rehab
Why Some Young Vets Are Becoming Personal Trainers
"If veterans can take their skills—the teaching others, the physical fitness, and the service element—and they can make a career out of it, it’s like they never left the service. They’re doing the same thing except they don’t have a gun in their hands."
Life After Heroin Is Beautiful and Boring
One of the hardest lessons around being sober is learning to appreciate the ordinary, the mundane, and the normal.
I Use My Own Rehab Stories to Help People Get Treatment for Opioid Addiction
It's a struggle to balance your own sobriety with a high-stress, triggering job in the opioid treatment industry.
This Is How to Get Health Insurance to Cover Treatment for Opioid Addiction
Although the Affordable Care Act is supposed to guarantee addiction treatment to anyone with insurance, people with opioid addictions still face a dysfunctional system.
How Long Does Cocaine Show Up in a Drug Test?
The answer could depend on whether they're testing urine or hair.
Inside the Construction Industry’s Substance Abuse Problem
A rehab centre in Sydney's inner west is helping tradies come to terms with mental health and addiction.
Doctors Who Use Weed Off-Duty Are Getting Their Licenses Suspended
Even in states where cannabis is legal.
Getting Sober Means Learning to Feel Bad
Heroine is an escape, a relief, a safe space. Giving it up means facing all the fear, rage, and terror you’ve been running from.
How Corrupt Rehab Facilities Cash in on Relapses
A sober home owner explains the dark side of the recovery industry.
Who Am I Without Drugs? Imagining Life After Rehab
“My identity had become so entwined with heroin that I had normalized it. It was only occasionally, in a moment of clarity, that I realized just how abnormal being a heroin addict was.”
All the Ways I Failed at Rehab, and What Finally Worked
Relapse is a part of recovery, and did I ever learn that the hard way.