Alcohol Abuse and Eating Disorders, is there a genetic link?
Does Alcohol Abuse and Eating Disorders Share a Genetic Link? Tim Powers takes a look. Tim Powers – bald, tattooed, a business professional by day and rocker by night. Researchers have recently...
View ArticlePrenatal Cocaine Exposure: The Effects
Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: The Effects Prenatal cocaine exposure has significant effects on both behavior and brain functioning. In animal studies, prenatal cocaine exposure during development in the...
View ArticleWhat do you mean I can’t be high and sober at the same time?
M Is for Marijuana. A Is for Addict. I smoked pot daily for over 30 years—I had a successful career, was free of debt and had a good life. Then I started a family and that’s when my addiction caught up...
View Article12 steps. What are they?
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous Copyright © Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. The relative success of the A.A. program seems to be due to the fact that an alcoholic who no longer...
View ArticleThe holidays are coming, there is a gift with sobriety
Gift of sobriety Reprinted from December 23, 2002|By Mike Stickan Highland, Ind. — On Christmas morning 2001, I woke up and walked to my refrigerator and made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on...
View ArticlePornography Addiction Stages
Pornography Addiction Not everyone who sees porn will become addicted to it. Some will just come away with toxic ideas about women, sex, marriage and children. That kind of damage is bad enough. And...
View ArticleQuest for Sobriety…with Joe Budden
Joe Budden‘s battle with drugs is well-documented. Not only has the Slaughterhouse MC rhymed about it during the duration of his career, he put his struggles to get clean on front street as a star of...
View ArticleParents: How to Support Your Child’s Recovery from Addiction during (the end...
Originally posted on https://www.hazelden.org Parents: How to Support Your Child’s Recovery from Addiction during the Holidays The holiday season can be a minefield for youth in recovery—and for their...
View ArticleWe met in detox and went to NA together for years. Then he relapsed and got...
We met in detox and went to NA together for years. Then he relapsed and got locked up. Again. By Jaime Neptune It’s good he’s in jail. See, he thrives in jail. He’s clean in jail. He’s not waving a...
View ArticleWhat Happens to My Friends When I Recover?
What Happens to My Friends When I Recover? In a recent article, we’ve talked about how to support a friend in recovery—how to be there for a loved one struggling with addiction. But what happens...
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