It’s getting closer to the end of 2020, and COVID is still raging stronger than we expected back when this all started back in March.…
It’s become particularly evident lately that we live in a country which places an exaggerated value on individual choice. The mindset has reached the point…
One step forward, two steps back: we’ve now passed the three-month mark of widespread mandated social isolation. Unfortunately, COVID cases continue to climb as we slowly reopen the economy. So…
Extended solitude changes the way your brain functions. After several months of quarantine, many recovering addicts find themselves returning to old destructive thought patterns that…
Very few people expected quarantine to last as long as it has. The news came about pretty suddenly, and within the same week, states were…
Getting too caught up in one’s own head is a pretty common force of habit for people who suffer with chemical dependence. Sometimes those thoughts…
Getting treatment is hard enough during normal times. Addicts seeking recovery face so many barriers: dual diagnosis, moving through the stages of change, financial difficulties……
The mind of a recovering addict inevitably wanders to some pretty dark places. That dark path becomes steeper without the reassuring anchors of friends, the…
People in the US are facing a tough period of lockdown as we try to flatten the curve of the coronavirus. As state and county…
I wouldn’t be sober if it wasn’t for _____. For thousands of people, that blank would immediately be filled with the 12 Steps. While the…