July 15, 2019
First Responders and Hidden Addiction How we got ourselves addicted matters not; what is far more important is how to get ourselves […]
Oh, the pain….whether it comes from an accident, surgery, or other cause, the narcotic painkiller du jour prescribed by doctors far and […]
At first glance, the opioid epidemic seems like an insurmountable problem. According to the CDC, over 70,000 people died of drug overdoses […]
I drank because I could. Everybody else did: my parents, my friends, my brother and sisters, the people I worked with, the […]
They’re called supervised injection sites (SIS). You may know them by other terms too. These include drug consumption facilities (DCF), fix rooms, […]
I tried to put my phone down for a day last week. One day. Twenty-four hours. I failed. I thought I could […]
The opioid epidemic is perhaps the worst public health crisis the U.S. has ever endured. Each year, tens of thousands of individuals […]
According to researchers at Yale University, children may be one of the demographics that are most suffering from the opioid overdose epidemic. […]
First responders are people first. We think a lot like everybody else, act nearly the same, and have similar dreams and demons. […]
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why it took me so long to tackle my addictions. If I knew […]
A big part of avoiding sobriety is the fear that we will disappoint everybody who has come to know us as a […]
This thing, this pesky little thing, this thing we know we will have to face sooner or later, will not go away […]
We look back, us alcoholics, far more often than we look ahead. The past is where the fun is, the excitement and […]