SMART Recovery and the AVRT of Rational Recovery deals directly with stopping active addiction alone. Once drinking/drugging has been arrested then one can decide if they want to work on personal issues.

When I first entered addiction recovery, the recovery modality I was exposed to had me working on everything under the sun regarding my life. It was confusing to me because I just wanted to stop using drugs. Unfortunately the constant confusion caused me to relapse time after time.

With SMART and AVRT I was able to focus on stopping the drug use and then I could evaluate my life to see what changes I would like to make or not. To me that was a simpler process than examining my entire life wile trying to stop drug use.

I do acknowledge that positively changing how I interact with the world and others in it makes life less stressful. As I understand that stress can be a big reason that relapses back into active addiction happen.

Here are some links to the recovery resources I use for addiction treatment:

SMART Tools and Articles

Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction. By Jack Trimpey.
(Google book preview including the Addiction Voice Recognition Technique or the AVRT)