# Articles about addiction worth reading
**URL:** https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891
**Category:** Knowledge
**Tags:** sobriety
**Created:** [April 7, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891 "2022-04-07T16:02:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mno](https://talkingsober.com/u/Mno)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/1 "2022-04-07T16:02:38Z")
Just read this article and thought it might be interesting for some of you too. Feel free to ad your own. I might ad some more too.
> **[Was I really an addict? How the pandemic made me realize I had an alcohol...](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/apr/07/women-drinking-problem-alcoholism-covid-pandemic)**
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> I finally saw myself as a person who didn’t need alcohol to make it through the day: I was enough without it
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### Author:  [@ShesGotMoxie](https://talkingsober.com/u/ShesGotMoxie)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/2 "2022-04-07T16:13:32Z")
Her experiences deeply resonate with me. Thanks so much for sharIng. 🤍
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### Author:  [@ShesGotMoxie](https://talkingsober.com/u/ShesGotMoxie)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/3 "2022-04-07T20:31:00Z")
> **[I Had To Get Sober To Be The Mom I Wanted To Be](https://www.scarymommy.com/sober-to-be-better-mom)**
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> I've been sober for one year. And I'm a better mother without alcohol. I'm a better wife. I'm a better person.
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### Author:  [@SassyRocks](https://talkingsober.com/u/SassyRocks)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/4 "2022-04-08T17:01:33Z")
An opinion piece…has helpful resources and information…
Women, Do We Need an Intervention? [https://nyti.ms/37aetFQ](https://nyti.ms/37aetFQ)
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### Author:  [@LeeHawk](https://talkingsober.com/u/LeeHawk)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/5 "2022-04-09T10:00:30Z")
I read this as well. I’m so glad we are starting to see more articles like this. People and women need a wake up call.
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### Author:  [@Mno](https://talkingsober.com/u/Mno)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2022, 5:09am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/6 "2022-04-10T05:09:03Z")
_“The old adage that people who don’t drink are incapable of fun has been proven false, at least in my experience. All it took was practice.”_
> **[Can you make friends without alcohol? It took me a year to say yes](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/apr/10/can-you-make-friends-without-alcohol-it-took-me-a-year-to-say-yes)**
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> I had not factored in my social life when I decided to stop drinking – and it required unpacking my approach to friendship
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### Author:  [@Mno](https://talkingsober.com/u/Mno)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/8 "2022-11-15T16:51:21Z")
We get some laughing gas addicts in the detox where I work. Invariably young folks with serious nerve and/or heart damage. And they have no idea.
> **[Dutch to ban laughing gas over fears for health and road safety](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/15/dutch-to-ban-laughing-gas-over-fears-for-health-and-road-safety)**
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> Nitrous oxide linked to more than 60 fatal crashes in the country in less than three years
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### Author:  [@SassyRocks](https://talkingsober.com/u/SassyRocks)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/9 "2022-11-15T23:46:31Z")
I can believe it. We had a long spell of using crackers and cartridges. Bought them by the case. You can practically feel your brain cells dying as well.
We used to get nitrous at the dentist when I was a little kid. I loved going.
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### Author:  [@LeeHawk](https://talkingsober.com/u/LeeHawk)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2023, 10:18am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/13 "2023-01-07T10:18:29Z")
Thanks for posting this. The Guardian is a publication I have a lot of respect for. I’m so glad the word keeps getting pushed out. The industry is being exposed, and their is a shift towards living sober in the younger generations.
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### Author:  [@Mno](https://talkingsober.com/u/Mno)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/14 "2023-01-07T18:37:58Z")
Damned tough stuff to read. Fuck Fentanyl. It keeps getting worse. 😢
> **[Tranq Dope: Animal Sedative Mixed With Fentanyl Brings Fresh Horror to U.S....](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/health/fentanyl-xylazine-drug.html?unlocked_article_code=BwR8fRbZm0YJZ238HYJKqjYd0UQNyMzTPCNVBPynXHT18f5m03swF1tqBlpcqyUlDodzHbjdYk64ie4yfxtasgDxfQ0m9b-n872Jm9ZLMGf04IEkqWnBPcGrr-n0qKQRscbx1rvHydi_f-VbD2USBE2yKV-ex6k7M2G063vN8MO0oTKyGvJp4iUptl-tyPKQN5rwqlIesX2vttXdVERrkWnvoqpS8YSDHaeEZhON2BPWj2O6XVqcI1EUbpOBVwvh6ejJYjf4REBI1Aw4WzUCkp0Q2TD73e4HOy8kbmK3eIzWuy1cIpleeE7nxB3uRC7f92BNg91Fao0wVp8zANT4&smid=share-url)**
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> A veterinary tranquilizer called xylazine is infiltrating street drugs, deepening addiction, baffling law enforcement and causing wounds so severe that some result in amputation.
