Are You Setting Yourself Up for Relapse?
A relapse isn’t usually a spur-of-the-moment thing. By the time someone relapses, she has probably been thinking about it and working up to it for a while. A relapse can happen at any time, although [...]
4 Ways to Keep Your Child From Repeating Your Addiction Mistakes
If you’ve struggled with addiction, you know that it’s the absolute last thing you want your own child to experience. Unfortunately, the odds are stacked against you because the biggest predictor of addiction is having [...]
What to do with the Money You Save in Sobriety
Addiction is expensive. A cocaine habit, for example, can easily cost $100 a day. Even the cost of alcohol can add up as your tolerance grows and you drink every day. After getting sober, people [...]
Does the Disease Model of Addiction Make Recovery Harder?
AA has been arguing for decades that addiction is a disease and a recent poll shows that a slim majority of Americans now believe that addiction is a disease that requires treatment. Despite the popular [...]
Learning to Focus Without Adderall
People often have trouble focusing after quitting Adderall or other stimulants. Adderall, in particular, is abused as a productivity drug because it allows you to focus intensely for hours with no effort. This isn’t always [...]
Birth Order’s Effect On Addiction
Birth order does seem to affect personality to some degree. First-born children are typically more responsible and conscientious. They do better in school. They learn early on that they have to look out for someone [...]
Should Prisoners Get Addiction Medication?
Whether or not prisoners should receive medication assisted treatment, or MAT, while incarcerated is a contentious issue. Critics say that methadone and buprenorphine may be used to get high rather than treat addiction. Methadone in [...]
How a Victim Mentality Sabotages Addiction Recovery
A victim mentality is the belief that bad things are always happening to you through no fault of your own. You’re just the victim of someone else’s evil intentions, or maybe just the victim of [...]
Is it Safe to Use Cannabis Oil in Recovery?
Cannabis, especially extracts like CBD oil, are increasingly attracting attention for their therapeutic potential. 20 years ago, assertions like, “I need marijuana for my glaucoma” were typically met with a wink and a nod, but [...]
5 Roles Family Members Assume to Cope with Addiction
Addiction doesn’t only affect you. It affects everyone in your life, especially your family. Family members take on surprisingly predictable roles to cope with living with someone who struggles with addiction. These roles may help [...]