Recovery Resources
Listed below are links to brochures, articles, Websites, radio shows, and magazines, with information of interest to you or your loved ones. If you don't find what you need here, call the Iowa Substance Abuse Information Center (ISAIC), 1-866-242-4111, for further information.
If you are looking for a support group, check out this link to mutual aid groups.
Websites
Iowa Substance Abuse Information Center (ISAIC), sponsor of RecoveryIowa.org, is a portal to alcohol, drug, and gambling information that you can trust.
1-800-Bets Off, Gambling information and referral.
Recovery Schools, High schools & colleges with both academic and recovery goals.
stopandstartover.com helps addicts and alcoholics get information about how to get better. It demystifies the process of recovery.
Blogs and Online Communities
www.Sober24.com, is an online social media site that helps people throughout the world maintain their recovery from addiction and compulsive behaviors.
Families Facing Addiction, from Hazelden.
In the Rooms. In The Rooms is a comprehensive online social network for the Recovery community, whose mission is to help, inform, touch, connect, and heal those already in Recovery, seeking Recovery and the family and friends supporting Recovery.
Renew, supports individuals recovering from drug and alcohol addiction and their loved ones by providing relevant and engaging information and resources to keep them connected and encourage them to create and embrace a healthy lifestyle as they recover in the real world.
The Second Road an online community by and for people in recovery from addictions of all kinds.
Of Substance Blog, sponsored by ONDCP, allows citizens who are working hard everyday at the community level share their experiences with others across the world.
Join Together Newsroom, shares news, insights and resources for the addiction field.
Recovery Radio, Recovery Radio blog covers news and views.
Daily Reflections, Online Blog of Reflections by A.A. Members for A.A. Members.
Addiction Recovery Blog, recovering alcoholics and addicts can share their experiences.
Brochures, Pamphlets, Fact Sheets, Books
Know Your Rights, brochure 
Conozca sus Derechos, Spanish language
Know Your Rights Manual for Sponsors and Trainers
Coverage for Addition and Mental Illness: Now It is the Law
tip sheet for consumers explaining the impact of the new parity law on
coverage for addiction treatment
Advocacy with Anonymity A
brochure from Faces and Voices of Recovery that provides members of Twelve
Step programs information on how to get involved and still stay within the
boundaries set forth by the Twelve Traditions
Recovery Bill of Rights from Faces and Voices of Recovery
Is AA for You? A collection of about 50 pamphlets in PDF format. Click on left links.
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, online
Narcotics Anonymous - Little White Booklet
Narcotics Anonymous - Basic Text
An Introduction to Mutual Support Groups for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Managing post-surgical pain for those in addiction recovery
Relapse and Craving, an Alcohol Alert from NIAAA
Understanding Relapse, an Article by Terence T. Gorski
Does Relapse Mean Treatment Failure? Article by Terence T. Gorski
Levels of Relapse Warning Signs, an Article by Terence T. Gorski
How To Develop A Relapse Prevention Plan, an Article by Terence T. Gorski
Adolescent Relapse Prevention, an Article by Terence T. Gorski
Spirituality and Relapse, an Article by Terence T. Gorski
Prescription Drugs And Relapse, an Article by Terence T. Gorski
Relapse Prevention, an article from Dual Recovery Online
Recovery and Relapse
from the White Booklet, Narcotics Anonymous
Relapse Prevention - Chapter 9 of Treatment for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
Pathways to Healing and Recovery: Perspectives from Individuals with Histories of
Alcohol and Other Drug Problems
SAMHSA report
What Happens After
Treatment? Sobriety is a beginning...Al-Anon can help
What Can I Say to Get you to Stop? Hazelden publication
Intervention may be the nudge people need to get help, a Hazelden publication
Friends can have real clout when it comes to intervention, a Hazelden publication
Media
12StepRadio.com. The Internet-based programming broadcasts 24/7.
Recovery Radio, recovery audio in an "on demand" streaming-media format.
Recovery Radio Podcasts, Twelve Step speakers and workshops for people in recovery.
Recovery Talk Network, provides listeners with a wide array of individuals who share their experiences in recovery or in dealing with recovery issues, and can be listened to online at www.crntalk.com.
Road Recovery- helping young people battle addiction and other adversities by harnessing the influence of entertainment industry professionals who have confronted similar crises and now wish to share their experience, knowledge, and resources.
Take 12 Recovery Radio Internet Radio that heals. The most diverse Recovery Radio Talk Show on the air today.
Magazines/Columns
Renew Magazine is a digital and hard copy magazine created to support, inform and inspire the recovery community. Renew Magazine brings together recovery and lifestyle experts to inspire you to embrace recovery as a new and better way of life. Charge for subscription.
It’s all in the Journey is a recovery publication
dedicated to showing someone still suffering how we did it; to teach
those in recovery; to let family members, and the general public, know
that treatment for addictions is available to everybody.
Beyond Addiction is a weekly column written by William C. Moyers.
Recovery Today Online! features the latest topics in research, treatment, professional interests, training and employment needs in the recovery field.
Recovery Solutions Magazine is dedicated to bringing cutting edge information and offer insight to readers and their loved ones about the disease of addiction by providing practical tips on how to win the battle against drugs through scientific knowledge of addiction and offering wisdom from real people who have discovered their own unique ways to conquer the disease of addiction.
AAGrapevine .org, the International Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Addiction Treatment Magazine Current Topics in Addiction Treatment.
Rise is a magazine written by and for parents involved in the child welfare system. Many of the stories are about recovery and reunification.
"Even though I've been sober a number of years, I still work my program 'one day at a time'. I will always be in Recovery, I will never be recovered. I firmly believe I have to continue to go to meetings regularly and be there for that new member that walks through the door as I did some years ago. Alcoholism is an equal opportunity illness. It spares nobody. No matter what race, creed or color, we are vulnerable. I feel very fortunate to have found sobriety."
For information and referral, Call
1-866-242-4111, ISAIC's Help Line, or email.