Drug Addiction
The Trauma-Addiction Nexus
The addiction specialist, doctor and author Gabor Mate says learning how to deal with past trauma is the key to tackling …
addiction
Self-care
Why Do Addicts Let Self-Care Slip?
In my own journey from addiction into recovery, one of the things I’ve struggled most with is the practice of self-care. …
Recovery
Thoughts vs Thinking: What I Didn’t Know, I Didn’t Know…
Writer David Green on the twisting nature of the addict’s thoughts What are thoughts? They can be pleasant, joyful, scary, …
Drug Addiction
Recovery
Rehab Focus – Gunnebah Addiction Retreat
In the first of an occasional new series, we take a closer look at rehabs around the world. This one, the …
Alcoholism
The Man from Surfers Paradise
The first person to openly confess their alcoholism to me was a complete stranger, about 20 years ago, in an area …
Alcoholism
What Are Drug & Alcohol Abuse Hotlines?
A special article dealing with the nature of hotlines and how they can help addicts and their support people, from our …
Recovery
The Opposite of Addiction
Watch British journalist Johann Hari’s brilliant TED Talk on the nature of, and possible cure for, addiction.
Recovery
The Girl in the Pink Baseball Cap
A few years back, I was at one of my regular meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, an early morning version for those …
Current Affairs
What Tragedy Means
‘Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying, Though I …