Okay, apparently today we’re in love with the blog What Winner’s Do. I followed the link in the previous post and read over more of that blog, and noticed this all together fascinating post about Suboxone:

Prior to me admitting to my family that I had an addiction to Oxycontin, I had stopped using the drug for periods of time. It wasn’t pleasant but I would either ride out the withdrawal symptoms, or I would take some Suboxone that I got off the street. I would then vow to start fresh and not use anymore.

That would last for a week, maybe…

The What Winners Do blog posted a great list of seven things she’s grateful for about being in recovery. I strongly recommend checking out her whole blog, because she writes well and she writes honestly. I hope this list of seven things entices you to check out more of what she’s written:

1. I don’t have to distract myself from what is going on inside - I’ve spent so many years fearing what I would find if I just stopped and looked at myself that I found every way imaginable to distract myself…mainly with drugs and alcohol. I am so grateful that in recovery I…

Resentment, self-pity, fear. Which one trips up the most people who are in recovery? Semi-Charmed, over at Methed Up, answers that, at least for him, it’s fear:

Over and over in meetings you hear that ‘resentment is the number one offender.’ I’d like to be able to call bullshit of that, I suspect for me it is fear, but honestly I don’t know. Either way, we’re given tools for dealing with resentments and fears by doing the steps. We write them down. We look at what has troubled us. We share it with a trusted friend (a sponsor or someone else,…

Looking for for some great weblogs focused on recovery from addiction? Take a look at The 100 Sober Weblogs.

Getting clean is work, but staying clean is much harder. Relapse is common, especially during the first two years. Even after two years, relapse still occurs. Brain Dead Genius relates a tragic event that occurred to a friend who had been clean for 5 years:

This week someone OD’d after 5 years clean. A friend. The lesson was that [he] wasn’t really working a program, just being abstinent - I know that there aren’t any guarantees in life but just for today I choose to hedge my bets and work a program - because I know that I’m not immune.

Everyone in recovery…

Rusty Keller relates this startling, painful encounter with an old acquaintance who is still using:

I had a horrible run in with the still drinking T yesterday. In public. In front of my terrified son. In the parking lot of our little country store. She was wasted, as usual. I was so uncomfortable and felt so awkward, but I said hi and asked if she was okay. She was so freaky, babbling something about wondering what I was doing there (uh, buying dinner and some milk). As I was walking out she calls me over to the car she’s in (driven by…

Recovery Month is beginning with a bang! Melissa and went to Washington D.C. last week to attend a news conference at The National Press Club. SAMHSA (The Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) presented the results of the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health and the panel of experts included John Walters, Director of The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Terry Cline, The Administrator of SAMHSA, and Dr. H. Westley Clark, The Director of SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.

We also celebrated the event by attending a luncheon…

Hello Fellow Road-Runners!

As we get closer and closer to launch, the level of acid in my stomach seems to increase daily. Tums have taken up permanent residence in my purse and sleep, which has rarely been a problem, is starting to elude me, being overtaken by thoughts of “Will people really like my book reviews?” - “Whose video will we show every week?” - “What if we don’t get 100,000 hits every day?”

Well, Melissa just got back from the annual meeting of The Association of Recovery Schools where she was infused with even more energy (if that’s possible!) to get the site up and running by September (National Recovery Month). As I write this, she and Tina are brainstorming for ideas to connect with people and organizations to help us finance the next phase of the project. I don’t know how many of you reading this know anything about starting up non-profit organizations, but it’s a whole lot more complex than anything I could have imagined.

There will be several phases of the site. The first phase will include such features as: