One of my "normal" friends asked me this once. The answer seemed pretty obvious to me at the time. "It saved my life! What's not to love about that?" "Yes", she said, "But, how? How does going to a bunch of meetings save your life?"It was then that I realized that unless you have walked through t...
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Oct
23
2017
The United States is in the midst of a trend of drug legalization, and at any given time, you can likely look around to see a new legislation supporting legalized cannabis in almost any given state. At the same time, the increasing prevalence and acceptance of legalized marijuana is leading to in...
Oct
18
2017
When I tell people I meet that I am grateful to be an addict, they look at me like I have three heads. And I get that. If someone told me that during my early sobriety, I would have thought they were nuts.When I first realized that I was addicted to heroin, I was devastated. I was only 29 years o...
Oct
10
2017
I had been sober for three years when he walked out the door. He literally just got up in the middle of a television program, and without saying a word, he walked out the door and never came back.We hadn't even had an argument.Seven years earlier, I developed an addiction to prescription pain kil...
Oct
04
2017
Most people have heard of tough love. While it originated in the medical and addiction treatment communities, tough love has become synonymous for any instance where persons with authority are strict and use either punishment or ostracization to enforce something. In the addiction and rehabilitat...
Sep
28
2017
It's tough being a female addict. Heavy drinking is often viewed more negatively in women than in men, women tend to progress faster in their addictions than men do, and we don't recover at the same rate. In fact, a study completed in Germany shows that alcoholism is twice as fatal for women than...
Sep
20
2017
I got sober in January, right after New Year's. I planned it that way, figuring it would be a little easier to wait until all the holiday parties were out of the way. I would have my last hurrah and then not face any temptation until St. Patrick's Day. (I'm Irish, so it's expected that I enjoy so...
Sep
12
2017
I have experienced anxiety for almost as long as I can remember.When I was six, I got very sick, and I almost died. While steroids saved my life, they also made me blow up like a balloon. I became a target for bullies.By high school, I had found my place. The anxiety never completely left me, tho...
Sep
05
2017
Most Americans drink. In fact, based on studies by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, more than 86% of all Americans drink at least occasionally. A further 26% of Americans regularly binge drink with the intent of getting drunk. If you occasionally, or not so occasionally, in...
Aug
30
2017
I didn't think it was possible to be more of a failure than I already was until I relapsed. What I didn't understand is that recovery doesn't change the fact that I am an addict, and often times, relapse is part of the process.For the first few days, it was my little secret. It was summer, and si...
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