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An enormous part of your loved one's recovery process and progress is built around them starting to pull themselves up by their own boot straps.
Lorraine Roe | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
We all need entourages in life. It's who we choose that makes the difference. Are we selecting people who nurture our egos or our souls? Are they people who are energy vampires or those who take responsibility for their words and deeds?
Michael Wolff | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
As it happens, whenever we follow an incest story at Newser it becomes the biggest story. The Phillips story is even bigger because it's not just an incest story but also a disputed incest story.
Heather Cabot | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living
Through a series of new stage productions in New York and elsewhere, mom bloggers and tweeters will step into the spotlight and tell motherhood like it is to a live audience.
Therese Borchard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
I chase the adrenaline rush, the dopamine high, that is akin to the buzz I get from smoking an entire cigarette in three puffs after staying away from lung rockets for a year or more.
Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
A system which punishes the poor for reacting unexceptionally to their poverty has created a criminal class which views prison as a sort of career.
Darren Littlejohn | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
We basically ask to speak to a certain voice and the participant puts on that hat. Some voices used typically have been The Controller, The Skeptic, The Protector, The Victim.
nytimes.com | CARA BUCKLEY | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
GARRISON, N.Y. -- It was shortly after 8 a.m. on a sun-drenched July day in this idyllic hamlet 50 miles north of Manhattan, and a hulk of a man named...
Carole Bennett | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living
To pretend this disease doesn't exist makes us as irresponsible as the alcoholic/addict. We can and are obligated do our part by using whatever means available to thwart the downward spiral.
Darren Littlejohn | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Thank you to all of the readers out there, especially those who contributed to the lively discussion about the efficacy of the 12 Steps. I'll continue...
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
The sad truth is that children who live with addicted parents get in the car with drunk moms and dads every day, just as Diane Schuler's children and nieces did the day they were killed.
Darren Littlejohn | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living
Dr. Drew: "Celebrities are significantly more narcissistic than MBA students and the general population. Female celebrities were... significantly more narcissistic than their male counterparts.
Gen. Barry McCaffrey | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
It has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Drug Courts work. Drug Courts significantly reduce drug abuse and crime and do so at less expense than any other justice strategy.
Press Association | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
hocking rises in the number of children treated in hospital after overdosing on cocaine were revealed today. In less than a decade the number of unde...
Nick Gillie | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
It is time to abandon "conventional" views that prison is the solution to addiction, and consider what the research says.
Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Jackson was an addict. He wanted relief and would get it in any name, place or method he could. It was, and is, a conspiracy of silence.
Carole Bennett | Posted 08.03.2009 | Living
Strong family structure guided in responsible, honest and/or religious values are no guarantee to thwart the constant barrage and temptation of a neighborhood with abundantly available drugs.
Gary Cohan | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment
How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?"
Kathie Kane-Willis | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
I was homeless, squatting in an abandoned building. I committed crimes to support my habit. I learned to scam and shoplift. I was arrested and convicted. But I was never offered treatment.
Huffington Post/CBS | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
UPDATE: In the first high-level talks between the countries in many years, senior U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke briefly met with Iran's deputy forei...
Victor Capoccia | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
We cannot take a piecemeal approach to what ails us today. Addiction and mental health treatment must be a part of a comprehensive overhaul of our nation's healthcare system.
Sahil Kapur | Posted 03.21.2009 | Entertainment
Friday, February 20, 2009, marks the 42nd birthday of Nirvana rock legend Kurt Cobain. I learned through Kurt Cobain that there's a dark side to every light, and a silver lining to every cloud.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 03.04.2009 | Living
Research both in animals and in people show that stress or trauma early in life, like the stress of living with addiction or relationship trauma, can hyper-sensitize neurons and receptors.
Christopher Devine | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago
This is the seventh in a series of excerpts from my book Of No Fixed Address: A Collection of Voices from the Streets of Chicago.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
Obama shouldn't make the mistake that Bill Clinton did and install a drug czar who will ignore science and push dogma.
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Carole Bennett | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living