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LCDC, Addiction Expert and CEO of The Right Step and Spirit Lodge
George Joseph is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor who began his career in 1983. George is the CEO of The Right Step, which has in-patient and out-patient facilities specializing in family recovery. In 2000, he won the highest honor given to an addiction counselor in the US, the 2000 Lora Roe Memorial Counselor of the Year, awarded by the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors.
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Why is forgiveness important to achieve sobriety?
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"You can conquer others with power, but it takes true strength to conquer yourself." – Lao Tzu, Taoist philosopher
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Honesty is the primary component of recovery. We must be thoroughly honest with ourselves and with others before real change can be made. Step Six of Alcoholics Anonymous says: “We’re...
I am sometimes amused when people being treated for drug or alcohol addiction tell me that they don’t want to take medicine to help them through the recovery process.
If they...
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It is often said those who begin to actively participate in addiction, whatever it may be, alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling, sex addiction or any other type of compulsive behavior, stop...
“You say you can’t pay attention, it’s getting pretty rough, you feel a little down, now, and you can’t get it up,
They got a pill for that, They got a pill for that, They got...
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Substance abuse is one of our nation’s largest public health problems. It costs our society billions of dollars every year and claims unnecessary lives. Most troubling is that addiction is a young...
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