by Anthony Myers | Sep 8, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Substance Abuse
(Photo Wikimedia commons) Civil rights and public order – the right of the people as a whole to be safe from harm and the right of the individual to be free from intrusive government – are often in conflict. Take the homeless. Some proportion of them are mentally ill,...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 6, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Recovery
All week, we’ve been talking about the work needed to maintain sobriety and to help fix or prevent relapses. For many people in sobriety, relapse is a dirty word. Maybe that’s why many people don’t seem to want to discuss it. But as with other problems, discussing...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 5, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Recovery
In yesterday’s blog post, we discussed work, recovery, and Labor Day. So, it only seems fitting that we should talk about the opposite of work for today’s post. We should talk about vacations. Of course, just because people take time from work to go on vacations...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 31, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Substance Abuse
We’re in the midst of an opioid epidemic, with insufficient funds and treatment facilities for the addicted to seek help. The president has declared it a national emergency. So naturally it’s time to crackdown on marijuana. At least that seems to be the intent of...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 25, 2017 | Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
If you do anything specifically to get intoxicated, that’s not ideal. Intoxication can be the necessary or accidental side effect of something, from pain medication to a runner’s elevated endorphins, but if you want and try to get buzzed, high, wasted or drunk, that...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 23, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction
Do things get better? Perhaps, but for LGBTQIA teens and young people struggling with drug and alcohol abuse, it might be difficult for them to see brighter futures when their current worlds might be so dark. LGBTQIA stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual,...