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Failure or opportunity? Addiction and life lessons
After almost 400 articles for All About Addiction I find it hard sometimes to motivate and write more for the website. Still, writing is why I started this whole thing and it’s the lifeblood of the whole enterprise. So this week I made a commitment to write every day. I was doing pretty well until…
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Recovery from addiction: Stigma and many obstacles, but no excuses!
Many of the people in my life nowadays forget that I’m an ex-convict. Still, I get daily reminders that the “ex” part of convict doesn’t carry much weight. I also know that I have it easy because I have a Ph.D. after my name. For many others in recovery, things are even harder. Still, when…