Category Archives: Addiction

An unexpected follow-up to “Book Ideas”

Posted on October 17, 2018 by

Just the other day I wrote a post asking for book ideas… In that post I mentioned Brian, a friend from rehab in end 2009 to 2010, with an amusing anecdote about him being covered in butter after I accidentally … Continue reading →

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“It’s important to admit that you have a problem” is not a cliché. Here’s one reason why.

Posted on October 16, 2018 by

Excuse the clickbait-like title. But it’s not clickbait. If it were, it would list 40 reasons in a slide show format, with each page increment generating revenue for some twat somewhere. Work has been hell for me lately, because one … Continue reading →

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Faces after meth

Posted on October 8, 2018 by

A few years ago, I stumbled on the so-called “faces of meth” online, with disgust. The faces of meth, as usually presented, are a bunch of mug shots showing people after they were ravaged by years of meth abuse. Subjects … Continue reading →

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Yes, using meth leads directly to voices in your head.

Posted on October 2, 2018 by

Every so often I see more search strings that lead people here as they try to find out if meth is causing the voices in their heads. It is. My most popular post on the subject is this one. Intended … Continue reading →

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The danger of treating addiction as a disease

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

When you treat addiction with a 12 step program, it’s about as useful as treating a driver who drove into a tree by talking to him about the tree. Why did you drive into this tree? Is it because the … Continue reading →

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Clean time is not nearly as important as not giving up

Posted on September 3, 2018 by

At the end of last week I wrote my five years clean post and shared it on Facebook. One of my friends there, someone I care about even though we have never met and she is in another country, congratulated … Continue reading →

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Five years clean

Posted on August 31, 2018 by

Normally I’d wait until September 1st, tomorrow… to write this post. But tomorrow is Saturday and I’m going to be busy this weekend. I don’t see myself getting to writing anything at all this weekend, or even spending any time … Continue reading →

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