5 Tips For Setting Goals In Recovery

Drug addiction is increasingly being seen as an illness, and one that needs to be treated as such. It has been estimated that 1 in 10 Americans have used or will use drugs, while more than 200,000 people die every year from drug abuse. Like many illnesses, addiction can be cured. But there is also a high risk of relapse—as much as 60%—which is why it’s important to prepare, inform and support each and every addict. One of the ways…

I have always had an addictive personality. When I was 16, it led to a problem with alcohol. As I aged, this morphed into problems with meth and other drugs. At 25, I should have been at my peak, but I felt like I was on my last legs. I wasn’t healthy, I wasn’t strong. I was a dead man walking. So, I decided to do something about it. I stopped the drugs and I developed another hobby: running. I…

They say you need to hit rock bottom before you can clamber toward sobriety. To an extent, that was true for me as well. The difference is that I remained at rock bottom for many years before I even contemplated sobriety. At 23 I was already a heavy user and my rock bottom came in the form of a sentence for drug charges. Despite that, it wasn’t until I was in my late twenties that I finally got a hold…