For more than 20 years, we have been observing a national Recovery Month, a time to celebrate the progress being made, and also needed,...
First Thought Wrong: All Growed Up by Mark Lundholm
Every treatment facility in this publication has a successful program, staff and alumni association. So why aren’t they all full? Why aren’t they adding...
Interviews ASAM President Don Kurth – Heroine Addict To Hero Advicate (Part 1)
CG: First Don, I want to thank you for taking the time to do this. Just to get name some of your credentials: you’re...
Detox Diary: A Night Tech’s Log – Thinking Of My Thought
I am thinking. I am thinking of my thoughts. I can’t see them. I can’t touch them. I can’t stop them from entering my...
Personal Perspective By Terence Gorski – Cocaine: Craving and Relapse
COCAINE ADDICTS OFTEN RELAPSE BECAUSE THEY ARE OVERWHELMED by a powerful sense of craving. The physiological craving of cocaine is far more powerful than...
Daniel’s Story
My name is Barbara. My four children range from ages 9 to 21, which means much of my life has been spent changing diapers,...

