Family Education Group
TWC offers a comprehensive, four-session Family & Friends Education Group (FFEG) that educates and supports family members to better understand addiction. The sessions are a source of knowledge, support, and connection for family members. Sharing similar experiences in a safe ...
Hosted by Together We Can - Addiction Recovery Centre
Treatment Centre
Verified Verified
Group meets in Vancouver, BC V5R
TWC offers a comprehensive, four-session Family & Friends Education Group (FFEG) that educates and supports family members to better understand addiction. The sessions are a source of knowledge, support, and connection for family members. Sharing similar experiences in a safe ...
More Groups Nearby
Family Education Group
TWC offers a comprehensive, four-session Family & Friends Education Group (FFEG) that educates and supports family members to better understand addiction. The sessions are a source of knowledge, support, and connection for family members. Sharing similar experiences in a safe ...
Hosted by Together We Can - Addiction Recovery Centre
Treatment Centre
Verified Verified
Group meets in Vancouver, BC V5R
TWC offers a comprehensive, four-session Family & Friends Education Group (FFEG) that educates and supports family members to better understand addiction. The sessions are a source of knowledge, support, and connection for family members. Sharing similar experiences in a safe ...
CanAm Interventions 101 Training
CanAm Interventions is an orientation training program that focuses on the principles, philosophies, and basics behind the most popular intervention disciplines utilized today. This training is beneficial to those working in the addiction, mental health, medical, legal and first responder ...
Hosted by Patricia Pike (CEO) Interventions Canada
Drug & Alcohol Counsellor, LAADC, ICAADC, ICADC, CIP, NAID
Verified Verified
Group meets in Burnaby, BC V5R
CanAm Interventions is an orientation training program that focuses on the principles, philosophies, and basics behind the most popular intervention disciplines utilized today. This training is beneficial to those working in the addiction, mental health, medical, legal and first responder ...
Virtual Recovery
Welcome to Westminster House Virtual Recovery Program. Whether you are new to or familiar with recovery, the next eight weeks will take you through a journey of self-discovery. You will learn the fundamentals of a 12 step program and the ...
Hosted by Westminster House Society for Women
Treatment Centre, CCS-AC
Verified Verified
Group meets in New Westminster, BC V3M
Welcome to Westminster House Virtual Recovery Program. Whether you are new to or familiar with recovery, the next eight weeks will take you through a journey of self-discovery. You will learn the fundamentals of a 12 step program and the ...
See more therapy options for Vancouver
Alcohol Use Support Groups
Are there specific medications for alcohol use?
There are oral medications approved to treat alcohol use disorder—such as disulfiram, acamprosate, and naltrexone, which also comes in an injectable form. These medications do help people reduce their drinking as well as avoid the problem of relapse. Naltrexone helps reduce cravings, disulfiram can make a person feel sick when they drink, and acamprosate may help ease symptoms like poor sleep and anxious feelings.
How do alcohol recovery or rehabilitation programs work?
In inpatient programs, individuals live in a facility with other patients in recovery; in outpatient programs,individuals live at home. These facilities are staffed with healthcare professionals including physicians, nurses, psychologists, counselors, and psychotherapists. Staff can also include people who have recovered themselves, serving as mentors and guides. These programs may use abstinence, harm reduction, detoxification, psychotherapy, and other tools for recovery.
How do 12-step programs combined with psychotherapy work?
Members of 12-step programs help each other reach abstinence and work to maintain it. These programs promote complete change in the individual’s emotional, mental, physical, and even spiritual perspectives. Some programs require that new members attend 90 meetings in 90 days. Many people do attend these programs in conjunction with their work in psychotherapy; the combination of therapy along with 12-step can be extremely effective.
How does harm reduction combined with psychotherapy work?
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, harm reduction prevents death, injury, disease, overdose, and substance misuse. People who choose harm reduction for alcohol use reduce the amount of alcohol they intake. It is not abstinence-based like a 12-step program, but combining harm reduction with psychotherapy proves to be effective for many people.