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AI Recovery, Coping With Urges, and Living Big!

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Can AI be a Pathway to Recovery?

SMART believes there are multiple pathways to recovery...but does that go as far as including the use of intelligent retrieval technology, aka artificial intelligence? According to Zachary Gidwitz, CEO and Cofounder of the company Open Recovery, the answer is a resounding yes.

In this podcast, Zachary shares his personal recovery journey and how he ended up as part of a team that birthed Kai, the AI-powered recovery assistant that is now busy interacting with human individuals seeking recovery.

At this point Kai is focused on 12-Step methodology, but Open Recovery is collaborating with SMART to provide information and resources to expand Kai's understanding that our self-empowered, practical recovery tools are a powerful pathway to change.

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INQUIRING MINDS...
Can generative AI provide safe and accurate answers to questions about substance use?

This article from The Recovery Research Institute reports on a study of AI tools like Chat-GPT and their potential in answering real-world alcohol and drug-related questions.

Blog
Don't "Four-ize" Your Thoughts

Guest blog by SMART Facilitator Rick Kuplinski

Responsible people keep a fire extinguisher in their homes, along with operating smoke alarms and maybe a sprinkler system. All of this to deal with the possibility of an active fire. But responsible people also take care in myriad ways to prevent fires from happening in the first place.

This is analogous to coping with urges if one thinks of triggers as sparks; thoughts potentially as combustible fuel; and urges as the resulting fire. Triggers, the sparks, happen randomly in reaction to the things that remind us of our addictive behavior...

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Podcast
Living a Big and Beautiful Life

Dr. Samantha Harte was managing a busy life in recovery when tragedy struck close to home, causing her to question her whole approach to living. She decided to expand her world view and dedicate herself to creating a recovery pathway that is uniquely her own and draws upon multiple approaches to living a big and beautiful life.

Recently Samantha wrote a memoir called Breaking the Circuit that tells the story of her substance misuse, living with a mentally ill mother, facing a variety of trauma and eventually committing herself to a self-empowered recovery journey.

Her mission is to elevate the fitness and wellness space so that all those who are seeking a pathway to a more healthy and balanced life can consider her lived experience and expertise and potentially find their own best life.

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SMART Recovery USA’s National Conference will be held April 3-4, 2025 at the Hilton Charlotte Airport Hotel in Charlotte, NC.

Registration Information Here!

This year's theme is Building Communities of Empowerment. Building on last year's conference, we intend to highlight how SMART can be at the forefront of building communities of empowerment at the local level. We have an unprecedented opportunity to make the promise of multiple pathways a reality today in more and more diverse communities.

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