by bradford | Jun 2, 2020 | Recovery
One of the beautiful things about the recovery process is how, when we emerge from the fog of addiction and alcoholism, we begin to understand that we have something to offer the world around us, and we start to ask the question: What can I do to help? In times of...
by bradford | Aug 13, 2020 | Recovery 101 Living Sober, Recovery
There’s an acronym recovering addicts hear early on: H.A.L.T. It stands for “Hungry, Angry, Lonely and Tired.” It’s a warning sign, our peers and predecessors tell us, that we need to watch out for. Addicts, especially those early in recovery,...
by bradford | Aug 18, 2020 | Recovery
Like a thief under cover of darkness, COVID-19 has stolen from the East Tennessee addiction recovery community. At the same time it has decimated the population at large, claiming more than 170,000 American lives and infecting more than 5 million people in this...
by bradford | Aug 28, 2020 | Recovery 101 Living Sober, Recovery
In late March, six months before Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and as the COVID-19 pandemic tightened its chokehold on all aspects of East Tennessee life, the Knox County Regional Forensics Center found itself investigating nine suspected suicides in a 48-hour...
by bradford | Aug 28, 2020 | Recovery 101 Living Sober, Recovery
Monday, Aug. 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day, and as the eighth month of 2020 comes to a close, the numbers of those who lose their lives to addiction are grim. After falling by 4.6 percent in 2018 — from 70,237 [1] to 60,367 [2] — overdose deaths rose...
by bradford | Sep 4, 2020 | Recovery
Few components of drug and alcohol treatment are more misunderstood than spirituality and addiction recovery. As such, spirituality and addiction recovery can often be a tangled web that to those outside of the process seems cult-like, and to those just starting out...