In 2008, Sheff’s New York Times bestselling memoir, Beautiful Boy, detailed his son Nic’s descent into methamphetamine addiction and provided a firsthand parent’s perspective on teenage addiction. Many of our readers will fondly remember your memoir of your son Nic’s addiction. How is Clean different, or similar, to Beautiful Boy? David Sheff: Beautiful Boy was…
I’m sharing Wes’s (Irvine) feeling of being really moved on this occasion. High Watch Farm have always meant a great deal to me. It’s given me a lot, a lot more than I’ve ever given it, and I haven’t been nearly as close to it in recent years as I would wish. To hear the…
Liz Barnes, Special to the Citizenwww.auburnpublic.com Lots of people contributed to finding ways to make treatment for addictions work. It started with treatment for alcohol use long ago and has moved into drugs and behaviors like gambling. Here are a few:Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 with a single meeting, blind faith, hope and dedication. Today, there…
By Celia VimontJanuary 18, 2013 Affordable Care Act (ACA) is fully implemented in 2014, access to effective health care services for addiction will improve dramatically, according to Faces & Voices of Recovery. In an issue brief, the advocacy group describes how the new legislation will make it possible for many in or seeking recovery to…
By Darlene Lancer, J.D., MFTPsychcentral.com Most therapists do not realize that the 12 Steps are not merely an antidote for addiction, but are guidelines for nothing less than a total personality transformation. Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was influenced by Carl Jung. In correspondence, Jung wrote Wilson that the cure for alcoholism would…
By Dr. Stuart Gitlow | June 7, 2013 | Some over the years have wanted to envision addiction as being represented on a pyramid where mere use falls at the base of the pyramid, abuse falls partway up, and dependence lives at the peak. This type of approach suggests a continuum in which an individual…
Dr. Howard MarkelEditor’s note: Nearly 130 years ago, cocaine was the world’s newest wonder drug – touted as a cure for everything from morphine addiction to tuberculosis. And its biggest supporter was Sigmund Freud. Whenever Big Pharma unfurls its latest “blockbuster” drug, I am carried back to the era when the biggest wonder drug on the…
By GABRIELLE GLASER Women’s growing predilection for wine has a darker side—and the only way to deal with it is to acknowledge the profound differences between how women and men abuse alcohol. Author Gabrielle Glaser talks to WSJ’s Gary Rosen about the growing problem of alcohol abuse among upper middle-class women and why A.A. is…
by BOB VON STERNBERG There’s a growing realization that policy cannot be shaped from the shadows. A bunch of alcoholics and addicts mingled throughout the elegant galleries of the Walker Art Center on a recent evening. They were there for a sold-out screening of a new documentary called “The Anonymous People.” The film’s title is…
by Wallace J. Nichols, Sarah Kornfeld and Andy Myers It might begin like this: “Hello, my name is [your name here]. I am a petroleum addict. I’ve tried Valvoline, Vaseline, kerosene, gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, and natural gas. I’ve even tried plastics.” The first step to recovery, after all, is admitting you have a problem.…