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Cathy Taughinbaugh: How To Overcome Codependency
Have you been told you're codependent on your partner, sibling or child who's struggling with addiction? Or that without strict rules & tough love, you are enabling substance use and keeping your loved one from recovery? Does it feel like you or your family is...
Patrick Doyle Supporting His Son With Addiction
EP 21 Blog Post Patrick Doyle Supporting His Son With Addiction Select 'Watch on YouTube', Subscribe to my YouTube channel, Like and Comment so I can answer your questions and spread this valuable information please! Thank you! In July '22 for episode 19 of the Family...
EP 20 Addiction Impacts Friends Also
EP 20 Blog Post Alex Colyer of The Albertus Project lost her best friend to addiction. I am so honored to talk with my good friend Alex Colyer who has so much wisdom to share. Alex, thank you for coming on, how are you?...
Patrick Doyle’s Coaching on Psychology Today
EP 17 Find Help For Addiction
EP 17 Blog Post How to Find Help for Addiction The Emergency Department is the fastest route to treatment. Those needing treatment typically don't want to go to the Emergency Department; they want direct admission...
Patrick Doyle Talks With Linda Nellis: MORE support needed for families during addiction treatment
This is Linda's story; so sad yet powerful testimony for the need to involve families in addiction treatment, and what happens when families are not involved/supported. Which is ALWAYS. We can and we MUST do better. How do you help your...

“Nobody’s Perfect:” Parents Help Their Daughter Recover From Heroin Addiction
Today we have a guest blogger; Amanda S., also known as @RebelEclectic on Twitter where her advocacy has a following. Amanda has been open with her own story of addiction recovery. This will be more a story about her loving parents’ experience of addiction in their...

3 Ways The ‘Beautiful Boy’ Movie Corrects Misunderstandings About Addiction
[photo courtesy Amazon Studios] ‘Beautiful Boy’, now on Amazon Prime Video, is an accurate portrayal of what research has shown; that rather than being unidimensional, addiction usually develops from a myriad of influences and risk factors. There can be a strong...

How to understand the Drug Overdose epidemic through Twitter
Don’t you hate it when politicians and drug/health policy decision makers declare that an Opioid crisis is a national pubic health emergency that requires our full resources; yet the overdose death toll and damage continues with little if any change? 70,000 or so...

Harm Reduction Helps FAMILIES Recover
Had a terrific conversation with journalist Alison Knopf, whose case story in the latest Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly captures just how our Coaching using Harm Reduction can help Families find Recovery. This family had already tried the traditional approaches...