Until recently, people seeking recovery from alcohol and dependence issues had limited recovery resources, for example Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programs. These programs have helped people toward recovery, but they aren’t for everyone. We have compiled the following information and resources to help you and your loved ones along the road to recovery, step-free.
SMART Recovery®
www.SmartRecovery.org
SMART Recovery offers
face-to-face and online
mutual help groups. SMART Recovery (Self-Management And Recovery Training)
helps people recover from all types of addictive behaviors, including alcoholism.
As an alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, SMART
Recovery® offers more than 300 meetings around the world, and 16+ online
meetings per week. SMART Recovery's online
message board is an excellent forum in which to learn more about it's
program and to seek support.
ARCA is highly involved with SMART Recovery and provides a meeting space for
Phoenix area members:
Albert Ellis SMART Recovery® Center
1000 E. Indian School Road
Phoenix, AZ 85014
Phone: (602) 393-2688
Women For Sobriety
www.womenforsobriety.org
Women For Sobriety is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women
overcome alcoholism and other addictions. It's "New Life" program
helps achieve sobriety and sustain ongoing recovery.
LifeRing
www.unhooked.com
Recovery in LifeRing promotes freedom from alcohol and other addictive drugs
with peer support and feedback in a secular setting where you can structure
your own program for recovery.
SOS (Secular Organizations
for Sobriety)
www.cfiwest.org/sos/index.htm
SOS is an alternative recovery method for those alcoholics or drug
addicts who are uncomfortable with the spiritual content of widely available
12-Step programs. SOS takes a reasonable, secular approach to recovery and
maintains that sobriety is a separate issue from religion or spirituality.
SOS credits the individual for achieving and maintaining his or her own
sobriety, without reliance on any "Higher Power." SOS respects
recovery in any form regardless of the path by which it is achieved. It
is not opposed to or in competition with any other recovery programs.
SOS supports healthy skepticism and encourages the use of the scientific method to understand alcoholism.
Contact Assisted Recovery today at
(602) 264-7897 or toll free (800) 527-5344
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