18 Holiday (or anytime) Gifts for Those in Recovery
People in recovery deserve a lot of praise. The best gift that you can give someone in recovery is acknowledgment—an acknowledgement of how hard they have worked, how much they have changed, and how proud of them you are. If you didn’t know, those in...
Holiday Survival Guide: Staying Sober Over The Holidays
There is so much support out there for people committed to their sobriety, especially during the holidays. The added stressors of gifts, events, parties, and relatives can intensify urges and vaporize a resolve in the afternoon that was solid in the morning. Many...
Newly Sober During the Holidays
Christmas music is now playing in stores and on the radio and you are newly sober. Congratulations! This is an incredibly vulnerable time for a newly recovered person. Even the music can be a trigger. Recovery is a process and will be tested many times over the years....
5 Things To Remember If Your Kid Is Using Heroin
When I started working at the Coleman Institute for Addiction Medicine many years ago, I was blown away by the parents who were shell-shocked to learn that their children—their high achieving, athletic, award-winning, popular, beloved children—were addicted to heroin....
