How to Avoid Relapse…How to Put a Relapse Prevention Technique Into Action October 20th, 2017 posted by: John Leadem to Addiction Treatment

How to Avoid Relapse Relapse can be identified, intervened on, and prevented A plan for avoiding relapse must begin with a definition of abstinence.  Abstinence is a self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure. Because the regimen is intended to be a conscious act, freely chosen to enhance […]

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How Can Family Help Intervene in Addiction? The Importance of the Intervention Team posted by: John Leadem to Addiction Treatment

How Can Family Help Intervene in Addiction? The family or loved ones of an addict can help by participating in an intervention and get help for themselves. The addict can free-fall to a bottom of severe consequences if he or she is left alone to develop the awareness a person usually requires to identify the need […]

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What is Relapse? What is Relapse Prevention? September 18th, 2017 posted by: John Leadem to Relapse Prevention

What is Relapse? If you have accepted the notion that relapse is a typical and understandable process from an addiction, then you have been cheated The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) defines relapse as “… a return to drug use … [by a person] … who’s trying to stop using drugs… [but who] … […]

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What is Intervention? Practical Uses for Intervention Strategies September 15th, 2017 posted by: John Leadem to Intervention

What Is Intervention? A successful intervention gets help for everyone who needs it! The Mayo Clinic staff [1], using a widely accepted definition, describes addiction intervention to be a carefully planned process that may be done by family and friends, who gather together to confront a loved one about the consequences of addiction and ask […]

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Understanding the Importance of Arousal Templates February 24th, 2012 posted by: Shawn Leadem to Sex Addiction

The way people express their sexuality seems to be as varied and diverse as the cultures that exist throughout the world.  What may be sexually arousing to one may not be arousing to another.  Each of us has an arousal template that dictates what we will find arousing to us.  Moreover, it appears that for […]

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Sexual Addiction Screening Test March 31st, 2010 posted by: Shawn Leadem to Sex Addiction

The Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST-2) developed by Dr. Patrick Carnes, author of Out of the Shadows and Facing the Shadows, is a self assessment tool that can help evaluate the likelihood that a person is suffering with a sexual addiction.  This tool was made available to this site from Dr. Patrick Carnes and can […]

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