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The Water Wagon is Just Transportation Between Drunks You have a love-hate relationship with alcohol and other drugs. You love planning your next big party and the taste of your favorite cocktail. You love how you feel on top of the world when you’re high. However, you hate running out of booze or drugs. You can’t […]

Shame, Guilt and Remorse Accompany Addiction You fed your addiction and now you’re feeling the shame, remorse, and guilt. It might be just the fact that you drank or used again last night. You’ve been trying to quit but the temptation was too much for you to withstand. Or maybe you did something that you […]

How to Survive New Years Eve What’s the biggest party of the year? New Year’s Eve! If you are in recovery from alcoholism or other forms of addiction, wanting to stay clean and sober, how do you survive New Years Eve? No Fun for The Addict or Alcoholic While New Year’s Eve is a celebration […]

Prison of Addiction – The Key is Willingness… You may hear the saying that the only outcome for those suffering from addiction is jail, institution, or death. That can not possibly apply to you, can it? Chances are good that if you’re reading this post, that it does. Social drinkers or pot smokers are not engaging in internet searches on […]

Excuses To Drink Are Easy To Find I’m an adult and in charge of my own life: if I want to use drugs and alcohol, I will. If you had my life, you’d drink, too. No one understands me. This is who I am – I can’t help it. I’m a victim: poor me, pour […]

Hiding Drinking – Sign of a Real Problem Many people struggling with addiction think that if they’re hiding drinking , they’re hiding their addiction. Stashes of alcohol Are you someone who hides alcohol? Do you have a bottle stashed behind the laundry soap or the cereal on the top shelf? Or perhaps you keep a flask […]

Spending Christmas In Rehab? It may your best idea yet! We wish you a Merry Christmas. Bah Humbug! That’s a sentiment expressed by many people at this time of year. The pressures can be unbearable for such a joyous time, even more so for addicts and alcoholics, even if they are sober in recovery. But Why? […]

Rehab To Go, or Not To Go? How many times have you made up your mind that you are going to rehab? But then the doubt: rehab – to go or not to go? That might sound like a silly question, but many people have decided to go to rehab only to change their minds once […]

Do your loved ones support you going to rehab? Usually, family and loved are grateful you are making  the decision for healing in your life. It is likely no surprise to them that you need rehab, nevertheless, there are sometimes reasons why they might be against you going to rehab. You may need some assistance in the process […]