Outstanding Addiction And Addiction Recovery Blogs And Bloggers

Dear Bill,
Thank you so much for your endorsement of my blog!
Lisa

Bill,

Thank you so much for sharing this information with the rest of us. So many bloggers are afraid that by sharing information, they’ll lose readers. In your case, by doing this, you are adding to your credibility by sharing additional resources that may help others out.

I just love addiction news network. I get all my news on addiction from them. Some of the other blogs I knew, some I didn’t. Which is great, as now I’ve got even more reading material on the subject. Thanks a lot for a great list, and keep up the good work!

Can I take part of your post to my blog?

From Addict to Recovery to Author
Before I found recovery, loneliness, and the feeling that I was different from everyone else is something that I live with for most of my life. Maybe it was because of the way I was treated as a child. The physical and mental abuse I received for my mother, like she hated me. My parents were divorced when I was two years old. Just after I turned fourteen. My mother showed me how much she loved me when she told me to pack my things and get out of her house. I never returned and I never went back to school. After leaving home, and the horrible events that followed I did not and could not trust anyone especially myself. The only time I could trust anyone was after I took so many drugs or drink so much alcohol or both, that I was too wasted to even care. It was the only time, I felt numb enough to put my guard down and have fun for a while. As my life went on. I became addicted to anything mind altering. I survived many traumatic events. I felt like I was the only kid in the world who did not have a home or parents who love them. I was pregnant at the age of sixteen, and I lost my daughter when she was five to my addiction. I blamed my parents for not loving me or my daughter enough to help me with her for a short while to keep them from taking her away from me. At the same time. I hated myself for letting this happen, for doing this to my daughter. I loved and missed her so much. I felt deeper and deeper into my addiction. The loneliness and the feeling that I was no good ate away at me with each passing day and left me with no hope, that I would ever be normal or happy or feel safe. If it wasn’t for me hanging on to the thought that just maybe, someday I would see my daughter Jessica again. I would of most likely ended my life. My addiction lasted thirty-one years altogether. And I endured a life that came with it. Two violent rapes, drug, alcohol, physical and mental abuse. There was an attempt on my life and it took emergency brain surgery to save my life. In addition to all that I was in and out of jail more times than I could remember. When I finally realized that I could not go on living my life addicted to drugs, and that I truly wanted my life to change. I was very discouraged, because I had no faith and doubted my ability to change. The last time I went to jail saved my life. Because I was lucky enough to be placed into a drug rehabilitation program. In this program I was given an assignment to write my life story and read it in front of the whole class. I did not want to do this. I was so scared. I really thought I was different from everyone else, but I wanted my life to change so bad that I did it. It was hard for me, but after reading it out loud. I felt a sense of freedom, that I never felt before. And the support I got from the people in my class was amazing. That is when I started to learn that maybe I could trust others. I had to learn to trust and to have faith in myself, in my recovery, and in others. If I truly wanted to change. I had to start learning to trust myself before I could truly trust others. I learned to stop pointing my finger at others and start taking responsibility for my own actions. I had to learn to forgive and to ask for forgiveness. I learned to stop allowing myself to be controlled by guilt and except myself for who I was and know that I could not change my past. But my future was completely up to me. ONLY I could decide how I wanted to live the rest of my life. I learned to have faith in myself and in others. I worked through the doubt I had about my ability to change. I found myself looking forward to change, and how my future could be. It was very exciting to me. When I graduated from the program. I met a woman in the rooms of Narcotics Anonymous. She had twenty-seven years clean and was a great inspiration to me. I let her read my life story, which was only about twenty one pages long. But after reading it. She told me that I should think about writing a book. That I had a story to tell that would help others in recovery. Recovery taught me to trust myself and to have faith. Therefore, I spent the next three and a half years turning the short version of my life story into a book. It was very painful for me to write, but I did it because I wanted to help others. I wanted to bring meaning to my life and to make a difference. In writing my book. I knew I could not change my past. I could not control what I had to write in those chapters. Though I could control, what was going to be in the chapters of my life that stood ahead of me (done) from that day forward. I, and I only have control over my future and how I want to spend the rest of my life. It is what I do, the choices I make, that creates the outcome of my life. You cannot blame others for your addiction. You cannot blame the rain for getting you wet simply put, if you don’t want to get wet then don’t stand in the downpour. You have to go inside somewhere that keeps you warm and dry and clean. I went into the rooms of Narcotics Anonymous. The same concept applies to you if you are hanging around people who are using drugs or drinking alcohol. You need to get out of the trap and get away from the people that are unhealthy for you, your mind, and your recovery. You also have to stay away from negative people and surround yourself with positive people. Negativity hold you back from seeing how really beautiful life can be. It keeps you from seeing the goodness in people. It keeps you from knowing who you really are. It stops you from letting go of the past and makes you unwilling to change. Bottom line, it keeps you very lonely and in emotionally unstable. I did not want to be lonely anymore. I spent most of my life that way. I wanted to learn how it felt to be proud of myself and what it felt like to actually live. We all want these things. All we have to do is not use no matter what and be willing to change. My negative sense of myself was replaced by an exciting, positive acceptance of myself, for my life, and for others. My acceptance lead me to my recovery and my recovery gave me a new life. It is like the serenity prayer says “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”changes not easy. But if you are truly ready and willing to change. And you do, what is suggested. Then recovery will work for you. Your life will start getting better and better as your recovery progresses. Better than you might ever have imagined it could be. sometimes I excepted change willingly, sometimes reluctantly, because change can be a bit scary at times. Usually, my reaction was a bit of both but being heavy on the willingly side because I knew I had to be willing to change if I wanted to recover. We are just adjusting to another way of living. Changes now a part of our lives, and it will take us where we need to go. Change is what recovery is all about. Recovery saved my life and can save yours too if you truly want it.

