Searching for Meaning from Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama is the location where Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed and subsequently wrote his famous treatise on injustice titled: Letter from a Birmingham Jail. In a similar vein, there are people imprisoned by the uncompromising affliction of addiction.
There isn't any place in the country that's safe from the nefarious disease and Birmingham is no different. A lot of people who fall into addiction have forgotten who they are and what they live for.
Recovery, then, becomes a process of reclamation--where you learn who you are and what you should live for.
How Can I Help My Loved One Who Struggles with Addiction?
The best way to help someone struggling with addiction is to hold an intervention for them. An intervention gathers family and friends to help communicate the heartbreak the addiction causes.
A lot of times, people who struggle with addiction do not realize the hurt they are causing others.
Communicating this to them in a non-judgmental manner can go a long way in providing them with an alternative to their abuse. Isolation often serves as a catalyst for addiction, so when people in active addiction understand that they are loved and cared for, they can make a change.
If you want to start again, seek out help and call us now: (866) 578-7471 .
Should I Travel for Treatment?
If you are from the Birmingham area, you should consider traveling for treatment in order to start again in a place where people don't know your name. There are several benefits to traveling for treatment beyond anonymity. It also keeps you from falling back in with the people who helped begin your addiction.
Lastly, if you travel out of state, it will be incrementally harder to leave the treatment center if you think treatment is rough. It kind of forces you to fight through it.
The beginning to twelve step programs started with a group of Alcoholism who identified as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Since the movement of AA several other groups have adopted and arranges the 12-step process to meet their particular needs and issues with addiction and behaviors. Other groups who have adopted the process of AA are: Cocaine Anonymous (CA) , Heroine Anonymous (HA), Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) , Narcotics Anonymous (NA), etc.
