Early estimates suggest that 2017 is the deadliest year yet for drug overdoses in America. Some 72,000 people died—that’s 200 people a day or one death every eight minutes. This means drug overdoses in 2017 killed more people than guns, car crashes, or HIV/AIDS ever...
Staying Stopped: Is Relapsing the End of the World? Is relapse to be expected or rather a signal that there is something missing for the alcoholic or addict trying to get well? So what happened? We’ve seen it all before—people can, and do, relapse at any length of...
How can we as newly sober people deal with the abundance of feelings and emotions that surface, seemingly from out of nowhere? Left without our usual ways of coping, how do we get to the other side without using or acting out? Many of us in...
For many who find themselves struggling with addiction, the primary focus of their recovery is to simply stop drinking or drugging. After all, this is a gargantuan task for anyone who has ever had a chemical dependency, and taking the steps to prepare for this...