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### Author:  [@SassyRocks](https://talkingsober.com/u/SassyRocks)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/15 "2023-01-07T20:35:40Z")
I read this today as well. Insanity. And so incredibly sad.
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### Author:  [@Mno](https://talkingsober.com/u/Mno)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/16 "2023-01-14T12:08:13Z")
Just a short one. I’m not that big a fan of the whole celebrities in recovery genre but sometimes celebrities are nice and interesting people too. Like Paul Merson.
> **[Paul Merson: ‘I was at the Brit Awards and asked Kylie Minogue out. She said no’](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/14/paul-merson-i-was-at-the-brit-awards-and-asked-kylie-minogue-out-she-said-no)**
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> The football pundit on his very expensive suit, fighting addiction and why he owes Walsall fans an apology
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### Author:  [@SassyRocks](https://talkingsober.com/u/SassyRocks)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/18 "2023-04-12T13:25:25Z")
An interesting opinion piece on treatment in the US.
> **[Opinion | How Do You Get People Into Addiction Treatment if They Don’t Want It?](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion/addiction-treatment.html?unlocked_article_code=3M55-6IlgS0wkFgCmS3TC06b_wr7RdGPu8HpKW6BDxwZpEc9etMOFw51CIimWCQWeBqCsGPxhlbTzYKe0XTCa2HIVqCivS6mOrjjkg9VE6a6l2demdq31gHpRVG5kd20OqC98FkPvdKoKkiHvRfiBAuUb6zx-HCx5xukh5-1NxHku7c3v9AP1vxq0lopPkhjDZgPDL-UgM3rnDVLaQYFfKR84eTnA94wVyrhRwwcMGH5CkjHspWXPJVZosmOUXDD_RmxsGfi0QNz4wnOZPypPNulcdEmJzXZ8w_fuuc47J7aj9bIgmw_EWAhwGnWCIBAu3LGpNPkLjy81DXI6w)**
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> A father calls for more options.
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### Author:  [@Mno](https://talkingsober.com/u/Mno)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/19 "2023-04-12T16:37:43Z")
Lots of sides to it. One that only gets a side mention in the article is that the war on drugs caused much of this crisis. And ending it would help greatly. In more ways than I can mention.
I do believe that intrinsic motivation is key in successful treatment but the writer is right that many people getting treated already are coerced in one way or another. I see that here in my job too, people threatened to lose their housing if they don’t accept treatment is a very common one for example.
Much more to say but let me breath a bit first. Otherwise I might go on a rant against the the way the USA treats its vulnerable citizens but that’d be political I guess so I’ll keep my mouth shut.
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### Author:  [@SassyRocks](https://talkingsober.com/u/SassyRocks)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/20 "2023-04-12T19:09:50Z")
It is such a different way than what I have seen in other countries. So arbitrary and punitive and blame filled. And the ‘war on drugs…’. I will stop there as well.
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### Author:  [@SassyRocks](https://talkingsober.com/u/SassyRocks)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/22 "2023-04-17T14:25:45Z")
Another world unto themselves.
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### Author:  [@LeeHawk](https://talkingsober.com/u/LeeHawk)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/23 "2023-04-18T13:26:14Z")
This was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing!
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### Author:  [@Mno](https://talkingsober.com/u/Mno)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/24 "2023-04-18T13:51:49Z")
Sad on so many levels. Still an interesting read. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Lisa07](https://talkingsober.com/u/Lisa07)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/27 "2023-05-17T01:13:57Z")
This story is getting too common across the US. Fentanyl is in everything. It disgusts me. It’s one thing if people knowingly take it but it’s a whole other level when they have no idea. For those without addiction issues, days of going out and partying for a weekend are long gone.
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### Author:  [@Catmama23](https://talkingsober.com/u/Catmama23)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/articles-about-addiction-worth-reading/140891/29 "2023-05-17T01:29:03Z")
I live in Louisville, KY! Needless to say there were a lot of sober birthdays a week or so ago… 😂
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