When Everyone Has Cut All Ties with The Addict – Now What?

Oct 10, 2019

When Everyone Has Cut All Ties with The Addict – Now What? The longer someone stays in their addiction the worse everything becomes. Treatment center after treatment center, incarceration after incarceration – most loved ones eventually find they cannot...

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 Illusions

Jan 15, 2019

Chasing Illusions Addiction did not fully hit until my early 40’s. My alcoholic brain kept telling me that I was too good to be addicted to anything. But deep down, I knew I was and had known since I was 21 or 22 years old.Addiction was for lesser people. Not the...

Addiction – What It feels Like, a Personal Reflection

Sep 19, 2018

Addiction – What It feels Like, a Personal Reflection By Shayne Sundholm, CEO, Clean Recovery Centers What does it feel like to have a drug and or alcohol addiction? Unless a person actually has the disease it is virtually impossible to describe the feeling in words....

Heroin Addiction is Killing My Friends

Apr 18, 2018

Heroin Addiction is Killing My Friends “How old were you when you first tried Heroin?” This is one of the questions I remember asking Stephanie. Stephanie was one of my closest friends. We met in rehab when we were both in our late twenties. At this point in my life,...