NATIONAL RECOVERY MONTH: STOPPING THE “DIRT BAG” STEREOTYPE – Thursday Thought
REFLECTION National Recovery Month celebrates recovery in the lives of those who have suffered from substance use disorder. It also helps to create better understanding that substance use disorder is a disease. This disease not only disrupts the life...
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NATIONAL RECOVERY MONTH: STOPPING THE “DIRT BAG” STEREOTYPE
National Recovery Month. Definitely something to celebrate.
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RIDE OR DIES – Thursday Thought
Reflection Your ride or dies are the friends that always have your back no matter what. Their loyalty, humor and insight companion you along the rough road of the family systems disease of substance use disorder. In the midst of an...
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RIDE OR DIES
You know exactly who they are. Your ride or dies. The friends you can count on no matter what. You couldn’t possibly survive the storm surge of an addiction crisis without them. Their loyalty stays closer to you than your own...
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SETTING BOUNDARIES ON THE WAY TO PARADISE – THURSDAY THOUGHT
REFLECTION Setting healthy boundaries in the chaos of a family addiction crisis is a difficult thing to do. The very nature of a substance use disorder enmeshes a family in a tangle of emotions, decisions and regrets that can...
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SETTING BOUNDARIES ON THE WAY TO PARADISE
Our 25th wedding anniversary arrived when our 19-year-old son was living at the Y, unemployed, heavily abusing alcohol and opioids, and raising a lot of hell a few miles from our home.
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You Make A Difference: 8/31/19 Overdose Awareness Day. – Thursday Thought
Reflection In the last decade overdose deaths have doubled. More than 70,000 died of drug overdose deaths in 2017. Nearly 70 percent of those deaths were due to synthetic opioids. International Overdose Awareness Day was started 18 years ago,...
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You Make A Difference: 8/31/19 Overdose Awareness Day.
This Saturday, August 31 marks a day we all would like to eradicate from our calendar: International Overdose Awareness Day. It is a globally recognized event to remember those who have lost their lives to substance use disorder, raise awareness...
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No Gain In Shame – Thursday Thought
Reflection Shame is a by- product of the unpredictable and difficult nature of the disease of addiction. Families fighting to help a loved one establish recovery need to recognize shame for what it is: a self- defeating emotion that...
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No Gain in Shame
And in an effort for full disclosure, I combed through those years writing a book with my son about our family’s journey together as he struggled with opioid and alcohol addiction to ultimately establish long-term recovery.
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