Articles by Nick Jordan

So that, as they say, is that. After nearly three months, I’ve left the Gunnebah Addiction Retreat to start the next …

On Saturday I posted a picture here of my son Blake, who I finally got to see over the weekend. Although …

I’ve started to slow these posts down a bit as I’ve embarked on the larger project of turning them into a …

War stories are what we tell each other in AA, when describing our more colourful drinking experiences. You don’t have to …

It seems obvious to say now, but one of the biggest problems faced by alcoholics is the sheer ubiquity and social …

My friend at rehab, ‘C’, left today and I was bit bereft. Over the last month I’ve got to know her …

Don’t worry this isn’t really a post about golf as such, but about the notion of redefining fun. For addicts ‘fun’ …

‘Remember that we deal with alcohol, cunning, baffling, powerful’, p58, The Big Book. This is a line from the Big Book …

As you may know, it was Alcoholics Anonymous who pioneered the famous 12 Step program, which has since been copied and …