By Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Meet The Editorial Team Published: April 29, 2022 Updated: May 31, 2022 THE TWELVE-STEP PROGRAM: STEP ELEVEN STEP ELEVEN “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and…
By Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Meet The Editorial Team Published: April 27, 2022 Updated: April 27, 2023 Attending an addiction treatment center can be very expensive if you do not have adequate health insurance to cover some of the costs. Fortunately, most major insurance companies provide substance abuse and mental health…
By Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Meet The Editorial Team Published: April 26, 2022 Updated: June 26, 2023 A Vivitrol treatment program is very beneficial in helping men and women get through their withdrawal symptoms with a significant reduction in relapsing. Vivitrol treatment is part of a medication-assisted treatment program that coincides…
By Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Meet The Editorial Team Published: April 26, 2022 Updated: May 10, 2022 STEP TEN “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.” We have all been, at one point or another, in a situation in which we said something insensitive or…
By Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Meet The Editorial Team Published: April 25, 2022 Updated: June 26, 2023 Getting through withdrawals alone can be a dangerous prospect if you are not careful. Addiction withdrawal symptoms can create painful physical side effects and powerful cravings that are near impossible to resist. Suboxone treatment…
By Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Meet The Editorial Team Published: April 22, 2022 Updated: November 4, 2022 Colorado continues to see increasing numbers of addiction rates and overdose deaths year after year. Between April 2020 and April 2021, over 100,000 men and women died from a drug overdose in the U.S.…
By Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Meet The Editorial Team Published: April 22, 2022 Updated: May 10, 2022 STEP NINE “Make direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” As I had mentioned in my previous blog post on step eight, step nine…
By Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Meet The Editorial Team Published: April 19, 2022 Updated: April 14, 2022 STEP EIGHT “Make a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” Have you ever seen the television sitcom My Name is Earl? In this show,…
By Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Meet The Editorial Team Published: April 13, 2022 Updated: April 13, 2022 STEP SEVEN “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.” The last few steps of the twelve-step program have largely been focused on self-reflection. We took a personal moral inventory of who we truly are…
By Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Colorado Medication Assisted Recovery Meet The Editorial Team Published: April 12, 2022 Updated: April 12, 2022 STEP SIX “We are entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” Now that we have taken a personal moral inventory in step four and admitted our flaws to a trusted…