Held Hostage by a RX Drug: My Klonopin Nightmare I'm breaking up with Klonopin. Klonopin is the brand name of a drug that belongs to a group called benzodiazepines , or "benzos&...

Finalist Essay: Amanda Keaty Over the past week, I've shared the winning essay and the runner-up essay from the first My Life as 3D Scholarship Essay Contest. Toda...

The Bergamot: Help This Great Group Make Their Next Record I rarely use this blog to talk about things that aren't somehow related to addiction. I can probably count the number of times I've ...

High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction I just posted a review of the monumental new book by David and Nic Sheff. It's called High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alc...

An Interview with "The Bitter Taste of Dying" Author Jason Smith (Plus a Book Giveaway!) (Note: A shortened version of this blog post also appears on The Huffington Post's blog site as "An Interview with Jason Smith, Au...

Turning Scabs into Jewelry Anyone reading this who actually knows me would probably confirm that I'm a little bit different. My sense of humor is not exactly "...

Goodbye, Klonopin Almost a year ago, I wrote a blog post entitled "Held Hostage by a RX Drug: My Klonopin Nightmare." In it, I talk about my horrif...

Thanksgiving Gratitude It's been forever since I've written anything for this blog, and even longer since I've written anything of a personal nature he...

We Have a Scholarship Winner!! April 2nd of last year was the first time I publicly shared my desire to help siblings of addicts. In a blog post I wrote: "I'd...