recovery meetings
Addiction support groups
Recovery meetings are gatherings where people struggling with addiction or compulsive behavior meet to share experiences and support each other's sobriety.
The term covers various formats—twelve-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, SMART Recovery, and similar groups: She attends recovery meetings three times a week.
Most follow a structured format with personal sharing, though specifics vary by program.
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- group therapyCommunal psychological treatment
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- twelve-stepAddiction recovery framework
- big bookLarge bound publication
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- support groupssupport groups, support group, self-help groups, group therapy, peer support
- peer supportpeer counseling, peer mentors, peer counselors, support networks, self-help groups
recovery meetingsrelapse
Return to former illness
using · binge drinking · drug use · partying · substance abuse
recovery meetingsisolation
Complete separation from others
secret drinking · denial · going it alone · white-knuckling · social withdrawal
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