Speaker Talk: SMART Recovery’s Self-Empowering Approach

SMART was established because many people were looking for a self-empowering, science-based, progress-oriented (harm reduction oriented) and holistic approach for resolving or reducing addictive problems. Although both 12-step and SMART appear to work equally well, many people do not align with a powerlessness, spiritual, abstinence-only, and substance use only approach. Presentation will review SMART’s approach and history, and provide examples of how the self-empowering approach can be used in daily life across the full range of addictive behaviors.