Friday, December 28, 2018
7 Reasons Not to Bring Your 12-Step Program Home for the Holidays | The Fix
7 Reasons Not to Bring Your 12-Step Program Home for the Holidays | The Fix: Shouldn’t you help your sister address her character defects? Isn’t it time to take your father’s inventory? And wouldn’t it be perfect to make amends to your mom at a family dinner?
The Empty Chair Campaign Highlights Loss and Sorrow Caused by the Drug War | The Fix
The Empty Chair Campaign Highlights Loss and Sorrow Caused by the Drug War | The Fix: The families of people incarcerated, distanced, or deceased because of the drug war live year-round with the unique suffering of loving someone whose pain you do not have the power to heal. During the holidays, that loss rises to the surface.
Christmas, Booze, and the Brain | The Fix
Christmas, Booze, and the Brain | The Fix: I have seen a lot of recovery-themed blog posts around about the particular challenges facing us addicts at this time of year and have thought about writing something, however I have hesitated so far because there’s already a lot of excellent posts about how to cope etc, and I’m not sure I have much to add. So I’ll just tell you about my experience.
Food Fight | The Fix
Food Fight | The Fix: I recovered from heroin addiction in the early 1970s. I used for 3 years as a teenager, went into residential treatment in NY for 18 months, and 'graduated' the program in the summer of '73. I've spent the last 46 years in successful remission with zero relapses. In my opinion, I was lucky to live in a program run by GREAT people, in an unconventional (by today's standards) treatment environment that ceased to exist long ago. I was also lucky that public funding was readily available back then, and insurance had nothing to do with the equation. If you needed an
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