“As soon as you stop negotiating with yourself, it's amazing what you can accomplish,” he says. “I'm just doing it.” He sees that internal debate as the real obstacle. The moment you start weighing whether to act, whether it's getting up early, making a call or pushing through a tough stretch, you've already created an exit ramp.
Investing in programs that connect those struggling with addiction with both medical services and support from peers who have gone through the recovery process has been shown to be one of the most effective paths to helping people out of addiction. Peer specialists offer something no other provider can provide: the credibility of a shared experience and evidence that recovery is possible.
The warm weather initiative began on March 30, according to a memo the Wu administration's Coordinated Response Team sent to the City Council on Monday. The CRT is an interdepartmental group that works to eliminate outdoor substance use and connect people suffering from addiction with treatment and recovery options.
The Percocet dulled his foot pain and also his anxiety. Rideout was used to alcohol and cocaine, but this was different. He felt happy, confident and optimistic. He returned to the podiatrist for more pills. Then more. Soon he was altering the prescriptions manually, changing a seven into a two and adding a zero, before targeting smaller pharmacies that wouldn't run verification checks.
His heart did in fact stop beating during the incident on Dec. 9, 2025. He said that he does not really remember much about it, but that he was told he stopped breathing and that he was turning purple. Dick said the only thing he did recall was waking up in the ambulance.
I probably thought about it the most before I went to rehab aged 25. Because I felt I'd lived an entire life then. I was so lost and I was trying everything - trying a bit of a job, a bit of a drug. I went through tonnes of friendship groups and people. I was so discombobulated and I felt my oldest then.
"If you use drugs on our streets we will arrest you, but with this new resource we will also give those suffering from addiction a real chance to choose recovery," said San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie.
The team recently defeated holders Crystal Palace in the FA Cup which will go down as one of the competition's biggest shock results, and currently sit sixth in the table, vying for promotion to the National League. The Silkmen and their supporters have been on a rollercoaster journey since former club Macclesfield Town were wound up by the High Court in September 2020, leaving fans with the prospect of no longer having a team to follow.
"But I had a real issue for five years, around COVID, when I got sepsis, I fell into a hole... I had a problem with addiction, drugs and alcohol, it was rough, five years of it. The longest I was sober within those five years was two weeks, and those weeks were usually before fights. I'd slow down two weeks before the fight, come to the fight underprepared, out of shape; it was rough. It's crazy I stayed in the rankings the whole time."
Kintsugi 金継ぎ is known as the Japanese art of putting broken things back together, like broken pottery, using materials mixed with powdered gold and other elements. Instead of hiding damage, this technique celebrates the restoration of an object once viewed as broken, flawed, or imperfect. This same process can be seen as a metaphor for addiction recovery. Even for people with addiction who willingly choose recovery, there's an element of being remade that can't be ignored. Addicts often go through a period of denial.
He played the wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010) and in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018); he also portrayed Caius Vulturi in the Twilight saga (2009) and Jace Wayland in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013). But the role that has truly catapulted actor as well as singer and model Jamie Campbell Bower, 37, to wider recognition is that of the antagonist in the popular Netflix series Stranger Things.
On Tuesday, Redd posted an emotional video to Instagram in which he described his relationship with Evangeline as a "very unique, nuanced thing" that began while he was dealing with "pill problems and issues" during his five-season stint on "SNL." Evangeline, he said, was "the only one to call me on my shit, help me on my shit," and encouraged him to start therapy.
Notorious California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa says he may move to Texas after Prop 50 will likely make it impossible for him to win another election here. "I have to go where I can be of the most use," he said. [Bay Area News Group] A new poll suggests voters will be very unhappy with Republicans if their healthcare premiums spike next year. [New York Times]
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Researchers have found that mentalization is an undervalued treatment for people in addiction recovery. Mentalization-based treatment helps people reflect upon and redirect urges and impulses. Knowing one's mind, feelings, triggers, and motivations, however conflicted, improves outcomes in work, love, life, and re-creating a life. Better understanding of the inner states and traits of others is also useful. Secure attachment fosters mentalization or a capacity to understand, process, and manage one's inner life.
Now is not the time to see those videos. I don't think either of you is in the place to navigate the emotions they're going to dredge up. Moreover, if and when you do see them, that act needs to have a recovery-focused purpose. If they will help you make more specific amends or if he needs you to see something specific so that you can process together, that's one thing. But it doesn't sound like that's where either of you is at present.
The Reverend Joyce McDonald says a pastor once told her to "ask God what type of artist you are." She says God responded, "You're a testimonial artist." McDonald's testimonies come in the form of mostly unfired clay sculptures, sometimes embellished with glitter, nail polish, fabric, or paper towels. These figures are very small and simple (a mother and child, a woman praying) and almost naïve in affect (they carry titles like
Some of the funniest bits are about her raising her son. When she's ashamed of yelling at him: "It's like bitch-slapping E.T." When another mother in her son's class makes a passive-aggressive comment: "I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish."
Before Sergio Ardila joined the board of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, he was one of its clients. Ardila, who describes himself as a recovering addict, attended his first Narcotics Anonymous meeting at the center in 2022, through its Rainbow Recovery program, and received rental assistance from the organization during a period of unemployment. "My story with the center is very personal," Ardila said. "I got involved to give back what the center has given."
Westmeath GAA player Luke Loughlin has told TDs and senators that he "could not believe" the response when he opened up about his struggles with alcohol and substance abuse four years ago.
I've never seen him look prouder than when he showed me the keys to his new place, and frankly, I don't know if I had ever felt so proud of him. It's funny how you can juggle so many different emotions at the same time, because I also remember feeling scared and concerned. How could he possibly afford this apartment and all the pricey things that went with it, like internet access and utilities?
I rely on a generator, a deep freezer, and a grill People love to ask about the bathroom situation. I say, "Next question." I'm out here doing something extraordinary, working to save the world, and you want to know where I pee? I was an outsider, but felt at home on the island Sand Island is different: it's essentially a wasteland of sand and poison ivy. There were no structures or docks.
Many executives and professionals use alcohol not out of recklessness, but as a quiet coping mechanism—the after-hours drink that takes the edge off, the glass that settles nerves before a presentation, all rationalized by continued success.
"Sharma, a former leader in the recovery industry, is accused of submitting $149 million in fraudulent insurance claims, along with conducting unnecessary tests and paying illegal kickbacks."
