Deerfield Centers for Addictions Treatment

DCAT is pleased to announce that we are now offering Vivitrol to our patients! Vivitrol is a great option to solidify early recovery efforts and, up until recently, has not been widely available in our area. Have a read below and give us a call if you or some one you know would benefit!

Hey check this out!! I just watched this for 5 minutes and feel so relaxed!! Let us know what you think and give us a call if this sparks your interest! There's more where that came from at DCAT!

December 06, 2017Romance and recoveryPage 356 "Relationships can be a terribly painful area." Basic Text, p. 82... Love is like an elixir for some of us. The excitement of a new lover, the intrigue of exploring intimacy, the sense of release we get from allowing ourselves to become vulnerable-these are all powerful emotions. But we can't forget that we have only a daily reprieve from our addiction. Holding onto this daily reprieve must be the top priority in any recovering addict's life. We can become too involved in our relationship. We can neglect old friends and our sponsor in the process. Then, when things get difficult, we often feel that we can no longer reach out to those who helped us prior to our romantic involvement. This belief can lay the groundwork for a relapse. By consistently working our program and attending meetings, we ensure that we have a network of recovery, even when we're deep in a romance. Our desire to be romantically involved is natural. But we mustn't forget that, without our program, even the healthiest relationship will not guard us against the strength of our addiction. Just for Today: In my desire for romance, I will not ignore my recovery.

In celebration of Recovery Month, please join us next Wednesday night, September 27th, at 6:30pm at Praise fellowship in Russell for a showing of the Anonymous People. The event is sponsored by Forest Warren Human Services with special thanks to Praise Fellowship. Free admission. Bring a friend. We hope to see you there!

September 18, 2017Honest relationshipsPage 272 "One of the most profound changes in our lives is in the realm of personal relationships." Basic Text, p.57... Recovery gives many of us relationships that are closer and more intimate than any we've had before. As time passes, we find ourselves gravitating toward those who eventually become our friends, our sponsor, and our partners in life. Shared laughter, tears, and struggles bring shared respect and lasting empathy. What, then, do we do when we find that we don't agree with our friends on everything? We may discover that we don't share the same taste in music as our dearest friend, or that we don't agree with our spouse about how the furniture should be arranged, or even find ourselves voting differently than our sponsor at a service committee meeting. Does conflict mean that the friendship, the marriage, or the sponsorship is over? No! These types of conflict are not only to be expected in any long-lasting relationship but are actually an indication that both people are emotionally healthy and honest individuals. In any relationship where both people agree on absolutely everything, chances are that only one person is doing the thinking. If we sacrifice our honesty and integrity to avoid conflicts or disagreements, we give away the best of what we bring to our relationships. We experience the full measure of partnership with another human being when we are fully honest. Just for Today: I will welcome the differences that make each one of us special. Today, I will work on being myself.

September 06, 2017Regular meeting attendancePage 260 "We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean...." Basic Text, p.9 The NA program gives us a new pattern of living. One of the basic elements of that new pattern is regular meeting attendance. For the newcomer, living clean is a brand new experience. All that once was familiar is changed. The old people, places, and things that served as props on the stage of our lives are gone. New stresses appear, no longer masked or deadened by drugs. That's why we often suggest that newcomers attend a meeting every day. No matter what comes up, no matter how crazy the day gets, we know that our daily meeting awaits us. There, we can renew contact with other recovering addicts, people who know what we're going through because they've been through it themselves. No day needs to go by without the relief we get only from such fellowship. As we mature in recovery, we get the same kinds of benefits from regular meeting attendance. Regardless of how long we've been clean, we never stop being addicts. True, we probably won't immediately start using mass quantities of drugs if we miss our meetings for a few days. But the more regularly we attend NA meetings, the more we reinforce our identity as recovering addicts. And each meeting helps put us that much further from becoming using addicts again. Just for Today: I will make a commitment to include regular meeting attendance as a part of my new pattern of living.

September 02, 2017Higher PoweredPage 256 "Daily practice of our Twelve Step program enables us to change from what we were to people guided by a Higher Power." ...Basic Text, p.8 Who have we been, and who have we become? There are a couple of ways to answer this question. One is very simple: We came to Narcotics Anonymous as addicts, our addiction killing us. In NA, we've been freed from our obsession with drugs and our compulsion to use. And our lives have changed. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. Who have we really been? In the past, we were people without power or direction. We felt like we had no purpose, no reason for living. Our lives didn't make any more sense to us than they did to our families, our friends, or our neighbors. Who are we really becoming? Today, we are not merely clean addicts, but people with a sense of direction, a purpose, and a Power greater than ourselves. Through daily practice of the Twelve Steps, we've begun to understand how our addiction warped our feelings, motivations, and behavior. Gradually, the destructive force of our disease has been replaced by the life-giving force of our Higher Power. Recovery means more than cleaning up-it means powering up. We have done more than shed some bad habits; we are becoming new people, guided by a Higher Power. Just for Today: The guidance I need to become a new person is ready at hand. Today, I will draw further away from my old lack of direction and closer to my Higher Power.

Just for today let's enjoy our lives by placing our recovery first.