No, hedgehogs and heroin don’t mix. Never have. Never will. Just ask PetTube Star Taylor Nicole Dean. She built a career from her hedgehog. Then nearly killed it with heroin. She also almost killed herself in the process. The Making of a PetTube Star Like many a PetTube star, Taylor Nicole Dean didn’t begin by thinking her clips would make… Read More
You can’t overestimate the importance of patience in recovery. You just can’t. In fact, the ability to endure difficult circumstances is the very key to successful recovery. That goes for day-to-day difficulties, as well as those of long-term variety. And people in recovery face more than their fair share of both. Adding a pandemic to the equation can easily turn… Read More
“Why Purpose and Discipline Promote Psychological Well-Being” might not at first sound like the kind of clip that will help free you from addictions, but this Academy of Ideas offering does just that. And it only takes seven minutes to boot! The help yourself tutorial begins by railing against freedom. Well, railing against having too much of it anyway. Why?… Read More
Dylan Dailor is on the autism spectrum. Always has been. Always will be. Yet he refused to let it defeat him. Then Dylan had his wisdom teeth removed and he became an addict too. But his TEDx Talk Autism and Addiction proves he still refuses to be defeated. From Autism to Addiction Dylan Dailor says the last time he didn’t… Read More
The Rat Park Addiction Experiment proved there’s both an existential and environmental component to addiction. Or didn’t it? Four decades later scientists are still disagreeing about the study’s findings. So we’re here to ask, once and for all: Could Rat Park really be a thing? The Rat Park Addiction Experiment Back in the late ’70s, Canadian psychologist Bruce Alexander and… Read More
