Coming to recovery, we have a fair few ducks to align before we can feel that we are doing well: we need to detox, we need to complete a treatment program, we need to find a sponsor, go to meetings, and start working the steps. These often feel like loose ends that need to be…
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As alcoholics, we suffer from an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind. Our problem lies not in our drinking but in our thinking, for our thinking is completely warped and nothing ever satisfies us. Most of what we do is done in excess but despite our every effort we are perpetually…
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It is extraordinarily difficult to be grateful for much while in active addiction. Our worlds shrink, our lives don’t make much sense, all our problems are everybody else’s fault, and nothing goes as we plan. We are constantly met with disappointment, and develop innumerable resentments as a result of our fear, anger, and sadness. Then…
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The first months of sobriety are marked by feelings of improved health, new friendships and activities, achievement and accomplishment. The once small and limited worlds of our addiction have begun to open up around us, and we can hardly find fault with anything. That’s how great we feel, now that we’re taking care of ourselves.…
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Addictive Tendencies Chronic insomnia and other sleep problems may be a pathway by which problematic substance use develops in individuals predisposed to addiction. Drugs of all kinds are abused by people with addictive tendencies—from NyQuil to benzodiazapines, to alcohol, to opiates. Those with insomnia and other sleep disturbances may use drugs and alcohol to self-medicate, but…
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Stop the presses, the record companies would like to remove the “drugs” from “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll”! Today, the once glamorized lifestyle of the singer-songwriter drug addict is now looked down upon more and more, especially by those financially invested in the output and success of such artists. Some music labels and managers in the…
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Compromising Situation We’ve all been in the same compromising situation before, sometimes more than once: our clothes smell like skunk, our eyes are red and we eat every piece of food in sight; our pupils are huge, we can’t stop waving our hands through the air in amazement and Phish is playing on repeat on…
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