The recent National Online Recovery Day for 2024 happened on September 22nd: a day to honor the recovery from substance abuse via using online services, be it online, telephone. Zoom, or any other online resource. What a way to celebrate: any day, any time, video, audio or any other way that works with recovery. To continue my segment on better living through better health and freedom here, and throughout the year to come, in order to implement great healing–I will feature articles designed to improve physical, emotional and spiritual healing, especially in the fentanyl era.

Versatileer  Brings you this post in regards to more safe living, through awareness of anyone’s usage of dangerous and highly toxic mind altering and mood changing substances.

💊 Great Reasons to Honor Online Recovery Day

🚬 Synopsis:
People who need recovery make a great decision to be able to attend a physical meeting, but sometimes time is not very lenient to be able to make it to recovery resources. Also, what doe someone do when sickness has set in. Go to a meeting, or not? Nowadays in this electronic age, it is very easy to make recovery resources available by doing it online. These services, like Zoom, Google Meeting, and other services were cortical in order to extend recovery resources availability 7 days a week, and oftentimes, online recovery resources is available online 24/7.

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🛡️ Online Resources for Recovery:

⚕️ The Addict Really Needs the Care:
With the advent of the COVID-19 era, people really still needed the care of recovery resources. Because it simply was not possible or there were mandates by certain states, or even sickness. . .physical meetings were not possible and/or practical. That does not mean that they were not needed! The necessary resources are always needed, and save lives. Today these circumstances happen, albeit not as often, but the care of having an online recovery resources is still there and available.

🔰 Many Resource Chat Room Types are Available:
Here are the main type of online recovery resources available:

• An exclusive Zoom meeting online or on cellphone app
• An exclusive or hybrid Zoom meeting online shared in a room or on cellphone app
• The ability to use an access number to join a Zoom meeting from a standard phone line
• An exclusive or hybrid Google Meet meeting online or on cellphone app
• An exclusive or hybrid Microsoft Teams meeting online or on cellphone app
• An online forum with an “Instant Messaging” bubble script scroller
• A group telephone meeting with a call-in access point phone number (partyline style)

🔒 A Custom Designed Comfort Zone is Available to All:
There are different levels of privacy available to all who join any type of chat room:

• The joining attendee can make the camera not available, rendering output from the attendee to be either a provided static image, or default avatars.
• The joining attendee can make the microphone not available, rendering sound output from the attendee to be silent. THis can be just momentarily squelched, or joining the chat room permanently silenced.

👨🏻‍💼 Moderator can Determine Different Types of Material to be Shared:
The great thing about an online chat room is that the moderator is able to share more than just persons chatting together. images online with a special box. This allows the format of the online recovery resource to follow a specific them and not get too far off subject line. Here are the main type of online recovery resources available:

• Images
• Text
• Sound Sources
• More. . .

The great thing about a Zoom meeting is that the moderator is able to share material online with a special box. This allows the format of the online recovery resource to follow a specific them and not get too far off subject line.

⚠️ The Moderator:
Moderators are in essence directors of an online resource to be able to have a session flow properly, and inline with the onset mission statement. Making sure that all attendees are in a safe place online ,and that the resource is living up to it’s name is of utmost importance. . .for an resource to be available for everyone to feel not only safe being in the chat room, but also for the chat to be of such interest that not only does the attendee stay, but they come back in the future. Therefore a moderator is an absolute necessity when it comes to any online chat room. Sometimes a particular chat room has specified rules, i.e= the online user may have to be more than a static image, or be silent. Unfortunately, as with any group sharing, sometimes. . .a renegade attendee can attempt to interrupt the discussion with the use of profanity, trying to display vulgar and even pornagrahy, so a moderator is there to screen off these incidents, wither to cutting them off, or to squelch their sound source and video and let them continue to follow; and even ban someone from joining the resource for both the session, and/or a permanent ban..

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🔄 Support Group Assistance:

🍻 There Is Help Out There:
There is an online resource for the person who is seeking assistance or just support or just being there.
Mutual-Support Groups:

• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), for persons directly seeking membership if they think that they have an alcohol problem with or without a cannabis usage problem

Join a Meeting HERE:

• Narcotics Anonymous (NA), for persons directly seeking membership if they think that they are an addict, with or without the combination of a cannabis use problem.

Join a Meeting HERE:

• Cocaine Anonymous (CA), for persons directly seeking membership if they think that they are an addict of cocaine.

Join a Meeting HERE:

• Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA), for persons directly seeking membership if they think that they are an addicted to methamphetamines.

Join a Meeting HERE:

• Marijuana Anonymous (MA), for persons directly seeking membership if they think that they have a cannabis use problem.

Join a Meeting HERE:

• Al-Anon Family Groups, for families, peers, and persons being affected by someone with an alcohol problem, with or without a cannabis usage problem.

Join a Meeting HERE:

• Nar-Anon Family Groups, for families, peers, and persons being affected by someone with a drug problem, with or without a cannabis usage problem.

Join a Meeting HERE:

• Celebrate Recovery, for persons directly seeking recovery with a Christian based 12-step program.

Join a Meeting HERE:

• Other 12-step programs. . .

All 12-step programs provide peer support for people quitting or cutting back on use of any substances, including the other resources may be in the individual’s best interest to trial. There are programs for families, peers and friends who are directly affected by problematic drug abuse and/or drinking. Combined with a treatment plan led by health professionals, mutual-support groups can offer a valuable added layer of support. Many health professionals in most modern times even have direct information to provide to individuals to find a proper support group. Even though the anonymous nature of mutual-support groups make it difficult for researchers to determine the success rates compared with those led by health professionals, many have become most assured in these modern days that they are indeed a complete asset in the reliance of being able to overcome a problem of dependence of substances.

There is room for anyone to realize that it is no joke to getting over the use of any drugs and/or alcohol use. Dedicating life to getting through life, having time to balance the day is paramount for every person. Meetings to an addict are not only a necessity, but the average addict likes going to a meeting. When it is either not possible or practical, having an online meeting available fills that gap. The reason National Online Recovery Day is important is to bring recognition to the available online resources in order to fill that gap.

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National Online Recovery Day