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The Unexpected Death of a Young Man
— 25 years ago I built my home. Whereas many people move every 5-10 years, I’ve never felt the need to move. I felt the desire once but never the need. My house was the first house built on our...
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How One Man Found Self-Acceptance in the Face of Addiction and HIV
Embed from Getty Images — Hi. My name is Jason, and I’m an alcoholic and an addict. It took me a long time to be able to admit that. It took me even longer to say it clearly, boldly, and without...
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5 Ways to Teach Your Kids About Drugs & Alcohol
There’s no doubt your kids will grow up faster than you expect. You’ll probably have to have some tricky discussions with them before you’re fully prepared. Talking openly, however, is the best way to...
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Preventing Addiction: 5 Ways to ‘Get High’ With Your Kids
by Greg Boudle Everyone needs to feel EXTRA alive sometimes. I’ve been thinking lately about the term “getting high”, as it is so commonly used in our culture today. As a student of NLP...
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Relapse (The Spoken Word Poetic Prayer of a Man in Recovery)
– Embed from Getty Images – Relapse I stand before you a humbled man I have failed yet again; I make no excuses God is my judge Lord forgive me of my sins He provided a way out of every temptation but...
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Sentencing Reform: Drug Addiction [Video]
Explore a viable and scalable alternative solution to arresting people struggling with drug addiction. Through the narration of renown physician and addiction specialist Dr. Gabor Maté, we take a look...
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Hard Working Fathers and Drug Addict Sons
Embed from Getty Images — Suppose you gained everything in the world and lost your soul. Was it worth it?– Billy Graham I had my suicide all planned out. At 50 years old I reached that mid-life point...
View ArticleMelania Voices Concern for Youth as Donald Imperils Youth with Impunity
Embed from Getty Images Melania Trump promised during the presidential campaign that “if I am privileged enough to became your First Lady,” her work would focus on ending social media bullying. She...
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There’s No ‘Dick’ in Addiction (Or Is There?)
Embed from Getty Images — Life started out pretty good for me, growing up in a small town in Connecticut. We lived in a rural area where my daily playmates were my sister and the two girls who lived...
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I Am a Man. I Am Afraid. I Am OK.
— Being a father of addicted children can be a lonely journey sometimes. Most of the support groups out there are grossly under-represented by men and being vulnerable does not come easy for this...
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I Thought Emotional Pain Wasn’t Something a Man was Supposed to Feel, So I...
— Growing up, it seemed like there wasn’t anything in the world that my father couldn’t do, and he was good at everything he tried. Like most young boys, I thought my father was the strongest and best...
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The Gym Taught Me These Three Important Things About Recovery From Addiction
— Over the past couple months, I’ve been hitting the gym every day, usually twice. Except two, maybe three, days I have consistently worked out every single day. What I didn’t know when I signed up for...
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How I Used Stoicism to Battle My Addiction to Drugs and Alcohol
— There I found myself, withdrawing from heroin, unemployed, divorced, and laying restlessly in a twin-size bed in the small room I shared with a stranger. This men’s structured-sober-living house...
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Before Recovering From My Drug Addiction, I First had to Accept It
— A few years before finally finding real sobriety and recovery, I made several attempts to stop using drugs and alcohol. During one struggle, mostly trying to save my failing marriage, I made a pledge...
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It Doesn’t Matter if You Think Addiction is Not a Disease
— Addiction is defined as a disease by most medical associations, including the American Medical Association. It has been considered such for several decades. Even so, many people dispute this. So what...
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A Field Trip to Prison
If you’re not familiar with the content of Scared Straight, it follows juvenile delinquents as they spend time with actual inmates in prison. The idea being that these crazy kids would get scared...
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Finding My Higher Power
A lot of the work I do at the recovery center centers around spirituality. One really cannot do 12-Step work without touching on the subject. To some, this is a turn-off. They feel it suggests that...
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Here Is How It Starts: Drug Addiction
— Drug use is a difficult topic to tackle. Often times what begins out of curiosity but has the potential to take a turn for the worst. For the most part, people begin using drugs at age 21 or younger,...
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Hospitals Must Adapt so Infants Can ‘Room-in’ with Opioid-Dependent Mothers
Mary Malebranche, University of Calgary Opioid use in pregnancy has risen dramatically in recent years, along with the opioid epidemic within the general Canadian population. One study found an...
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Pinpointing Drug Addiction: Nature or Nurture?
— Drug addiction has long been associated with middle-aged, violent men who made some mistakes to lead them to their situation. And while maybe it’s true that males are at a higher risk of developing...
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