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Category: Recent Recovery News
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“First, I was staying clean so I wouldn’t go to prison. Then I was staying clean so I wouldn’t lose my kids. Then, I started realizing I’m doing this for myself.”
“My father totaled the family car during a bender, stole the savings from my parents’ joint bank account, showed up at my mother’s office begging for money to buy drugs, and tried to pick us up at school without permission.”
Addiction is a three fold disease—Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. Here’s one way out of that obstacle course.
“Rats are not people, Lander said, but the principle is the same: Addiction, without treatment, can kill.”
“Through likes and comments, I’ve watched my hometown of Perry, Ohio, disappear into and come back from heroin addiction.”
