Cannabis and Productivity
Productivity Can Hide Decline When Survival Replaces Progress Cannabis often earns its place in people’s lives because it does not…
The High Functioning Alcoholic
The Myth That Alcoholics Cannot Hold Jobs South Africa has built its idea of an alcoholic around the most dramatic…
How Unhealed Shame Drives Addiction Back Into the Shadows
Shame Is the Engine Room of Self-Sabotage in Addiction Shame is one of the most corrosive emotional forces in addiction.…
Addiction, The Most Misunderstood Red Flags
The Problem With the Stereotype of What an “Addict” Looks Like Most people have an image in their head of…
The Lies Addicts Tell, And the Lies Families Believe
Why Addiction Turns Everyone Into a Storyteller Addiction turns life into a world of half-truths, omissions, and carefully edited explanations.…
Recovery Is Still a Game of Luck for Too Many
If addiction is the great equaliser, touching every age, race, class, and background, then recovery should be too. But it…
The Disappearing Act of Addiction
Addiction isn’t always loud. It doesn’t always end in flashing lights, broken bottles, or public collapse. Sometimes it’s quiet, a…
Can You Be “Clean” If You’re on Psychiatric Drugs?
It’s one of the most divisive questions in recovery circles: can you call yourself clean if you’re still taking psychiatric…
The Addict’s Apology Tour, When Guilt Becomes Its Own Drug
Recovery is often described as liberation, freedom from chaos, deceit, and dependence. But for many people, it begins with something…