendment was
  repealed in 1933
• 1908-1940 Oxford Group (First Century Christian
  Fellowship) founded by Lutheran minister Frank
  Buchman. Bill Wilson was introduced to the group
  by his friend Ebby T. in 1934

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U.S. History of Recovery/Mutual Aid (continued)

• 1935 Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith following
  many of the principles of the Oxford Group
  founded Alcoholics Anonymous in June
• 1976 Women for Sobriety, founded by Dr. Jean
  Kirkpatrick. New Life program consist of 13
  acceptance statements
• 1985 Secular Organization for Sobriety (SOS)
  founded by Jim Christopher Sobriety Priority

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U.S. History of Recovery/Mutual Aid (continued)

• 1986 Rational Recovery founded by Jack Trimpey.
  Addictive Voice Recognition Technique (AVRT)
• 1988 White Bison founded by Don Coyhis, native
  american based Wellbriety
• 1990 Celebrate Recovery founded by Pastor Jack
  Baker, follow 8 guiding principles

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U.S. History of Recovery/Mutual Aid (continued)

• 1992 SMART Recovery, Self-Management and
  Recovery Training, uses a four-point approach
• 1994 Moderation Management founded by Audrey
  Kishline. Behavioral change program
• 1999 LifeRing, split from S.O.S. follows the
  three Ss Sobriety, Secularity, Self-Help

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U.S. History of Recovery/Mutual Aid

• 2007 HAMS (Harm Reduction, Abstinence and
  Moderation Support) founded by Kenneth Anderson

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Many Pathways to RecoveryPart 3-Types of Recovery

• Review different recovery models
• Discuss effects of different recovery models

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Types of Recovery

• Abstinence-based Recovery Resolution by complete
  cessation
• Affiliated or Assisted Recovery Use of
  professional treatment, mutual aid groups and
  sanctions

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Types of Recovery(continued)

• Bicultural Style of recovery
• Complete Recovery advance state of wellness also
  known as transcendence
• Cultural Recovery return to ancestral traditions

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Types of Recovery(continued)

• Faith-Based Recovery mutual support from the
  faith based community
• Family Recovery Individual recovery of family
  members precede the recovery of the family as a
  unit

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Types of Recovery(continued)

• Harm Reduction (as a stage of recovery)
• High Bottom Recovery lack of economic or social
  losses due to use
• Low Bottom Recovery usually later stage of
  addition, great losses and negative consequences

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Types of Recovery(continued)

• Solo Recovery self-initiated and self-managed
  without professional treatment or mutual aid
• Medication-assisted Recovery use of
  pharmaceuticals for detoxification,
  stabilization, adhesives and anti-craving

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Types of Recovery(continued)

• Moderated Recovery resolution of use,
  recognizing AODs exist on a wide continuum of
  severity. Resolution is a less medicalized term
  than recovery.
• Secular Recovery

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Types of Recovery(continued)

• Multiple Pathways of Recovery (Multiple Pathway
  Model) recognizing that there are multiple
  pathways into and out of addiction
• Peer-Based Recovery
• 1. Recovery Oriented Systems of Care
• 2. Recovery Mentors- trained peer helpers
• 3. Recovery Community Organizations
• 4. Building Recovery Capital

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Types of Recovery(continued)

• Holistic Recovery dealing with the whole person,
  mind, body and spirit.
• 1. Mindfulness
• 2. Health, Nutrition and Exercise
• 3. Smoking cessation
• 4. Meditation
• 5. Auricular acupuncture
• 6. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

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Thank You