The Sunlight of the Spirit: Help for Families in Addiction Recovery in Pittsburgh & Southwestern Pennsylvania. 412-429-1047

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Additional Resources to Help You if You are in a Relationship with a Substance Abuser

Drug and Alcohol Treatment | Family Counseling | Family Recovery
Recovery Products | Twelve Step Recovery | Other Links

Drug and Alcohol Treatment

The Betty Ford Center: www.bettyfordcenter.org

This web site offers a variety of online information and programs for inpatient and outpatient treatment of alcohol and drug addiction.

Gateway Rehabilitation Center: www.gatewayrehab.org

Gateway's mission is to enable people affected by or at risk of addictive diseases and other mental and emotional disorders to lead healthy and productive lives through prevention, education, treatment, and research.

Greenbriar Treatment Center: www.greenbriar.net

Greenbriar Treatment Center offers help and hope to those suffering from addiction, and support for the people who love them. Greenbriar has a full continuum of care to assist the chemically dependent individual on the road to recovery through individualized treatment. A free assessment by an admissions therapist will help determine the most appropriate level of care in which to begin the treatment process. Specific criteria are established for each program and level of care, and clients may be moved throughout the continuum as progress dictates.

Hazelden Foundation: www.hazelden.org

For individuals, families, and communities struggling with addiction to alcohol and other drugs, Hazelden (a nonprofit organization) helps people transform their lives by providing the highest quality treatment and continuing care services, education, research, and publishing products available today.

P.O.W.E.R. – Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery:
www.power-recovery.com

POWER’s mission is to provide gender-specialized quality treatment & support services to women who are changing their lives through recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs.

Sierra Tucson: www.sierratucson.com

There is a place where pain is met with compassion, fear is met with reassurance, and anger is met with understanding.

Nestled in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson , Arizona , lies a unique treatment center dedicated to the prevention, education, and treatment of addictions and behavioral disorders. Sierra Tucson is more than a drug treatment center, as it is dually licensed to facilitate healing for psychiatric issues as well as many types of addiction and chronic pain. A comprehensive Family Program is included for all patients and their invited family members.

Sierra Tucson provides individualized treatment for the following addictions, mental health issues, and chronic pain:

  • Coexisting Disorders
  • Trauma & Abuse
  • Eating Disorders
  • Sexual Addiction
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Drug and Alcohol Addiction
  • Depression
  • Anxiety and Panic Disorders
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Pain Management

Sober Recovery: www.SoberRecovery.com

The Sober Recovery directory lists hundreds of drug treatment centers, alcohol rehabilitation centers, halfway houses, sober houses, eating disorder clinics, and recovery related web sites. We offer help, referrals and info for heroin, cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, anorexia and bulimia and treatment program options including detox, teen boot camps, wilderness programs and outpatient programs for adults or adolescents.

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Family Counseling

North Hills Youth Ministry Counseling Center: www.nhymcc.org

The North Hills Youth Ministry Counseling Center is a non-denominational community service organization that provides family, marital, individual and group counseling, along with preventive, educational and advocacy services. Our faith-based mission is to help youth and families improve communication and spiritual values within the family system.

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Family Recovery

Caron : www.caron.org

Caron provides an enlightened, caring treatment community in which all those affected by alcoholism or other drug addiction may begin a new life.

Caron has a week-long codependency workshop for anyone who has lived with addiction, dysfunction, neglect or abuse.  Those who have lived with addiction, psychological, physical or emotional dysfunction often times carry wounds that can undermine positive feelings about our relationships and ourselves.  These issues can interfere with our ability to lead healthy and productive lives.

  • Unhealthy relationship patterns due to irrational beliefs learned in our family of origin
  • Distorted self image or low self esteem
  • Rigid boundaries or lack of boundaries
  • Enabling and/or controlling behaviors
  • Feelings of anger, resentment, depression, shame, guilt, sadness and abandonment
  • Loss of spontaneity and joy

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Recovery Products

Journeys of Life: www.journeysoflifeonline.com

Journeys of Life is a comprehensive resource for books, gifts, music, crystals, handcrafted jewelry, feng shui, and Tibetan statuary to empower people along the journey we call life in a comfortable, friendly and service oriented environment.

Recovery Emporium: www.recoveryemporium.com

The Recovery Emporium offers recovery products from coins to posters, at a very reasonable cost.

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Twelve Step Recovery

Al-Anon/Alateen: www.al-anon.org

Al-Anon’s purpose is to help families and friends of alcoholics recover from the effects of living with the problem drinking of a relative or friend. Similarly, Alateen is our recovery program for young people. Alateen groups are sponsored by Al-Anon members.

Alcoholics Anonymous: www.alcoholicsanonymous.org

Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

Codependents Anonymous: www.codependents.org

Codependents Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. The only requirement for membership is a desire for healthy and fulfilling relationships. We gather together to support and share with each other in a journey of self-discovery – learning to love the self. Living the program allows each of us to become increasingly honest with ourselves about our personal histories and our own codependent behaviors.

Gam-Anon: www.gam-anon.org

Gam-Anon is a self-help organization for the spouse, family or close friends of compulsive gamblers. The Gam-Anon group is warmly accepting and it offers the new member identification. Gam-Anon's purposes are three-fold: To learn acceptance and understanding of the gambling illness; to use the program and its problem solving suggestions as aids in rebuilding our lives and upon our own recovery, to give assistance to those who suffer.

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Other Links

The Evidence Based Recovery Foundation, Inc. www.ebrf.org

Monitored-Recovery and Advocacy has been shown to dramatically improve outcomes for drug and alcohol treatment in a variety of settings. The Evidence Based Recovery Foundation was created to employ this method of introducing a program of structure and accountability which gives the individual entering into recovery the greatest chance of success.

Addiction Research and Information: www.addictionsearch.com

Carmen Accetta, Interventionist & Psychotherapist:
Intervention-Pittsburgh.com

 

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