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Various well known figures in Entertainment talk to Larry King about there battles with Drug Addiction.
Month: May 2009
When I first got clean, I was really worried about how I would ever have fun sober. I have since then found all kinds of ways to have fun without using drugs. Last night was a total blast. One of my best friends in recovery celebrated two years clean, so to celebrate, we all went out to Joe’s Crab Shack in Los Angeles. I don’t know what the waitress could have thought about our motley crew. If I’d never gotten clean I would never have known all of these beautiful and interesting people. I love my strange group of friends! We come from all walks of life, yet manage to connect and identify because we share similar feelings and a passion for recovery.
At the end of my using, nothing was funny. I was like a robot going through the motions of life. When I went to rehab, I started to laugh again. One of the first things I noticed in adolescent drug treatment was that my stomach muscles actually hurt from laughing so much. It was like my soul had finally come back to life. Last night reminded me of that. We stayed until closing, talking and laughing and eating massive amounts of seafood. When I was using, I never had the connections and levels of friendship that I do today. If you had told me when I was new to recovery that I would choose hanging out with a bunch of sober people eating crabs than using drugs, I would have never believed you, but I am so glad that I stuck it out long enough to find such happiness and freedom. It is an amazing thing after such fear and unhappiness to feel so carefree.
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A new study by the UC Irvine has concluded that Anger Management may help smokers quit. The study showed that people with “angry dispositions” are more likely to start smoking and become addicted to nicotine, as nicotine produces a calming effect in the brain, and that anger provokes nicotine withdrawal and craving. As a recovering drug addict and nicotine addict, I can easily see how anger management tools helped me recover.
I didn’t think of myself as an angry person when I went into treatment. I didn’t lash out at people and I never got into fights. I was in fact fairly passive, but any time I got angry, I took it out on myself through self injury, using drugs, or just letting it brew into a nice, deep, depression. It was a scary thing for me to learn how to get angry. I was afraid of losing control. I didn’t understand why my counselors thought that this timid person should have to be counseled on anger issues. I began to learn that my anger and the destructive ways I dealt with it (or didn’t deal with it) were at the root of my problem. In anger management therapy, I learned how to most practically apply all of the things I learned in treatment. It was the way I learned to apply steps one two and three in the moment. I learned a lot of things in treatment, but whenever I got angry was when I had to road-test my new tools. Instead of reaching outward for a drink, a drug, a razor blade, or food, I learned how to reach for the new tools I had begun to develop. Anger management therapy doesn’t mean I will never get angry again, it just means that my anger doesn’t have to be a destructive force in my life anymore.
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