Recovery Blog for Addicts & Alcoholics

It’s estimated that 9 percent of Americans misuse illicit substances. But among the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community, that estimation is far...

What used to be a mystic practice shunned by many has become a significant part of addiction recovery. We’re talking about meditation—but is meditation for...

Addiction recovery is not easy. It’s a journey fraught with many challenges, and that’s why one of the major battles faced by those on the...

The misuse of prescription drugs has been on a sharp rise in the past few years—so much that it has become a serious public health...

Opioids are classified as any drug that binds to the opioid receptors in the central nervous system. Natural opiates are a subclass of opioids and...

One of the biggest mistakes made by recovering addicts and their loved ones is to think of drug rehab as an event. It’s not. Rehab...