I’m not an alcoholic and can enjoy a drink, but AA and Al-Anon have become necessary after a relationship with an addict broke me.
I’m not an alcoholic and can enjoy a drink, but AA and Al-Anon have become necessary after a relationship with an addict broke me.
“[My dog] took care of me all our years together but I wasn’t taking care of him. This snapped me right out of my addiction and made me see that I wasn’t just hurting myself in my drinking and using—I was hurting him too.”
The new TV show explores the stigma of mental illness, substance use, and loneliness while calling attention to life-saving medications like Suboxone.
There is a great deal of wisdom in the old saying, life is as hard as you make it. This truism definitely applies to life in recovery from addiction.