September is National Recovery Month for those suffering from addiction. The month represents encouraging people to seek treatment and expressing empathy and understanding of their addiction. Addiction is something that has likely touched all of our lives in some way, and it is important that we understand some of the forces behind it so we ...

Content Warning: contains references to assault, drug use, death of a parent, and child abuse. When we spotted her, she sat in the corner. A tiny child holding a doll, she picked its poofed hair with the ferocity of potential future trichotillomania. Her skin’s patches of white and darker tan contrasted with the doll’s color ...

Read: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 |  Part 7  | Part 8 Izzie Mills tried to keep her composure as she looked around the room and the strangers who sat in a circle filled room. She could feel them all drawing the attention away from them to her. Damn, did ...

Read: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 |  Part 7 Izzie was getting more anxious to begin her first group meeting.  She was happy to see that more people were coming in. She decided to go out back to her office for a few minutes to review the list of people ...

*** Trigger Warning*** Drug Use   he had tired eyes and a knack for killing pain  sometimes i think  he coulda killed me  but he knew  how to keep flowers alive long enough so the garden looked beautiful     but he was dead roses  with thorns still sharp  and i  i was bloody fingers ...

Read: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6  Izzie, 32 Izzie Mills looked at the list outside of her office.”Unbelievable not a single person has signed up.” She scolded herself, “Damn it!” As she did this, she grabbed her mini hand sanitizer from her purse.  She cleaned her hands one more time. ...

Read: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 James 30 James woke up early to head into his long shift at work. It was only 5:30 a.m., and he had already hit the snooze button several times. Shit, I better get up before I am really late. He jumped into the shower and tried to take ...

Read: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Lexi, age 30 Lexi Adams sat on her new desk going over some cases she needed to have done by the end of the week. Man, this sucks, why didn’t I work on them last weekend as I should’ve, and on top of all that I am hungry ...

As of recent, I found a show on HBO called Euphoria. It was just released, starring Zendaya, produced by Drake. When I see those names, I remember Degrassi and The Disney Channel. Perhaps, I was searching for a bit of nostalgia when I opened the link and began watching. There was no way to prepare for ...