We all watched as Oprah Winfrey interviewed Whitney Houston’s family about her struggle with cocaine addiction and the events that led up to her death in February of this year. Statements were made regarding Houston’s ongoing addiction issues with or without Bobby Brown being in the picture. Since Houston’s family understood that her disease was [...]
Addiction Relapse
Its that time of year when the ads tell us we should be joyful, happy, spending beautiful moments with our families, and drinking fancy alcoholic beverages to celebrate the gifts in our lives. That is the myth. For many, and sadly so, holiday times are about the pain of loss, disappointment, rejection, financial strife and [...]
On 11/29/2011 on VH1 there was a Celebrity Rehab special. The premise of the show was to visit past cast members to see how they were doing in their recovery process. The show featured Rodney King, Amber Smith, Nikki Mckibbin and Andy Dick, Amber Smith, Nikki Mckibbin and Andy Dick. As a recovering addict I [...]
Everyone who is in recovery from addiction hears the statistics of the amount of people that will likely relapse. The Yale School of Medicine has been doing research in an attempt to predict the likelihood that a recovering alcoholic will relapse. The study shows a connection between the chances of relapse and reducing the gray [...]
Some of the greatest inventors and artists in the world had numerous failures before they achieved what would ultimately put them in the history books. The same goes for recovery from addiction. Many who have been able to achieve long term sobriety had to first suffer a number of relapses before they were able to [...]
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