A person seeking help for addiction and guidance about how to stay clean from their addictive behaviours will have a wide variety of options to choose from. However, most do not realise that in order to stay clean once out of treatment, a daily programme of recovery is needed such as a Twelve Step Programme to keep them present and aware.

Eating disorders have become quite a well known problem, with millions of people affected. Eating disorders are a disease that is progressive and incurable and the same type of disease as any other addiction. The sufferer is trapped in a helpless cycle of obsessive and compulsive behavior and unable to break free of the need to escape feelings and control.

Addiction help and treatment methods, Oasis Centre, South Africa, treating addiction with therapy, healthy lifestyle behaviour change and a 12 Step programme.

A 12 Step recovery programme is a method of achieving abstinence from obsessive and compulsive behaviour by working a programme exploring the 12 Steps.