Harry L. Hartounian M.D. -
Member, RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board for Addiction & Psychiatry. Physician Director Residential Treatment , Licensed Professional Program, Clinical Diagnostic Evaluations Betty Ford Center.
Dr. Hartounian addresses the RiverMend Health Scientific Advisory Board on the 12 steps to achieve wholeness and how alcoholism and addiction can be a disease or a choice.
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For more information visit: http://www.rivermendhealth.com/scientific-advisory-board-addiction.html
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Recovery And Staying Sober
1. Recovery And Staying Sober
Harry L. Haroutunian, MD
Physician Director Residential Treatment ,
Licensed Professional Program,
Clinical Diagnostic Evaluations
Betty Ford Center
2. The 12-StepsThe 12-Steps
• The steps help achieve wholeness that is
integrity between your beliefs (inner-self)
and actions (outer-self).
• We form a cohesive life in harmony with
our deepest values. We see how we have
acted against our values and learn to live
in harmony.
3. 12-Steps = Solution12-Steps = Solution
1. There is a Power that wants to kill me!
2. There is a Power that wants me to live
3. Do I want to Live or Die?
4. I am selfish; dishonest and a jerk
5. Tell your entire embarrassing story
6. Do you want to live that way anymore?
7. If you want to change – ask for help
8. Make right, all we had done wrong
9. Fix what you can
10. Mistakes are human
11. Ask your Higher Power for help
12. Pass it on
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5. Is alcoholism/addiction aIs alcoholism/addiction a
DiseaseDisease or aor a ChoiceChoice??
• Choice:
– Responsible
• -Fault
– Behaviors
• -Punishment may
work
– Cause
• -Parental examples
• -Feeling of deprivation
• -Health/Behavioral
issues
– Free will
• -Can Stop
Disease:
Not responsible
-Faultless
Symptoms
-Punishment doesn’t
work
Cause
-Genetic predisposition
60%
-Environmental 40%
-Nature of the drug
No free will
-Can’t Stop