By Carly Benson The New Year offers the hope of a clean slate to many people. When January rolls around each year, people make their resolutions to get healthier. According to an article published by Statistic Brain around 44% of people make New Year’s resolutions geared towards the category of self-improvement. You can bet that
by Daniel Maurer I began my “career” in drinking and taking opioid prescription drugs regularly, relatively late in life. However, looking back on my usage when I was still in high school, I see now that I had the makings of a problem drinker and regular drug abuser from the very beginning. The fact is
By A.R. Andrews | Personal Narrative Contributor I’d struggled with a lot as a child with major anxiety and depression. My mother was a recovering cocaine addict; she also had severe mental disorders that went untreated for many years. This caused her to not be the nicest mother. My three siblings and I survived this
By O. RMarv | Personal Narrative Contributor When I came into the rooms of recovery, I was simply looking for a way to stop the insanity of having to drink and use even when I didn’t want to. All I cared about was staying alive, which was not a guarantee for me, given the rate
