Everyone expected the COVID pandemic to fuel the opioid epidemic, but no one expected such stratospheric overdose numbers. They sure didn’t expect those numbers to keep rising. Then again, how could they? No one had ever faced such a devastating one-two punch before.
If you’ve relapsed on the eve of your fifth Sobriety Birthday do you still come for the cake? That’s the question a man named Cameron has to ask himself in a keen short film called Cake Day. And it’s not an easily answered question either. Or is it? Perhaps there’s no question about the answer. You fess up. Admit the… Read More
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s position on vaccinating addicts in long-term care facilities is simply meant to mitigate the spread of coronavirus infections. That’s it. The fact that the edict specifically addresses long-term care facilities proves it too. “These are congregate facilities,” said the governor, regarding adding in-patient rehabs to the vaccine priority list. And “congregate facilities are problematic.” That… Read More
This story is as much about knitting and addiction as it is about a knitting addiction. But that’s not why we’re calling it sober yarn. Sure, it was tempting. After all, the Dad Joke is right there, ready to be told. But we don’t joke about addiction. We don’t Dad Joke about it either. See, we chose the title sober… Read More
Once upon another time, Ed Kressy couldn’t have cared less about being sober, let alone feeling frozen sober. Yet this year he travelled clear across the country in order to find out what it feels like to be just that. Before you break out the applause though, bear in mind that the man Kressy joined jumps into the Atlantic each… Read More
