CDC: Alcohol Kills More People than Opioids
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON FOX5NY.COM Alcohol-related causes kill 88,000 people—more than from opioids—each year in the United States, according to data from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But when it comes to alcohol and health risks, it can seem like no one is talking about it. […]
USA Today: Alcohol is Killing More People, and Younger. The Biggest Increases are Among Women
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON USATODAY.COM OAKTON, Va. – The last time lawyer Erika Byrd talked her way out of an alcohol rehab center, her father took her to lunch. “Dad, I know what alcohol has done to me,” she told him that day in January 2011. “I know what it has made me do to […]
Everyone In My Law Firm Knows I’m Sober (and I Don’t Care)
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON THE TEMPER The morning I decided to check myself into a psychiatric hospital for a medicated detox, my biggest fear wasn’t that I had no idea what I’d find behind the doors of its locked-down unit. It wasn’t telling my friends and family about the ‘round-the-clock alcohol and cocaine addiction […]
Was I Ready for Sober Sex?
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON LIGHT HUSTLER At one o’clock on a Sunday morning in 2005, I sped west toward Salt Lake City in a rented Ford Fiesta on Route I-80, escaping my friend’s wedding at a Park City yoga studio. I gripped the wheel as if it were a waterski handle. A pitch black […]
Pop Sugar: 17 Heart-Wrenching Memoirs About Addiction
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON POPSUGAR.COM It was the day after an emotional This Is Us episode: Justin Hartley’s character had painfully descended into a Vicodin addiction and viewers feared the worst. He stole a prescription pad and wrote himself a fatal dose of fentanyl, the addictive and sometimes deadly opiate drug. As a fan […]
When Saying No to a Boozy Work Event Isn’t an Option
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON WORKITHEALTH.COM Handling an alcohol-laden work event is tricky in recovery. Lisa Smith, author of ‘Girl Walks Out of a Bar,’ shares her strategies for attending boozy work events in sobriety. Before I got sober, I liked to think that I was the life of the party. At a work conference, […]
Hi, Sobriety: Our Changing Relationship with Alcohol
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON THESYNDNEYMORNINGHERALD.COM “Grey-area drinkers” aren’t falling-over drunks, but nor is their relationship with booze healthy. In recent times, many have been giving up or cutting back – being sober is the new black. By Brook Turner Kristen Allan vividly remembers the moment she decided to quit drinking for good. It was […]
Taking It on the Road: Tips for Sober Business Travelers
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON WORKITHEALTH.COM Traveling for business?Tips on how to stay sober from Lisa Smith, author of Girl Walks Out of a Bar. Only a few weeks after I got sober, I had to travel for a work conference. I would be ejected from my newly established recovery cocoon in New York City […]
Back to Work: Tips for Office Life in Early Recovery
THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED ON WORKITHEALTH.COM How can you stay sober during the transition back to work?Tips from Lisa Smith, author of Girl Walks Out of a Bar. Sitting on my flimsy cot at the psychiatric hospital on the fifth and final day of my detox from alcohol and cocaine, I looked at the doctor […]
A Women’s Thing Magazine – Cracked Crystal Promises
THIS ARTICLE iS PUBLISHED IN A WOMEN’S THING MAGAZINE. Cracked Crystal Promises Download the PDF