What is Recovery?

Recovery summarizes all the positive benefits to physical, mental, and social health that can happen when alcohol and drug dependent individuals get the help they need. Addiction recovery is a voluntarily maintained lifestyle characterized by sobriety, personal health, and citizenship. Recovery emphasizes the importance of engaging in social roles to reinforce the need for recovering addicts to give back to their community and society.

Recovery and Me - a website devoted to the local recovery community.

Recovery and Me facebook - an online social network to connect the worldwide recovery community.

Recovery for Addicts

Counseling and Therapy for Addicts

Drug and alcohol addictions are also physical dependencies, as the individual has a psychological as well as physical addiction to a chemical substance. The substance is often a form of escape for the user. Individuals who have become addicted to substances often have numerous underlying issues they are unable to deal with, hence the need to escape. Counseling is only one part, albeit a critical part, of the treatment for drug addiction since those issues beneath the surface must be addressed. Simply treating the physical addiction will usually not help the substance addict because those underlying hurts would be unresolved and compel the individual to seek escape again. Substance abuse is best treated as a joint process of counseling and medical treatment.

Twelve-Step Meetings

Alcoholics Anonymous 610-373-6500; Meeting Schedule
Cocaine Anonymous 800-482-0983; Meeting Schedule
Gamblers Anonymous 215-468-1991; Meeting Schedule
Narcotics Anonymous 610-374-5944; Meeting Schedule

Recovery for Family and Friends of Addicts

Counseling and Therapy for Families and Friends

Family therapy and counseling in substance abuse treatment can help by using the family's strengths and resources to find ways for the person who abuses alcohol or drugs to live without substances of abuse and to ameliorate the impact of chemical dependency on both the patient and the family. Family therapy can help families become aware of their own needs and aid in the goal of keeping substance abuse from moving from one generation to another.

Twelve-Step Meetings for Family and Friends

Al-Anon 610-373-5237; Meeting Schedule
Alateen 610-373-5237; Meeting Schedule

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