Quick Guide to Addiction Recovery: What Helps, What Doesn't

“Alcoholism a disease? No way! Cancer is a disease. All they have to do is put down the bottle!”

“If he cared enough about what he was doing to his parents, he’d get help. It’s that simple.”

“She’s been through rehab before – I don’t see how this time will be any different.”

Likely you've heard statements like these. Perhaps you’ve even thought them, yourself.

So much of what we believe about addiction and addiction recovery is bound up in stigma, misinformation and shame. This fuels age-old be...