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Those who have died of overdose are not nameless, faceless statistics of the epidemic of the disease of substance use disorder.  They are people whose lives ended with heartbreak. They were someone’s son, daughter, sister, brother, grandchild, father, mother,...

Hurricane Henri’s roar through New England was a bit of a bumpy ride.  It could have been a lot worse. The takeaway from the storm is the Girl Scout motto: Be Prepared. In the days before Henri hit my husband...

Regret. A completely useless emotion. But it can be a real contender to knock out our peace of mind in the family systems illness of addiction. Regret can drive our thoughts like a hamster wheel with all the would haves...

One of the greatest gifts my mother ever gave to me was her 12-Step daily devotional book that she read every morning for 40 years. My mother got the book in August 1975 when she began a 12-Step way...

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe Ruth There was a point in our family’s ongoing struggle with the systems illness of addiction that everything was going sideways. Our son had been to treatment and...