The pain and suffering of addiction are not limited to the person abusing substances. Loved Ones share a tremendous burden as well.

We don’t have to let a bad day turn into a bad week, month, or turn into us throwing the entire year away (I’m looking at you, 2020.)

This wide array of beliefs opens the door to the discussion about how MAT is being used or not used to support recovery.

The creative process is not just found on a canvas, it is an endless list: found in cooking, singing alone in your car, in lifting weights, how we solve problems, arranging flowers, playing an instrument, dancing, and in tending to a garden.

I wanted to be like the people that I came to when I was having a crisis.[...] I wanted to be that person for those girls too.

I was actually offered a job by the same branch of The Counseling Center that I went through. I'm the first person to ever go through that program to get rehired.

An interview with Pamela Black, Alumni of The Counseling Center

A large number of people were not raised in environments where these ideas are taught or experienced during their upbringing.

If we are not careful we continue to avoid our emotions and seek somnolence - in a glass bottle; a pill bottle; or a bag.

But with all that being said, that’s all it takes: a person and the substance. Nothing has to “cause” the disorder – it can present by itself.