When IOP is Not Enough

Together AZ Sobriety 5 Feb, 2014

By Jaime Vinck, Program Clinical Director North Ridge Counseling Danny successfully completed a great residential treatment program, extending his stay from the traditional 30 day to 45 days. He moved...

AZRHA Sober Living Section

Together AZ Sobriety 5 Feb, 2014

Recovery Housing in Arizona By Duane Mantey For those new in recovery having a sober living environment can be critical to long term sobriety. It offers the opportunity to ease...

For Young People Addicted to Painkillers, the Path Less Taken

Together AZ Sobriety 5 Feb, 2014

By Stephen J. Pasierb & A. Thomas McLellen PH. D. Abuse of prescription (Rx) medications, particularly of Rx opioids (medicines that treat pain), continues to be one of the nation’s...

How to Cultivate and Disseminate Misery to Alienate Family, Friends, Acquaintances, and Strangers

Together AZ Sobriety 4 Feb, 2014

by Dr. Marlo Archer Complain about situations you created. TIP: These complaints will be even more effective if you can think of someone unrelated on which to blame the situation....

A Love Note

Together AZ Publishers Corner 4 Feb, 2014

To this day, I have not met one person in recovery who had much love for themselves when they started their journey. I did not feel an ounce of love for...

Navigating the Way from Despair to Hope How Community Bridges Navigators are Helping Others & Giving Back

Together AZ Sobriety 3 Jan, 2014

By Kristen L. Polin, MAEd, Community Bridges, Inc. (CBI) When Kelly Denman was just 9 years old, she faced the loss of her father under no ordinary circumstance. After struggling...

A New Year & A First Step

Together AZ Sobriety 3 Jan, 2014

From your first breath as a newborn, to your first step as a toddler, to your first teacher in kindergarten, to your big step to that diploma, to your first...

Project Purple

Together AZ Sobriety 3 Jan, 2014

Chris Herren’s high profile fall from the pinnacle of his professional basketball career was a well-documented media story that focused on drug use while in uniform, multiple arrests and a...

Elements Behavioral Health Acquires Journey Healing Centers’ Network of Addiction Treatment Centers in Arizona and Utah

Together AZ Sobriety 3 Jan, 2014

Elements Behavioral Health, a leading nationwide provider of addiction and mental health treatment programs, announced on December 18, 2013 that it has acquired Journey Healing Centers’ network of drug and...

Together AZ Sobriety 3 Jan, 2014

When Christopher Columbus and his crew were sailing their long and arduous voyage to a world they had heard about but never seen, the sailors grew discouraged. Eventually the faith-tested...