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A famous quote about recovery says, “You do not recover from addiction by stopping using. You recover by creating a new life where it is easier to not use. If you do not create a new life, then all the factors that brought you to your addiction will eventually catch up with you again.” The …

After putting in all of the hard work at rehab, former addicts then have to face perhaps one of the next big challenges of their life–employment. Jobs after addiction treatment are a vital part of the overall recovering process. While a person may have been equipped with the behavioral repurposing and gone through therapy to …

  Actress Drew Barrymore is now 47 years old (2022), a mother, producer, and entrepreneur. However, at the age of 13, Barrymore found herself admitted into a mental health institution by her mother for a year and a half and legally emancipated from her parents at age 14. Her struggles with substance abuse at such …

There are few things that can place more of a burden on a couple than drug or alcohol addiction. The challenges that come with caring for someone who is currently undergoing or has undergone addiction treatment to overcome an addiction can either strengthen or destroy a relationship. After all, addiction can take a severe toll …

When patients finally leave an addiction treatment rehab, there’s usually a sense of relief. However, that sense of relief is almost always short-lived once the individual discovers the battle for recovery has only just begun. It takes a lot of hard work for someone to get through treatment. Through detox and therapy, they have to …

Mac Miller’s tragic overdose-related death in 2018 sparked a conversation about addiction in today’s modern society. The 26-year-old rapper was found unresponsive in his home on September 7, 2018. He had reportedly struggled with substance abuse for some time. Miller had been open about his struggle previously in interviews. In 2013, in an interview with …