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It’s normal to feel alone from time to time. We all need human connection to feel happy and fulfilled. But sometimes, we can feel like we’re stuck in a rut of loneliness. We might feel like we’re the only one who feels this way, but that’s not true. There is hope for those who feel alone. There are ways to

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Strange Things Can Happen in Recovery I was asked to put this story down for the blog for ARCNH.  As I thought about it I was trying to figure how to put it down and the way I talk instead of the way I write so I’m dictating. This is part of my recovery story early on in recovery and

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Stigma and the Mirroring of the Human Condition When the word addiction was deliberately omitted from four consecutive editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM III, DSM IV and DSM IV-TR, it was because it was considered a layman’s rather than a scientific term, pejorative, stigmatizing, and too difficult to define. There were simply “too many

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Heroin Saved My Life… Just before it began to kill me When I was in the 5th grade, we had a D.A.R.E. awareness class every Wednesday with Officer Mazy, a kind, funny and handsome police officer in the city of Chelsea Massachusetts. We were the first of our class to participate in the initiative to educate children before the heavy

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Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. Anxiety is a normal emotion that helps people cope with difficult situations. It can become a problem when it’s out of proportion to the situation, when it interferes with daily activities, or when it leads to avoidance behaviors. There are

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