Oct
29
There were the good days and then there were the bad days
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During my 90 days at alcohol rehab I experienced more ups and downs than I could ever hope to include in a short write-up. There were the good days and there were the bad, but in the end they all added up to precisely what I came for: alcohol rehabilitation. Alcoholism had left me in [...]
Oct
23
Los Angeles–where a huge recovery community exists.
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I live in Los Angeles, where the recovery community is huge. There are literally thousands of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. I know hundreds of people who have been through drug rehabilitation. Some got clean and sober through a 12-step program, some did it cold turkey (no thank you!) but most of them went through [...]
Oct
15
Words on alcoholism
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It seems so tame, a glass of wine at dinner, a beer on a hot summer day. It’s part of our culture, right? For a lot of people, it is. For a lot of people, for the alcoholic, its not. People that suffer from alcoholism, or alcohol addiction, can’t just enjoy one glass with [...]
Oct
1
It took all the power in my world to make THE call
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My drug treatment program saved my life and the lives of my family. Hell, they may have saved the lives of my friends, too. I say that because drug treatment did actually save me from drug addiction. And, I’m sure you know that drug addiction can kill you. The drug treatment program saved the lives [...]