Tag Archives: Drug Addiction

Turn Your Mess Into Your Message

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As a person who has gone through the depths of alcohol or drug addiction, you have lived a long time through turmoil. Once you entered recovery, your life began to turn around. Sobriety often helps someone more clearly view just how messed up things were during their darker days. Memories of missed opportunities, relationships that […]

Why You Never Have to Feel This Way Again

Why You Never Have to Feel This Way Again

Plain and simple, drug and alcohol addiction is painful. Not only does the physical aspect make a person experience withdrawal and self-infliction, but mental and spiritual torture can become extremely difficult to manage. Someone who battles addiction will beat themselves up to the point of using and drinking until their bodies can no longer handle […]

Will Going to Rehab Finally Cure My Addiction?

Will Going to Rehab Finally Cure My Addiction?

One of the misconceptions of finally receiving the help you need to get sober is that now that you are sober, you are cured of drug and alcohol use. What you need to understand is there is no cure from addiction. Once you have an addiction, you will always have an addiction – similar to […]

Points to Stop Enabling Your Loved One

Points to Stop Enabling Your Loved One

Having a loved one suffer from addiction is one of the most difficult things to endure. Although they may not be sick in the traditional sense that many think of cancer, heart attack, or diabetes, they are still sick from all the symptoms that addiction brings about. What separates addiction from other illnesses is that […]

Why Substance Abuse is a Hostage Situation

Why Substance Abuse is a Hostage Situation

Stopping the abuse of drugs and alcohol is something more complicated than most people are aware of. Those who are not addicted have the luxury of stopping and starting whenever they want. Those who are addicted cannot stop once they start because of the allergy of the body and the obsession of the mind that […]

Why Knowing the Problem Does Not Solve It

Why Knowing the Problem Does Not Solve It

Recovery is an action program that requires effort. The reality is once we conclude that we have a problem with drinking or using, this does not mean that we can just quit because we want to. If this were the case, we would have stopped long ago. People who get sober without any help are […]

San Diego Family Fights Against the Battle of Addiction After Son’s Death

San Diego Family Fights Against the Battle of Addiction After Son’s Death

It can be hard to know what to do when you see your son struggling with addiction. They may be disappointing you in neglecting what used to be important to them to do drugs, lying to you to acquire drugs, or committing crimes to ensure they get the money for drugs. It is not until […]

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