A Vision For You MAT Capable Sober Living

08/29/2019

05/17/2019

Tonight's Life Skills was incredible! Grocery shopping using coupons and other cost-saving ideas!

05/15/2019

New!

Medication Assisted Recovery Anonymous (MARA)

“Whatever It Takes”

Wednesday, May 22, 6 pm

2535A Mountain Lodge Circle
Birmingham 35216

12 Steps, Stigma-free, No Judgement

05/09/2019

"Throughout most of my time on the Board I continued to be puzzled by the original question: Why had I, specifically, been invited to serve?... In the early years of AA Bill and the original trustees were acutely sensitive to the danger of the Fellowship being distorted by aggressive persons with dogmatic opinions."

https://addictionandrecoverynews.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/the-methadoneaa-link-2/

Here’s an interesting follow-up to my post about the Newsweek article.This in an excerpt from a lecture by Vincent Dole, a pioneer in methadone maintenance:In the early 1960’s I was honored (…

03/23/2019

https://sobernation.com/4-things-sober-people-do-that-most-people-dont/?fbclid=IwAR126s7hwsi--QR6Ly3ayhlQK-O9jKpTSYAcAPqyqBwcq16DAqkhNm8u1c0

Many people in recovery acquire a special group of character traits. Here are 4 things that sober people do that other people usually don't.

03/19/2019

This is so awesome

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/19/695690652/aspiring-doctors-seek-advanced-training-in-addiction-medicine

03/17/2019

One of our core Life Skills concepts is assisting residents with finding sustainable employment, which helps promote overall self-confidence, personal pride and financial well-being, and begins the process of paying off debts and making financial amends.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/12/how-the-opioid-crisis-is-hindering-us-labor-force-participation.html

The U.S. opioid crisis is hitting the country on many fronts, including the labor market, data reviewed by CNBC show.

03/08/2019

https://lnkd.in/eej2twf

Despite the well-documented success rate of MAT, a recent study found that only 30 percent of overdose survivors are given any one of the three FDA-approved medications for their disease. But signs point to shifting attitudes.

03/07/2019

Powerful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAY7zAS2MVo&t=11s

03/04/2019

https://www.thefix.com/what-sets-suboxone-apart-other-medication-assisted-treatments

When taken as prescribed by an op**te addict, Suboxone doesn't allow me to avoid or escape reality. This is one way it differs form other MATs.

02/24/2019