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I Spent Years Running From Myself Until Recovery Taught Me to Be Seen
She asked an LA cab driver to stop at a liquor store. He drove her to the ER instead. Isabel on six years of half-sobriety and the ranch that finally ended it.
I Lost My Father on 9/11. Then I Lost Myself to Addiction.
At nine he zoomed into 9/11 footage hunting his father’s face. At nineteen, half a pill in a dorm room shut the searching off. Matt Bocchi on what came next.
Letting Go to Live Again: Natalie’s Journey from Darkness to Light | Natalie T.
She taped cardboard over the windows so she would not know what day it was. Natalie T. got sober at 31 on a friend’s couch, after four years of sober houses.
When Self Medication Fails in Addiction | Caitlin G.
Seven years on a maintenance script she left off every medical form, Adderall by the handful, a job at the mall. Then her boyfriend arranged the intervention.
A Father Lost, A Life Reclaimed | How 9/11 Led to a Path of Addiction and Healing
He walked into the drugstore his family had used for thirty years. The pharmacist, who had known his father, turned him away. He got sober ten weeks later.
LOSING Father to ALCOHOLISM made 'WEED SEEM SAFER' | from Feeling UNWANTED to a LIFE Worth LIVING
He turned up high to his own father’s intervention and still talked him into treatment. A year later he landed home with thirty seconds left to say goodbye.
From a 'PERFECT CHILD' to ADDERALL & ALCOHOL | The Hidden Struggles of an Overachiever
Two doctors, three prescriptions, a brain scan her therapist said looked like an ocean: no activity. The straight-A overachiever who could not study for life.
BEYOND ADDICTION: Exploring Smart RECOVERY, Therapy, and COMMUNITY | Transforming Trauma to Triumph
She thought she was driving to her parents’ house for lunch. Eight days later a blood transfusion turned her gray skin back into a color she recognized.
Adopted, Prescribed Ritalin at 14, and Survived a Near-Death Experience
On Thanksgiving Eve he put his father’s car into a telephone pole and climbed out the sunroof with live wires overhead. He kept drinking for four more years.