I knew I was in trouble, with meth, the first time my habit cost me an entire paycheck. I say the “first time” because the payday binge would be a recurring theme, as I got deeper into my downward spiral…but I was still lucid enough that first time to know I was getting myself in [...]

I don’t remember most of detox, thankfully. What memories I have are mostly about pain, or anguish, or misery, or whatever melodramatic noun you want to hang on a state of being that was to say the least unpleasant, in a way that’ll make you forget such a thing as pleasantness every existed.
Detox will tear [...]

How bad is gambling addiction? Bad enough to ruin your career. Bad enough to hollow you out from the inside, and leave you a shell of anything you ever were or might have hoped to be.
That’s what gambling addiction did to me, anyway. And that’s what it’ll do to you too…if you don’t get [...]

 I got alcohol rehab once. It didn’t take. I was twenty-eight and I thought I knew what was what. I didn’t need some alcohol treatment egghead telling me how to quit drinking.
I was drunk four months after I checked out of the alcohol treatment center.
I got alcohol treatment twice. I was forty-one and [...]