Category: Addiction Recovery

Although the experience of struggling with drug or alcohol addiction and abuse is far from uncommon, those on the outside of a recovery center often have a few misunderstandings about

Spirituality can be defined in many ways… Regardless of how you choose to define spirituality, it is always beneficial to increase your spirituality. Spirituality can refer to a person’s quest

If you haven’t tried it before, you’ve likely heard about it before: Heroin and cocaine. Benzos and alcohol. Ecstasy followed by marijuana. Some muddled cocktail of prescription drugs. Out of necessity

As I’m sure many of you know, opiates have become an absolute epidemic in the United States. The opiate epidemic is not something that should be taken lightly. It’s safe

There is no phase of recovery more important and more crucial than the beginning stage; it is only when we accept that we have an addiction that we can begin

I know first hand how scary it can be to go to rehab for an addiction. Knowing that you no longer will be able to use your drug of choice to

Am I addicted? You may want to think about your uncle, aunt, friends, or coworkers. You know they have a problem and you wonder, “Are they addicted?” That’s a wonderful

If I only knew then what I know now. Oh how much easier it would have been…If I could go back and change how this all played out I wouldn’t.

During my first year of recovery, I buried my nose in whatever literature my sponsor handed me. It was pretty basic. The Big Book and a 12-step Workbook. I did