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The annual amount of Americans dying from liver disease and liver cancer has risen since 2009, according to a new study. The number of Americans aged 25-to-34 who died from cirrhosis rose by 10.5 [...]

What’s underneath the surface? We all can see the tip of the glacier that is sticking up in the water. What we refuse to acknowledge and talk about is all the “stuff” underneath [...]

We’ve often heard that alcohol, marijuana and nicotine, traditionally in the form of tobacco but increasingly as an oil in connection with vaping, are gateway drugs.  What that means is that [...]

For most people the answer is a resounding “yes.”  A patient’s drug of choice typically throws off his or her body chemistry to such a degree that they are no longer the same person you once [...]

A Kentucky couple realized that restaurants have an unusual power to help addicted people recover, and created DV8 Kitchen to hire, train and encourage them. ImageDV8 Kitchen in Lexington, Ky. [...]

Success in both recovery and life requires discipline and a certain amount of self-sacrifice. The following is a list of recommendations on what to “give up” in order to reach your full [...]

The  reality of alcoholism is that it will only get worse. Patterns of use follow a pathway snaking deeper and deeper into the murkiest reaches of human behavior. Tolerance steadily builds and [...]

Hello to all the wonderful folks involved with A Way Out.  While I am not able to attend the Alumni Picnic, I wanted to send my good wishes and my thanks for all you did for me during my tough [...]

Be you. Be ONLY you. Recovery is about rewriting your own story. All too often we beat ourselves up over mistakes and consequences of our addiction. Rewrite the story to embrace the journey and [...]

Some experts predict practices like MDMA therapy will be legal in as little as three years. Photo via Shutterstock An event begins, like so many ritualized psychedelic experiences do, with a [...]