Articles and Recovery Related Themes The Fix website is a great place to read all sorts of articles, blogs, and find information pertaining to addiction.
The road to Raising the Bottom has been a long and twisted path that spans over twenty-three years. I started writing in 1994, shortly after I graduated from nursing school. I finished my first novel in 1997, and went on to write three more. I never did much to...
How a Parent Can Contribute to the Opiate Epidemic? Parents must educate themselves to understand one basic premise: Addiction is addiction. Period. Statistically, most opiate addicts don’t start out with a needle in their arm. Their addiction creeps up on them the...
Most women need to feel at least mildly desperate before they are willing to look at their life and make the necessary changes. A hundred forms of unhappiness can ensue, but people will keep on doing what they do, and they’ll continue to get what they get until...
Way to Go Cosmopolitan! Cosmopolitan Magazine markets to young women. In a recent article, the magazine offered up ways to hide booze in everyday items such as a hair brush. Way to go Cosmopolitan! With high school and college students dying from alcohol poisoning,...
Please join in for a listen to my conversation with Sarah, from Drugrehab. Hear my thoughts on our drinking culture, and why I wrote the book, Raising the Bottom! Raising the Bottom It doesn’t have to get bad before you decide to take stock and change course....
So here’s the truth. After working in healthcare for twenty-four years, in emergency rooms and psych wards, coupled with my numerous experiences in dealing with alcoholics, I’ve learned a few things: Let’s see, my list covers most bases: I grew up with alcoholic mom,...
Women in India Need Help Too I love tossing around topics and running things by some of the women who read my FB blog to help get a feel for what’s going on in other parts of the world. Not surprising at all is the fact that women and our concerns are much the same...