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 [...]
You may think that when one person becomes an addict, it is only their problem. The truth is that when you have a close-knit family, your problems become their problems. The movie “Rachel’s Getting Married” [...]
Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse are just a few examples of musicians who were celebrated for their art but succumbed to their drug use. Some musicians are able to [...]
Binge drinking is when you drink a large amount of drinks all at once, normally at parties with a group of people cheering you on. High functioning alcoholism is an uncontrollable craving to alcohol and [...]
Gambling addiction can be hard to tell others as you never want others to know that you are not in control. You are afraid of the judgment you may receive from those you love and [...]
It can be shameful for celebrities to let people know that they have an addiction. They already feel like their life is no longer private and they do not want to let anyone down by [...]
TED Talks give speakers the opportunity to open express that they had struggles with addiction. They also give speakers the opportunity to tell people what helped them recover. Here are two TED Talks of speakers [...]
There is still a stigma towards opioid addiction which prevents others from getting help if they are afraid to talk about it. Using film as a medium to bring attention to a disease that people [...]
Speakers use TEDTalks to tell their stories of addiction for more people to know about it. Addiction is a complex issue and a lot of people are afraid to talk about it. Here are two [...]
Triggers to relapse is anything that can make you want to give up your sobriety and fall back to bad habits. It is normal when you first start sobriety to slip back to abusive substances [...]
