7 Steps to be a “Foodie”: Nutrition After Rehab Nutrition after rehab is an important part of a healthy lifestyle during recovery. People who use and abuse substances generally don’t get proper nutrition to fuel their bodies. The drug itself affects your body...
4 Ways Addiction Can Cost You Your Happiness Addiction Drug and alcohol addiction can provide temporary feelings of pleasure, but their long-term consequences are quite the opposite. Aside the cost of acquiring drugs and potential legal consequences, addiction can...
A Comprehensive Approach to Drug and HIV Recovery The use of injection drugs accounts for roughly 10 percent of the HIV cases in America each year, according to statistics published online at AIDS.gov. This means that if you’re addicted to a chemical substance...
Every addict or alcoholic who gets clean and sober carries baggage with them. For most of us, that baggage is internal; for some of us, it’s visible to others in the form of unwanted tattoos. Gang tattoos, tattoos that represent past relationships, tattoos that...
As your body heals from addiction, what you see in the mirror will change in ways that might surprise you. Learn how one man learned to cope. I do not remember much about the weeks before I got sober, but I have one enduring image in my brain. I am standing in front...
When I went to my first 12 Step meeting, decades ago, a speaker mentioned that she didn’t need therapy or medication anymore. All she needed was the steps, her higher power and her sponsor. She no longer needed extra help in recovery. I was on meds and in therapy at...
