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Their fondness for risk and excitement makes them ill-suited to a ‘straight’ lifestyle they would no doubt describe as boring.

Most communities provide both options for opioid patients, and lacking a methadone for alcohol or cocaine, use a more traditional abstinence-based approach for those addictions.

The more we exert ourselves to help those with problems like ours, the more concrete benefits we receive from AA.

What underlies these defenses is anxiety. We’re afraid of what we might find out.

Learning financial responsibility forces us to address and change behaviors and habits associated with our addictions.

Instead of becoming inspired to turn his life around, he seems to have figured, “OK, crisis averted. Let’s go get a beer.”

An Interventionist will be trying to make sure they have all of the ‘pieces of the puzzle’

Too often our own hopes, dreams, and aspirations have been shunted aside.

Everybody gets hungry, angry, etc.—it’s normal. Can’t avoid that, can you? That’s life.