Addiction doesn’t stop at damaging your health. It can tear your finances apart, too. Whether you’ve lost your job due to alcohol use or blown through the family savings trying to reach your next high, once you exit recovery, you still have to eat. Keep reading for information on how to reclaim your financial health …
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Michael Herbert
Sometimes I use a butter knife as a screwdriver. I know that I am misusing this knife. I know that I should get a screwdriver, but either I’m lazy or just feel the knife will do the job just as well. That is the definition of misuse. With Butter Knife Misuse, nothing bad happens. No …
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Michael Herbert
Addiction has historically been something no one imagined being faced with when dreaming about what the future might hold. Even less consideration was given to what recovery might look like for those in that situation. Now, with the opioid epidemic spanning all boundaries of class and culture, life-threatening addiction has managed to touch virtually every …
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Michael Herbert
Loneliness is one of the biggest causes of addiction. But the other hand, losing oneself in the oblivion of isolation is a chronic symptom of addiction. The addict runs away from social contact and when alone they run away from themselves by drinking and drugging. It goes on and on in a vicious circle. It often comes …
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Michael Herbert
Imagine waking suddenly on the deck of a ship in the middle of a storm. You’re far out to sea, there isn’t any land as far as you can see. You’re not alone on this ship—your whole family is there with you—but how did you get here? The last thing you can remember is being …
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Michael Herbert
23 year old Colorado resident Tanya Guevara just wanted to get home safe and sound with her son on that day in 2010. But that would never happen, thanks to 22 year old drug user Steven Ryan, who took the pair’s lives in a marijuana-related auto crash. The court later sentenced Ryan to 10 years …
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Michael Herbert
I’m back from my trip to Peru. I was excited about going on this trip as it was going to be the first trip I’ve taken with a group. I usually travel alone, but this time I wanted to try something different. Prior to my trip I talked to several people about going to Peru …
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Michael Herbert
