Failure To Launch Syndrome | Individuals struggling with addiction lack the basic life skills necessary to becoming an independent adults.

Active addiction has the ability to turn someone into an entirely different person. Letting go of past mistakes in life.

After rehab I would make some progress, and then go back to using. I never dealt with my grief. Coping With Loss In Addiction Recovery

Weight gain and the insatiable cravings for sweets and carbs in early recovery. How to shed weight post rehab.

Finding a healthy body and a healthy diet in sobriety has been one of the most challenging aspects of getting sober for me. Amphetamines

Medications like Adderall or Vyvanse or Ritalin are silencing their innocent voices and preventing them from being their authentic selves.

College is much easier now that I am sober. I would see students popping prescription medications to cram for exams.

I realized deep inside then and there, if my thinking is so screwed up that I needed dope in order to clear my head enough to think, then...

I believe you’d like METH..."Oh hell no! Meth is for sleezeballs .One hit...Then two and it took my soul! "~A White Collar Addict

There are two things I wanted: to relax inside, which the Xanax pretty well took care of, and to drink like a gentleman.

"I am not sure if my addiction was tied to a DUI, the kidnapping of innocent farm animals and a totaled BMW. But I don't need to go REHAB?

I always thought Adderall was my one true love until I met opiates. I felt loved and safe and warm. I felt like it was my friend!!!

I have made attempts at almost every method recovery from addiction– narcanon, suboxone, methadone maintenance, outpatient, inpatient

I was lost, lonely and desperate. God somehow intervened and I ended up in a safe place where I could try, yet again, to get sober.

Ready for a new life? After you’ve handed your love ones over to the care of an addiction treatment center, you may be asking yourself, now what? You are lik...

They’ve lied to your face and when everything that isn’t nailed down has been taken from your home, they steal the neighbors screw gun....

How many times have your heard or said to yourself, "I'll get sober tomorrow? I'll go to detox but I will not go to long-term treatment."

I learned very quickly that recovery, be it sober living, the rooms of Recovery, rehabs and the overall community is much more than it seems

Perhaps the scariest thing about going into long-term treatment is cutting all ties with the outside world. This usually, in most cases, means specific phone...