Addiction: Why It’s a Progressive Disease

Jun 5, 2019

Addiction: Why It’s a Progressive Disease Cunning, baffling and powerful – that’s how many describe addiction, which is truly a horrific disease. It’s also progressive. Once a person is addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, the disease gets worse if the person remains in...

What it Feels Like to Have an Addiction

Jun 3, 2019

What it Feels Like to Have an Addiction For those who don’t suffer from drug and alcohol addiction, it is very hard to understand this disease. I have almost 20 years in recovery and sometimes it still baffles me. During the past three and a half years, we have helped...

Chasing Dragons

May 31, 2019

Chasing Dragons For someone in the grips of drug and alcohol addiction, the compulsion to use is fierce. With some substances such as crack, many refer to chasing the high as “chasing the dragon.”Alcohol was my substance of no choice. Having worked with hundreds of...

Addiction is Not a Choice

Apr 18, 2019

Addiction is Not a Choice It amazes me how little understanding there is around addiction. Mountains of evidence show that drug and alcohol addiction is a chronic brain disease as well as a progressive disease. Over time and without effective treatment, the disease...

Is Addiction Genetic?

Apr 16, 2019

Is Addiction Genetic? In my 40 plus years of working with suffering addicts and alcoholics, I have definitely seen a genetic component to the disease of addiction. Over the years, a great deal of medical research has been done around the genetics of addiction. We now...