Addiction Recovery Blog

According to a 2013 New Yorker article, writer Ian Crouch wrote of a novel that will make a person “never want to drink again.” Naturally, that piqued my interest, and I wondered, which book is this? Is that possible? Is there a book that would make an alcoholic want to stop drinking? The novel is Charles Jackson’s The Lost Weekend, and according to the 1944 New York Times book review, the story is about an

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol acts like a sledgehammer to the brain. Not only does alcohol cause diminished balance, impaired decision making and motor coordination, but some alcoholics undergo memory loss, which can occur only after a few drinks. This memory loss is called a blackout. Imagine having a few drinks inside your living room and then waking up on horse manure inside a horse corral, several feet away

According to a recent New York Times article, LSD, along with psilocybin, is making a comeback, as a treatment for depression. This brings to mind the time when AA co-founder Bill Wilson took LSD, in the hopes of alleviating his own depression. And due to the drug’s hallucinogenic properties, Wilson thought that LSD might help suffering alcoholics achieve spiritual awakenings that would make them get sober. Wilson took LSD during supervised experiments with Betty Eisner,

As if the opioid epidemic couldn’t get any worse. Besides fentanyl, heroin and opioid painkillers, there is another opioid foe out there, and according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, this opioid is about 10,000 times more potent than morphine. In 2012, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) even issued a nationwide warning to law enforcement and the public about this drug, which is used as an animal tranquilizer for large animals including ox, buffalo,

According to the New York Time’s editorial board, the victims of the opioid epidemic are not just the addicts. Young children, and babies are victims, as well. The Times writes about a Pennsylvania couple that died from a heroin overdose. Authorities found their bodies a week later. Not only was the couple found dead, but also the police discovered the couple’s young infant inside a bassinet. The baby had starved to death. Sometimes, children whose