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casual musings on life through the lens of addiction, recovery, alcohol, and all the other drugs like your smartphone

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#19 A bird flies into a windowA shi**y essay with a potentially good point
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#18 Why recovery matters more than ever, my first and last beauty tipThe past few weeks I’ve been at a loss for what to say here, so I haven’t said much. There is so much pain and so much inhumanity and so much grief, so so much wrong, it’s made me question what the point of my own life is, or at least the point of my work which I sometimes…
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#20 The mistake you keep makingI’d meant to leave for California Wednesday, even though I’d meant to leave in March and actually had finally meant to leave this past Saturday. I ended up leaving last night. 99% of what I had to do was done, but like always these days I found a reason to extend it, to smooth…
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#17 Endings, BeginningsOn Tuesday of last week, Tempest (fka Hip Sobriety) was acquired by Monument, an early stage organization that provides MAT (medication-assisted treatment) and therapy to help folks stop drinking. That might mean nothing to you, or maybe it means everything. I don’t know how to…
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🎧 Recovering's First (and potentially last?) Podcast with Dr. Carl Erik FisherListen now (68 min) | Is there such a thing as an addictive personality? Is addiction a feature of humanity, or a bug? And is searching for a cure…
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#12 "I was still left with this big question: what exactly had gone wrong in me?"9 Questions with Dr. Carl Fisher, author of The Urge, on the disease model, addiction supply industries, the difference between faith and hope, and the…
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