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Feeling Connected Is Key for Addiction Recovery. Guest Post by Michele Kirsch

12-step fellowships advise addicts to seek out similarities in others’ stories. In this guest article, award-winning memoirist Michele Kirsch shares how seeing her benzo addiction as different kept her in denial; and how identifying and connecting with other addicts helped her recover. My Anxiety Medication Led…

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Book Review: Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol

As the subtitle suggests, Drink, by Ann Dowsett Johnston, is focused on the various ways in which women enter into problematic relationships with alcohol. With chapters covering the insidious rise of booze in women’s cultural conscience, the reasons that lead to over-consumption in females, insights…

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They Tried to Make Me Go to Rehab. I Said.…

Just like the song by the late, great Amy Winehouse, when I was told to go to rehab, I also said “No, no, no.” In fact, I used much stronger terms than that. Something more along the lines of “Not on your effin’ life!” I…

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