Sure, it always starts our fun. Girl’s night out, woo-hoo. You deserve a night out with your friends, after all it’s been a long week of work and kids and you deserve to treat yourself. Who can argue with that? What happens for far too many women though, is that a...
Where did the notion come from that any of us had to be superwoman? And why didn’t anyone tell us that wearing a cape isn’t the answer? As if women don’t have enough to do, and then to heap that sort of expectation on our heads, is it any wonder more and more women...
There is no shortage of misconceptions and hurt feelings swirling about when it comes to 12-step based recovery verses recovery from opiate abuse that extols the virtues of medication-assisted therapy. It doesn’t take but a few minutes of perusing the internet...
Anxious, stressed. It’s hard to have a conversation with anyone anymore without those two words cropping up. What seeps into the conversation next are the medications people take to deal with their anxiety and stress, but do those medications work? Over the last...
For the past twenty-four years I’ve worked in emergency rooms and psychiatric wards as a registered nurse. As far as I’m concerned, much of my nursing career has been a twenty-four year long research project. I continue to be saddened by what I see when it comes to...
As the saying goes, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” but when it comes to the subject of addiction, I’ve noticed a huge disparity in the way doctors who suffer with addiction issues are treated compared to everyone else. Ignorance is Not Bliss What...
Raising the Bottom–Line–In Corporate America Corporate America is as befuddled by the drug culture as the rest of the world. Not only does drug and alcohol abuse impact the bottom line, but the emotional toll it takes on workers, managers and other...
Binge Drinking: Normalized When did the shift occur that a one night celebration with a few girlfriends before the big wedding day has turned into a three or four day drinking bash all under the guise of a “bachelorette party?” From what I hear from women who have...
Lost Creativity is No Laughing Matter All that time boozing in the bars is lost time that none of us who chose recovery will ever get back. It wasn’t until I got sober that I realized just how much time I had wasted. The time spent prowling the bars and...
Doctor’s & Nurses Don’t Understand Addiction The longer I work in healthcare, the more I realize that we’ll never get a hold of the global opiate scourge until the people who work in medicine can get a grip on what’s happening. Addicts and...
