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Who Answers?4 Ways NA 12 Steps Can Help You Crave a Drug-Free Life
Anyone who’s struggled with drug abuse and addiction well knows the pain and frustration this way of life brings. While it may start out as fun and games at the beginning, with each passing day it gets harder to get “high.” It also gets harder to stop using.
By the time a person realizes he or she can’t stop using the drug, the damage has already been done. At this point, breaking free from the web of addiction requires abilities that the addict no longer has.
The NA 12 Steps provide a person with the mental tools needed to break addiction’s hold while feeding his or her desire to live a healthy, drug-free life.
Please feel free to call our toll-free helpline at 800-781-0748 (Who Answers?) to ask about NA 12 Steps treatment options.
Needing to Change vs. Wanting to Change
Reconnecting with your best self will motivate you to live drug-free.
Months or years of drug addiction will eventually drive a person to the point where the need for change becomes painfully apparent. Whether it be through the words of a loved one, losing a job or hitting rock bottom, the destructive behaviors that drug abuse breeds will come to light in one way or another, according to the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services.
Seeing the need to change is essential. Actually “wanting” to live life without drugs can make all the difference in the word. The NA 12 Steps helps you want to change for you, rather than needing to change for someone or something else.
4 Ways NA 12 Steps Can Help
1. Seeing Drug Addiction for What It Is
One of the scariest things about drug addiction lies in how a drug’s effects can override basic common sense. After a DUI, or divorce or job loss, the addict still can’t see drugs as the problem.
The NA 12 Steps approach helps you see addiction for what it is and what it’s done to your life.
2. Working Through Underlying Issues
According to the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, unresolved emotional issues and daily stressors can actually feed the need for drugs when a person has nothing else to fall back on. Learning to work through underlying emotional problems is a central focus in NA 12 Steps.
Armed with a healthy set of coping skills, a person has the needed tools for managing daily life on a drug-free basis.
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3. Reconnecting With Your Best Self
The NA 12 Steps approach places a heavy emphasis on cultivating a connection with your Higher Power. In essence, this Higher Power concept has to do with developing the types of values and motivations that reflect who you want to be.
In this respect, reconnecting with your best self becomes the driving force behind your efforts in recovery.
4. Living a New Lifestyle
There comes a point in the recovery process where a person realizes that it is in fact possible to live a drug-free life. While it doesn’t happen overnight, anyone who works the NA 12 Steps plan can expect to see the types of changes that make this new lifestyle a reality.
If you or someone you know is considering 12 Step treatment, please don’t hesitate to call our helpline at 800-781-0748 (Who Answers?) to speak with one of our addiction counselors.