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Dear Lindsay Lohan (Failure to Beat Addiction is Not Your Fault)
I’ve wanted to write a letter to Lindsay Lohan for a while now. Her failed attempts with rehab point to a failed approach in our treatments and institutions to help the addict recover. I wish Lindsay...
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Signs of an Addictive Personality
Whether the addictive personality exists is very much open to debate. While it’s a popular notion, the idea that one particular personality is more susceptible to addiction than others is met with...
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Signs of an Addictive Personality
Whether the addictive personality exists is very much open to debate. While it’s a popular notion, the idea that one particular personality is more susceptible to addiction than others is met with...
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Book Review: In the Pleasure Groove by John Taylor
I’m going to come clean right away and admit I have a bias in reviewing In The Pleasure Groove by John Taylor. I’m a card-carrying Duranie. Literally, when I was a teen I had packs of those bubble gum...
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Book Review: The Long, Steep Path by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Long, Steep Path: Everyday Inspiration from the Author of Pay It Forward is Catherine Ryan Hyde’s long-awaited memoir (I’ve been waiting for it for almost a decade, so I assume others have as...
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XXXchurch Strategizes Against Porn Addiction
Stop rubbing your eyes; you’re seeing it correctly. It’s not every day that you’d think to find those three red X’s alongside the word “church,” but in this case, the two actually do go hand-in-hand....
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Book Review: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can’t by Augusten...
I hate self-help books. It’s not just because I feel they are basically about taking advantage of other’s misfortune or on the whole useless. No, the real reason I hate them is what the words self-help...
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The Book and the Film: The 70th Anniversary of Charles R. Jackson’s ‘The Lost...
“Suddenly I could see the whole thing – the tragic sweep of the great novel, beautifully proportioned. But before I could really grab it and throw it down on paper, the drink would wear off and...
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Interview: Dr. Suzana E. Flores, Author of ‘Facehooked’
“Keeping up with our friends on Facebook is fun and entertaining, but if we consistently choose it over real-life connection, we miss out on so much more. The Internet and social media have made our...
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Finding Your Indomitable Spirit to Defeat Addiction
Recently, I was lifted to new levels of inspiration by the story of Louis Zamperini in Unbroken, a film about a WWII veteran who survived being tortured in a Japanese POW camp, and also by the...
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Book Review: ‘Breaking Through: Discovering the Riches Within’ by Allan...
Breaking Through is McDougall’s inspirational story of astonishing transformation from a hard rock miner in Northern Ontario, as deep in alcoholism as he was underground, and his journey back into the...
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Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘Water By the Spoonful’ by Quiara Alegría Hudes...
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Quiara Algeria Hudes’ Water By the Spoonful is the middle play in a Philadelphia-set trilogy that centers on Elliot Ortiz (Paul Ramos), a wounded Iraq war...
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Book Review: ‘Walking Out the Other Side’ by Alan S. Charles
Alan S. Charles, like most of us, has had a life that could be viewed as full of wonderful things, or viewed as full of pain and misery. In other words, he is a prime example of the human condition, of...
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What’s Love Got to do with ADHD?
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to grow up relying on medications to control your behavior? “There’s this frustration, this anxiousness, not knowing who I actually am without the medication,”...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Strange Country’ by Anne Adams
The “strange country” of Anne Adams’s new play by that title is not the small-town Texas where it takes place. It’s the gnarled country of the minds and hearts of its three damaged, all-too-real...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Motherf**cker with the Hat’ by Stephen Adly Guirgis
If the fresh new off-off-Broadway revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**cker with the Hat means to play off the Off-Broadway success in 2014-15 of Guirgis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Between...
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The Dangers of Opioid Addiction in Women
Opioid use has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, posing new challenges for first responders, community service organizations, and healthcare professionals, among others. The use of...
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Life Behind Bars’ Written and Performed by Dan Ruth
Dan Ruth in ‘A Life Behind Bars’ Monologuist, comic, and bartender Dan Ruth has seen and heard an awful lot – and a lot that’s awful – in his decades treading the behind-the-bar boards in the taverns...
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Addiction Recovery: The Mind-Body-Soul Approach
You don’t have to do much research to confirm that our country is facing a massive crisis of opioid abuse, alcohol dependency, and addiction to both legal and illegal substances. The justice system and...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘You Exist Too Much’ By Zaina Arafat
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat, published by Catapult Press, tells the story of a twenty-something bisexual Palestinian American woman recovering from growing up with a narcissistic mother. Not...
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