Invincibility is a funny thing; just when you start to really need it, it fails you. I let my alcohol addiction rule my life for years, and never imagined the amount of damage it was would one day...

Last year in 2012 the US saw the widespread proliferation of a group of dangerous synthetic drugs called bath salts. These drugs gained more and more traction in the United States along with...

Call it a miracle, call it a long-overdue revelation, call it desperation, but I was able to break free from alcoholism only after two unsuccessful stints in rehab, a failed marriage and three...

I was practically dead already. When you spend your life stealing from the people you care about to buy coke, and coming close to a heart attack almost every day, that's not a life…it's a cry for...

I learned the hard way that the old saying you get what you pay for is true . . . at least when it comes to drug rehab centers. As someone who knows the perils of addiction first-hand, I can tell...

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...