I'm here to say that even though you may relapse once or twice, you should never get discouraged from getting clean and bettering yourself. For many years, I drank completely ignorant of the...

When I finally decided to get help for my Valium addiction, I thought I would have a hard time finding drug treatment centers that specialized in prescription drug abuse. I didn't want to go to a...

I was 19 years old and suicidal when I entered inpatient alcohol rehab. I had dropped out of high school, been working in an exhausting, dead-end manual labor job (until I got laid off) and really...

Aside from getting into drugs in the first place, the stupidest choice I ever made was entering my first rehab facility. When you're coming down from a three-year-long cocaine-induced stupor, you...

My struggles with addiction actually began later in life than some would expect. Before I ultimately landed myself into the detox ward of a alcohol and drug treatment center, I found myself in the...

I think the most valuable lesson that I have learned -- via family therapy -- since my sister was admitted to a rehab for her cocaine treatment is that the only way to help an addict is to allow...

Heroin stole my daughter from me; drug rehab brought her back home.

My daughter was 17 when she first met her first boyfriend. I knew that I did not like him when I first met him but I had...

I have been in recovery now for fifteen years; after nearly a decade of heavy drinking, my family had organized an alcohol intervention for me. Today, I still rely on a few things to calm my...

Before I went into alcohol rehab, it seemed like I could never hold down a solid group of friends. I would cycle through different groups -- all throughout high school, all throughout college and...

It has been 146 days since my heroin detox. That’s the longest number I have ever been able to honestly report about my sobriety. See, this is not my first time being sober. However, since it is...