What Is Enabling? How Can I Stop It? Enabling: When we love someone, we want them to be safe and happy….especially our children and closest family. Anyone who cares about someone who struggles with addiction knows how hard it can be to stand by and watch them throw their lives away. They can continually makeRead more
Getting Sober Young: With Brian W. When you spend enough time in recovery meetings, you notice certain milestones that stand out when you start doing the math. In our Getting Sober Young series, we interview alcoholics who got sober before they hit the legal drinking age. Because relapse is so common in recovery, we exploreRead more
The Hidden Threat of Fentanyl According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), of the estimated 72,000 accidental drug overdose deaths in 2017 (a number that doubled in the past decade), 30,000 of them were related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (analogs are closely related drugs, so one example of a fentanyl analog is acetylRead more
“I Was 12 Years Old The First Time I Drank” Today I had the privilege of speaking to Richie a 24-year-old man, who grew up in southern California and is currently a technician in a Drug Addiction and Alcoholism Treatment Center. From a young age Richie struggled with self-esteem issues and anxiety, which in turnRead more
How Intensive Outpatient Treatment Prepared Me for Life Drug Detox. Drug Rehab. Intensive Outpatient Treatment. They have an almost negative connotation. Or at least they did to me for a while. To some of my acquaintances and even family, they are still a brow raising topic of discussion. More realistically, they’re not a voluntary topicRead more
