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Before Riverbank House, merely existing as an active alcoholic felt like a 24/7 job. Real employment or working towards any kind of a future interfered with my drinking.  I lied, I cheated, I manipulated, and I stole, mainly from my parents and those closest to me.  I...

Addiction Recovery's 1st Step When chronic drug users and alcoholics separate from an addictive substance they often need help coping with withdrawal.  Detox is a popular umbrella term in the lingo of addiction recovery services, but new terms are emerging....

Dead is Dead When you walk into a drug rehab in Laconia, New Hampshire, there’s a bulletin board posted with activity schedules, inspiring quotes about recovery, and facts about drug addiction. Beneath the bulletin board there’s a shrine of sorts, remembrances for a...

WHEN CHRONIC SUBSTANCE ABUSE ROBS US OF THE CHILD WE ONCE KNEW Parents of drug addicts can feel caught in a nightmare with too probable an ending.  Experts tell us that drug addiction is a chronic disease that will require life-long management and that relapse is...

PARENTS OF ADDICTS:  WHAT'S WRONG WITH US A mother is only as happy as her saddest child -- Chinese Proverb The brittle stress, the penetrating fatigue, the stunned loneliness and social isolation, and the impotency of our parental love has a name.  Well before the...

Drug Rehabs in Boston and Throughout New England Are Unavailable finding the best drug rehabs in Boston is not an easy feat. consider this, 1,256 people in Massachusetts will have no shot at opioid addiction treatment. This is because they died in 2014 of a drug...

There’s a new game that people play with television commercials: mute a pharmaceutical ad and guess what the drug treats. Erectile dysfunction (middle aged couple, arms around each other, walking the beach, sunset)? Depression (single middle aged woman, wrapped in an...

The Connection Between OxyContin and Heroin The American Journal of Public Health explains that the jump from 316,000 OxyContin prescriptions written in 1996 to the 14 million prescriptions written between 2001 and 2002, “correlated with increased abuse, diversion,...

The Label Drug Addict Hurts on Many Levels Are we part of the problem if we call our addicted child an addict or alcoholic? Because, they say, such labels perpetuate the moralistic stigma that cascades into less accessible drug addiction treatment, prison overcrowding...