In February 2009 this hard core drug addict became a published author of the book TRAPpEd You can find it on my website, Amaxon and Barns and Noble.com. My book has are ready helped many people. And you can’t imagine how grateful I am that I am clean today in helping others in their recovery and watching others do the same. I found a family in NA and for that I am grateful. God Bless

Hi….I think the info on your site it critical to helping educate people on the affects of addiction – of ANY kind. Thank you for your contributions…

What I have realized in recent weeks is that the stigma around having issues with alcohol or drugs within a family not only pushes out the user, but affects the family.

I would like to offer a new perspective on being an ‘anonymous’ partner of someone with alcohol addiction. That there IS NO shame in having an addiction or living with someone with one – god knows there are people in this world with all kinds of addictions they are afraid to talk about them, (including me and my addiction to being on my mac!) and the sooner we remove shame and blame, the quicker we will all be able to accept ourselves as whole and capable.

I hope that everyone finds some solace on a website somewhere – and can find courage within to share their story, release it and be at peace with their Self.

I invite all to visit my site for a new perspective on living with someone who is in process of recovering from their addictions http://www.mybigwhiteelephant.com

Thanks….

the patient wife

I am glad to find your site where it look like you help people with good information on addiction and recovery. I am a psychiatrist that specializes in addiction and have recently started a blog on addiction including cutting edge research as well as experience from my practice. Please check it out and let me know what you think. I am passionate about helping people with this disease. I recently published a book to help spouses of alcoholics.

I’m trying to find other bloggers on blogspot who I can follow and who will follow me and support each other in recovery.

Thanks for sharing this information. Check out my site although it is not strictly about addiction or dealing with addiction it covers a plethora of things. I have been working in the field of addiction now for close to 9 years. Thanks again for sharing.

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Thanks for sharing these blogs… There is a group of parents who blog about the challenges of their teen and adult children’s addictions. I don’t mean to promote my blog here, except that it has a links to many of these blogs. If we all work together…

Thanks for what you do,
“Mom vs Heroin”
.-= Athena´s last blog ..Quiet time Not Likely =-.

Hi. I loved your site. I am a nurse who fell to narcotic addiction a few years ago. I have developed a site to help healthcare providers who are or have struggled with addiction. I would love for you to look at my site and let me know what you think.
http://www.nursenrecovery.com
Thanks!

I ran a search on addiction and recovery and I came across this page. It seems very interesting and I truly think it can help many people. Check it out. I’m sure it can help you! http://www.holisticconferenceinfo.com/

Hi Jennett, I’m a mental health Nurse Practitioner and I work with in patient chemical dependency clients. You are in a very difficult position. There is not much you can do for someone unwilling to stop using. I strongly recommend that your mother stop bailing him out of jail. You must show tough love in order for him to find his own will to overcome his use which often means allowing him to hit rock bottom. Until he decides that he wants to quite using because things have gotten so bad, nothing will change and your mother, even though her hearts in the right place, is enabling him to continue down this road. If you want something to change, you must do something different. Set strong boundaries, let him know that you love him but will no longer support his addiction financially. You are in a really difficult position and I would recommend a support group for yourself and your family. It sounds like you are doing everything you can to help him by caring for his children.

I am very passionate about helping those afflicted with addiction and am starting a long term care treatment center. I would greatly appreciate your feedback on a quick survey (www.northwesttreatmentcenter.wordpress.com) so I am better equipped to help those in need. If you have any further questions, feel free to leave a comment on the survey.

Hello Bill,

Will you check out my blog joseph-recoveryconnections.blogspot.com and send me some feedback. Thank You!