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Help yourself, and help your loved one, with an alternative to Al-Anon and
Johnson Intervention.
SMART Recovery would like to welcome you and help you
find the information and provide you with the resources
you can use to help yourself, as well your loved one.

SMART Recovery Family & Friends is a science-based,

secular alternative to Al-Anon and Johnson Intervention.
Our method is based on the tools of SMART Recovery and
CRAFT (Community Reinforcement Approach & Family
Training).

SMART Recovery Family & Friends helps those who are

affected by the substance abuse, drug abuse, alcohol abuse,
or other addictions of a loved one.

The SMART Recovery Family & Friends Handbook and Family & Friends Facilitator
Manual are available in the SMART Recovery Bookstore!

SMART Recovery Online Volunteer Facilitators provide Concerned Significant Others (CSO)
meetings to address specific issues encountered when a friend or family member tries to
reach out and help a loved one affected by addiction.

The meetings share SMART Recovery tools that can be implemented by CSOs to help with
emotional upsets, effective communication methods when dealing with loved ones, and
more. Techniques employed within the CRAFT Program (Community Reinforcement
Approach and Family Training) are shared for the benefit of meeting attendees.

To Participate
To participate in the Family & Friends meetings, registration is required at the SMART
Recovery Online website: www.smartrecovery.org/community.

Several online Family & Friends meetings are held each week. For more
information, check our schedule of online meetings.
A Family & Friends (Concerned Significant Others) Message Board Forum for additional
support is also available.
In an effort to meet the interest and demand for locally-available SMART Recovery Family &
Friends meetings, there is a growing number of areas where local (face-to-face) SMART
Recovery Family & Friends meetings are now offered.

You can get more information on SMART Recovery meetings in the local meetings directory.

Are you interested in starting a Family & Friends meeting in your area or for your practice?
Get more information

CRAFT: Community Reinforcement And Family Training

For concerned significant others, SMART Recovery recommends Community
Reinforcement Approach & Family Training (CRAFT). CRAFT aims to teach family and
friends self-protection and non-confrontational skills to help their addicted loved one find
recovery.

CRAFT groups may be difficult to find, as this approach is very new, but more information
can be found in two excellent books:

Get Your Loved One Sober offers a revolutionary program for those who are
seeking recovery for their loved ones. CRAFT boasts a phenomenal success
rate getting people into treatment and recovery.

Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change 

Based on CRAFT, Beyond Addiction from the Center for Motivation and

Change, offers a groundbreaking, science-based guide to helping loved ones
overcome addiction problems and compulsive behaviors.

More About CRAFT:

An alternative to Al-Anon’s 12-Step tradition and detachment recommendations and the
Johnson Institute’s confrontational interventions, the CRAFT program is based on non-
confrontational and proven behavioral principles like finding and rewarding positive
behaviors. It is a program congruent with SMART Recovery.

Families can learn to change their interactions with their loved one, which in turn changes
the loved one’s behavior. In repeated clinical trials, CRAFT’s approach proved twice as
likely as the Johnson intervention and six times as likely as Al-Anon to get a loved one
into treatment.

With CRAFT, arranging for one’s own safety and finding a happier
life for one’s self takes priority. Getting a loved one to moderate,
choose sobriety, or go into treatment are then offered as roads to a
better relationship.

CRAFT was developed by Robert Meyers, Ph.D. Dr. Meyers has been
in the addiction field for 33 years with 23 of those years being at the
University of New Mexico. He is currently the director of Robert J.
Meyers, Ph.D. & Associates and a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in Psychology at
the University of New Mexico’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addiction. He
has been involved in over a dozen clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health,
including Project Match and the Clinical Trials Network.

SMART Recovery provides a Concerned Significant Others (For Families & Friends) area
on our messageboard to provide online peer support. You are also welcome to use any of
our online resources and attend our meetings if you choose.

Things to Do If Your Loved One is Addicted to Alcohol and/or Drugs.

The above article is also available here in PDF format

Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers and Providers

Oxygen Mask Rule for Family & Friends

SMART Recovery® Family & Friends Handout

Enjoy these podcasts with CRAFT experts Dr. Robert Meyers and Dr. Jeffrey Foote.

How Science and Kindness Help People Change with Dr. Jeffrey Foote May 2014

Family & Friends Special Event with Dr. Robert Meyers August 2013

Family & Friends Special Event with Dr. Robert Meyers April 2011

Family & Friends Suggested Reading List

Recommended readings for SMART Recovery Friends & Family participants and
meeting hosts:

SMART Recovery Family & Friends Handbook: For Family & Friends participants,
available in the SMART Shop.

SMART Recovery Family & Friends Facilitator Manual: For meeting facilitators, also
available in the SMART Shop.

Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening:
available from Amazon.

Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change: available from
Amazon.

I’m Right, You’re Wrong, Now What?: Break the Impasse and Get What You Need:
available from Amazon.

SMART Recovery Teen Handbook: For those concerned about teens. Developed via a grant
obtained by The Community Coalition for Teens in Greenfield, Massachusetts, the SMART
Recovery® Handbook was adapted to be applicable and helpful to teens. Available in the
SMART Store.

See Also:
Center for Motivation and Change’s 20 Minute Guide for Parents (an online workbook
for parents)

SMART Tool Chest:  https://www.smartrecovery.org/smart-recovery-toolbox/

SMART Articles & Essays:  https://www.smartrecovery.org/smart-articles/

Listen to a Podcast with Dr. Robert Meyers discussing CRAFT

HBO’s Addiction Series – Information regarding CRAFT

 
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organizations:
 

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participants learn tools for addiction recovery based on the latest scientific research and
participate in a world-wide community which includes free, self-empowering, science-based
mutual help groups.

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