White Knuckling If you attend recovery meetings, you will at some point hear the term white-knuckling. This is a very graphic term to describe the experience of not taking drugs and fighting it with all your strength and willpower. It implies that you are going at it alone without any help. White-knuckling, is a negative […]
A Song For Michelle
A film about mental illness, addiction and suicide This film, “A Song For Michelle”, is in production currently. I was able to watch a trailer recently and it is clearly an excellent handling of these difficult subjects. Suicide is something that is rarely spoken about and gets swept under the rug. Suicides rarely make the […]
Great Meetings: How to find them.
Finding the great meetings. In my work, I come in contact regularly with people who want to get clean and stay clean. They are motivated to do what it takes. But, when I bring up meetings, right away they bring up excuses. They don’t believe me when I tell them that there are some really […]
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