Introducing the iPromises Recovery Companion for iPhone

The iPromises Recovery Companion offers a powerful tool to help build one of the most important elements of addiction recovery: a community of like-minded peers who understand the joys and challenges of recovery. iPromises allows you to easily contact your sponsor and friends in recovery, keep a calendar of meetings and service, get a daily positive message, and track your accomplishments, challenges, moods, and triggers.

Those in recovery can use the iPromises Recovery Companion to monitor their triggers and be alerted to call their sponsor if they choose a trigger. If they choose "ok" the alert automatically dials their sponsor.

Users can create a meeting list easily —right while they are sitting in the meeting! The geo-positioning feature allows you to open a new meeting entry and click "use this location." The iPhone locates the address and inputs it into the meeting entry. Add a name, day, and time and you have stored a new meeting.

Traveling in recovery can be challenging. Where do you find a meeting? The iPromises Recovery Companion has a travel section that geo-locates you and gives you a list of local AA offices. Choose an office and click to dial them. You can get local meeting information from the source.

The visual journal progress graph allows users to note their moods, challenges, and accomplishments over time. As users add new moods to their calendar, the bars begin to show a pattern—Are you angry more often than not? Do you have a resentment you can’t seem to overcome? As the bars on the graph grows, you can be alerted to a growing problem—or a growing success!

"I highly recommend that anyone in recovery try the iPromises Recovery Companion. It helps you formalize your recovery and recognize that it is a daily process," says Dr. Shari Corbitt, Senior Executive Director of Promises Treatment Centers.

If you would like to learn more about the iPromises Recovery Companion, please visit http://ipromises.org. If you have an iTunes account and would like to download the app to iTunes on your computer, go to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/promises-recovery-companion/id375791277?mt=8. You can also download the app directly to your iPhone by accessing the App Store and searching for "iPromises." We look forward to your reactions, feedback, and suggestions as we plan to continually improve the app over the coming year.