Basically, he says that addiction usually, perhaps always, happens when people don’t have strong bonds to others. Occasional drug use might occur, but not addiction. Portugal legalized drugs and put all the drug-fighting money into getting addicts integrated into society and connected, and addiction went way down.

Taking it Easy the First Year of Sobriety

When we first get sober, it’s an amazing experience. Months or years of hopelessness can suddenly turn into an optimism that we’ve never experienced before. Alcohol and drugs were our masters, and for many of us, our addiction to mind-altering substances…

LFirst of all, thank you.

I quit taking all psychoactive substances more than four years ago, and smoking was as hard to quit as drinking was, for they go hand in hand – for me at least.

What struck me while I was reading this was that four years down the line I can still get a powerful longing for a…