As a child growing up in Plainview, Garrett Kassler loved the Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Once a teenager, it was water and the outdoors. He wanted to open a scuba diving shop, live

My first support group – or group of 3 clean, recovering friends I made in NA when I first came around – are a big part of my personal recovery journey and of my getting and staying clean. I held on to

I realized something tonight. You're never too old to learn something and tonight - while in class to become a drug counselor - I learned something about my life. What I learned answered a lifelong question

Traditional treatment for drug addiction isn't working . Despite a variety of so called "evidence-based" treatments, we find ourselves in the deadliest drug epidemic in history. Nationwide, 142

Let me start off my blogging journey by talking about a recent happening in my recovery process. It’s yet another experience I stayed clean through, and can put on the “shelf” to draw upon at some time

![2017photo.JPG] ( My name is Eden Laikin, I have 21 years clean from drug and alcohol addiction and I'm all about recovery today. I'm here to show and tell you, that the lie is dead - We do recover! And