Based out of South Africa, it is a collaborative platform for Millennials’ sober (and otherwise) thoughts on alcohol and its role in their everyday lives.
Faces & Voices of Recovery
Working to support individuals in long-term recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and their family members, friends and allies in a variety of ways, including, capacity building in support of the national recovery movement, fighting the stigma of addiction, creating groundbreaking recovery messaging training, and more.
Hello Sunday Morning
Based in Australia, their purpose is to build technology that supports any individual to change their relationship with alcohol. Whether it is taking a break from drinking or simply cutting back – they are here to support you and your choice.
Hip Sobriety
She created her own modern, affordable, beautiful, accessible, empowering, self-directed recovery that reflected who she was as an individual. Her goal is to provide you the same resources, tools, education, roadmaps, and inspiration that helped her navigate her own recovery, including a weekly newsletter, podcast, and online Sobriety School.
Life Ring Secular Recovery
An abstinence-based, worldwide network of individuals seeking to live in recovery from addiction. They offer peer-to-peer support in ways that encourage personal growth and continued learning through personal empowerment. Their approach is based on developing, refining, and sharing personal strategies for continued abstinence and crafting a rewarding life in recovery. It is secular and and self-directed.
Moderate Drinking
A subscription-based service for people who want to change their drinking by moderating or cutting back. Its effectiveness has been demonstrated in a randomized clinical trial funded by NIH/NIAAA. It is also listed on SAMHSA's National Register of Evidence-based Programs and Practices. A portion of the subscription proceeds are donated to Moderation Management (MM).
Moderation Management (MM)
A behavioral change program and national support group network for people concerned about their drinking and who desire to make positive lifestyle changes. It empowers individuals to accept personal responsibility for choosing and maintaining their own path, whether moderation or abstinence. It is run by lay members who came to the organization to resolve personal issues and stayed to help others.
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
One of the 27 institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It supports and conducts research on the impact of alcohol use on human health and well-being. It is the largest funder of alcohol research in the world.
Rachel Hart Coaching
She offers coaching for those who want to learn how to drink less and feel better, and offers a 30-minute coaching session for free. She also has a podcast about taking a break from drinking.
Rethinking Drinking: Alcohol & Your Health
From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), learn what counts as a drink, why being able to "hold your liquor" is a concern, the signs that alcohol is causing harm, and if you have a risky drinking pattern.
Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS)
A nonprofit network of autonomous, non-professional local groups, dedicated solely to helping individuals achieve and maintain sobriety/abstinence from alcohol and drug addiction, food addiction and more.
SMART Recovery
Their 4-point program (Building and Maintaining Motivation, Coping with Urges, Managing Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors, and Living a Balanced Life) helps people recover from all types of addictive behaviors. It is is not a 12-step group, but sponsors face-to-face meetings around the world, daily online meetings, online message board, and 24/7 chat room. They believe that each individual finds their own path to recovery. For some participants, that path may also include 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), or other programs, such as Women for Sobriety, LifeRing Secular Recovery, Moderation Management, or Secular Organizations for Sobriety. Although the SMART Recovery approach is different in various ways, it does not necessarily exclude them.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
The agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. Their mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.
Taking the Escalator
The Escalator approach is a person-centered, proactive substance abuse counseling perspective which strategically combines aspects of several existing evidence-based treatment practices including: Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, the Stages of Change model, and Harm Reduction under the umbrella of subsequent integration of mental health and other coexisting issues.
The Sober School
This site is full of great resources to help you create an alcohol-free life you love, including a 6 week course where you’ll learn a step-by-step formula to help you change your relationship with booze for good in an online group coaching format, whether you want to take a longer break from alcohol or quit for good.
Women for Sobriety
A non-profit organization dedicated to helping women overcome alcoholism and other addictions. The Women for Sobriety "New Life" Program is comprised of thirteen acceptance statements that, when accepted and used, will provide each woman with a new way of life through a new way of thinking.
