Easy Ways I Manage My Chronic Pain After Opioids
Living with chronic pain was never on my radar. If you can take medicine that lets you be pain-free, why wouldn’t you? Well, that was before ....
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How I Began to Defy the Stigma About Opioid Addiction and Live My Best Life
When I was younger, I cared so much about what other people thought about me. If someone didn’t like me and I wanted them to, it was the end of the world.
If I Could Go Back, I Still Would Have Taken That First Pill
If only I had gone with my gut and stopped taking opioids after 2 months despite my doctor’s advice, and if only I had known how dangerous and addictive ...
Is There Really No Such Thing As Being ‘Recovered’ From Addiction?
It’s been 11 years since I overcame opioid addiction. Last year, I went through the process of becoming an addiction recovery coach in the hopes of helping others ....
Navigating a Fractured Health Care System While Recovering from Substance Abuse
As someone with a history of both a substance abuse disorder, as well as other mental health care needs, who has been through his fair share ...
How Long It Takes To Go Back to Normal After Opioid Addiction
Well for starters, “normal” is incredibly relative. Normal for you? Normal for your life? Or just how things were before you started taking opioids ...