How many times do you check your Instagram every day? More times than you’d like to admit? Me too. Social media takes up a huge…
A quick glimpse at the season’s commercials, billboards, or even your Instagram feed could tell you that summer and alcohol apparently go hand-in-hand. Whether it…
Loving someone who suffers with an active addiction is hard enough—but when you’re suffering along with that person, everything becomes more complicated. You’re painfully familiar…
Addicts in recovery, although they may have been clean for months or years, retain some level of awareness of the “addict brain.” This is the…
When dreading the thought of getting clean, a lot of the concern centers around the painful process of detox. Opiate withdrawal in particular is so…
Ever wondered why AA and NA meetings are full of donuts, cookies, coffee, and post-meeting chainsmokers? It’s not just a way to tempt newcomers into…
Going to rehab is hard enough. But actually staying sober afterward? Without any guidance? Aside from feeling a little daunting (one day at a time),…
It’s a sad tale, and unfortunately all too common. The stage: a relatively normal, functional girl grows up in a loving and secure home. She…
Working a program requires a unique head space. It’s like all normal decision-making gets turned upside down, and recovering addicts find themselves reeling and relying…
Remember the days before the opiate epidemic, when the world was drug-free and no one had addiction problems? Of course not. Substance abuse has been…