Mike Loverde

When you’re married to a substance user, it can be devastating. Some of the spouses’ most significant challenges are realizing when you’re loved is using substances, they’re putting you second,...

A significant part of our S.A.F.E. family recovery coaching program and intervention process helps families recognize, address, and understand their enabling behaviors. When we enable people, we disable their ability...

At some point in a conversation with one of our professionals, your family or a family member will ask us what happens if they say no to the intervention. Having...

Alcoholism and drug addiction devastate family systems. Anyone reading this is probably in a place where they don’t know where to turn, and when somebody in a family is using...

Handling codependency issues with friends and family requires you to look at why and where the codependency is coming from. In lay terms, codependency is: I feel better when they...

The Transtheoretical Model (TTM), or Stages of Change Model, in addiction recovery, breaks down the journey of behaviors from denial to maintaining sobriety and abstinence. The model has a 6th...

Is addiction considered a mental illness? Drug addiction and alcoholism are listed as “substance use disorder” in the Diagnostical Statistical Manual, also known as the DSM V, published by the...

Many families, friends, spouses, children, and just about anyone who cares about someone with a substance use or mental disorder wonder whether or not the intended patient can love someone....

In this blog, we’ll look at the following: What is an Intervention? It is not uncommon to believe that an intervention is merely a speech of coercion or negotiation between...