Integrating Seeking Safety and 12 Step Recovery: A Short Commentary

Integrating Seeking Safety and 12 Step Recovery: A Short Commentary

Research has consistently demonstrated the relationship between substance use disorders and traumatic experiences. The self-medication hypothesis suggests that the appeal to promptly reduce one’s psychological suffering contributes to the reliance on substance abuse as a form of maladaptive coping with trauma-related symptoms [1]. Treatment for individuals with comorbid substance use and trauma...

Cultural points of resistance to the 12-Step recovery process.

This article addresses some of the key issues in developing culturally relevant approaches to drug abuse treatment and recovery, using the HAFC/Glide African-American Extended Family Program as a positive example of effective cultural adaptability within recovery. Cultural points of resistance to the recovery process are also addressed, including the perception that 12-Step fellowships are excl...

features of short story in translated and non-translated literature: a polysystemic perspective

ترجمه متون ادبی در دنیای امروز از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. فرهنگ های مختلف با استفاده از متون ادبی ملل و فرهنگ های دیگر سعی در غنی کردن فرهنگ و ادبیات کشور خود دارند. کشور ما نیز از این قاعده مستثنی نیست. در ایران، ترجمه متون ادبی اروپائی که با دوران مشروطه ایرانی آغاز می شود موجب تغییرات اساسی در فرهنگ، شیوه زندگی و تفکر ایرانیان شده است. در این دوران نه تنها در امورات سیاسی و فکری کشور تغی...

Commentary A large step for myosin

M is a fundamental characteristic of all living things. Many researchers are therefore interested in muscle, the tissue that produces movement in animals. Muscle contraction is a result of the relative sliding movement between actin and myosin filaments, fueled by the chemical energy of ATP hydrolysis. In 1969, based on an x-ray diffraction study of muscle, H. E. Huxley (1) proposed a ‘‘tilting...

Endorsing religion: drug courts and the 12-step recovery support program.