Healthy Habits for Long-Term Sobriety So you did it. You made the decision and stuck to your guns. You are SOBER now. Well, alright! Me too! I have some sober time now and feel much better. I go to a lot of recovery meetings and see all sorts of people come and go. Many peopleRead more
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
Breaking the Drug Addiction Cycle: How One Woman Found Sobriety Trina, a 27-year-old woman from Alaska, grew up with alcoholism and drug addiction on both sides of her family. She tried many things to stay sober, including a move to California. She could not find relief from her drug addiction until she found a homeRead 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
