Talking with a loved one about their drinking or drug use can seem impossible, but it can also help plant a seed of recovery.
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5 Ways to Support Your Loved One During Recovery
Support from friends and family is crucial to the person’s success in recovery. It may be difficult to know exactly how to provide that support in a time of crisis.
Gloria Harrison: True Recovery Is the Healing of the Human Spirit
Although Gloria experienced trauma, violence, and institutionalized oppression, she never gave up hope. Now, in recovery, she is a counselor and staunch recovery advocate.
Chapter 6: The Thrush’s Song
Shauna Shepard, who works as a receptionist in the local health clinic, visited with me on my back porch. She shared why she drifted into substance abuse, and how she struggled to get — and remain — sober.
Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss
The last time David Magee saw his son alive, William told him to write their family’s story in the hopes of helping others. Days later, David found William dead from an accidental drug overdose.
Addiction and Estrangement
Remarkably, a tense relationship with a sister or brother in adolescence may contribute to substance abuse.
The End
With each sip I take, my brain and body scream “you freaking alcoholic,” and I know at that moment I can no longer do this.
Helping Your Child Through Difficult Times
All too often when we look beyond a child’s drinking or drug use we discover their struggle to manage intolerable thoughts, feelings or memories is a core issue that needs treatment.
No Map or Compass
The feeling of that first sip changed me into everything I was not: confident, brave, careless, fearless and most importantly, accepted by all the people I looked up to.
Failing
Would we be able to reach across the distance—and our failings—to touch each other, to smile?