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Explained: Non-Abstinence Recovery | Recovery

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Dr. Adi and Sophie Jaffe

Mental Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.4694 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jaffe explains what non-abstinence recovery is. He debunks and simplifies these "new approaches" that you may have heard recently and gives you permission to do what works best for you.

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0:00.0

Your entire job in life right now is to just figure out how to stop drinking, even though alcohol

0:04.7

has been the only thing that's made life tolerable to you, completely ignores the reality of the

0:08.9

people that we purport to be trying to help.

0:13.9

Welcome to the Ignited Recovery podcast, a new way forward for anyone looking for answers

0:19.2

but feeling left out.

0:21.6

If you've been searching for empowerment, triumph, and purpose, you've found them right here.

0:26.6

You won't hear the same solutions and you're not going to have any excuses to fall back on

0:31.6

because ignited recovery allows heroes to rise and become their best selves.

0:41.3

I'm Dr. Adi Jaffe, and I can't wait to be your guide on this journey.

0:44.7

Are you ready to become an ignited hero?

0:56.8

The reason there are so many services that are trying to target gray area drinking a new sobriety,

1:03.9

California sober, plant medicine supported recovery, medication assisted treatment over.

1:06.5

I mean, there's so many different words for what it is that we're talking about,

1:10.9

which is essentially non-abstinence-based recovery.

1:14.2

They all fall into that exact same category.

1:19.7

Gray area drinking means very simply people who are trying to reduce their drinking or stop for small periods of time, not lifelong abstinence.

1:23.2

The new sobriety, even if you drink a little, yeah, because then you're not sober in the co-opted

1:29.6

A-A sense of the word. You know, plant medicine as being used is essentially a different form

1:36.0

of medication-assisted treatment. It's just plant medicine versus methadone, buprenorphine,

1:39.8

et cetera. And the California sober notion, right, where a lot of people have transitioned

1:45.1

from regular use of alcohol to maybe sporadic use of alcohol with some cannabis or no alcohol

1:51.2

and more cannabis. All of these are variants of essentially non-absonance treatment, the idea that

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