Tag: addiction
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When Eric Clapton and Al Pacino Made This One Simple Change Addiction Became a Thing of The Past
Clapton and Pacino, now clean and sober for multiple decades, are a far cry from their former selves. During the heady height of their careers in the 1970s, they were both so consumed with addiction that they could barely focus on their professional work.
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The Deadly Addiction Trap That Gets Addicts Every Time
Addiction is like a slippery slope that starts gently but eventually descends into a vertical drop that ends in a bottomless dark pit. However, there’s something sinister about this slippery slope. It’s also strangely sticky; you can’t get off it once you’re on it.
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A Highly Unusual Approach To The Addiction Problem
Why do we relapse? Why do we go back after all the promises, solemn oaths and daily hours of work to stay sober? It’s not that we can’t stop once we start (that’s old news; after all, that’s what qualifies us as addicts).
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Why Jamie Lee Curtis’s Views On Addiction Will Make You A Better Person.
Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis has had a distinguished career in the entertainment industry. Actor, producer and author, she has succeeded in all her endeavours. But her single most significant accomplishment isn’t her work. It’s overcoming a ten-year secret addiction to opiates and alcohol.
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Why Addiction Can’t Be Solved In a Three-Dimensional World
Scientists have spent decades trying to prove a visual link for addiction in the brains of hopeless addicts, but to date, no neural footprint has ever been found.
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Are Recovery Meetings Really Necessary if You No Longer Relapse?
Sitting in church basements listening to strangers talk about God and their darkest hour while crunching on old, stale biscuits dipped in lukewarm tea definitely wasn’t the dream life I’d envisioned.
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If You Constantly Chronically Relapse, You Are Indeed Truly Powerless
It Isn’t You That’s Deciding To Relapse. Question: which one of these addicts is truly powerless? A) Somebody that goes to any lengths to stay sober and clean yet still finds themselves relapsing? B) Somebody that goes to any lengths to use and act out in their addiction despite all the awful, painful consequences? A or…
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How to Enjoy Your Sobriety Without Becoming Bored, Lonely and Downright Miserable.
It all starts with a definition.
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Can’t Stop Relapsing? The Real Reason for Repeated Relapse (And It’s Hiding in Plain Sight)
What really ails the chronic relapser.
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How One Crazy Suggestion Finally Helped Me Stop Relapsing
Read this if you feel lost in recovery
Darren James 