Addiction may be something to which some of us are predisposed, like diabetes, rather than a voluntary behavior - but it's also reversible. A 'disease model' of alcoholism and other addictions in no way diminishes our personal accountability once we know the facts. It simply suggests how hard recovery will be, and how much help we need.

Crossing color, class, gender, and generational lines, the communities of addiction and recovery are as democratic as America gets. Twelve-step meetings are in…

Rimbaud gave up poetry when it failed to change the world. Orwell at the end must have had his doubts about language, too, or he wouldn't have dreamed up Newsp…

Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outsid…

Do you know people, I've made many... errr... statements about being sober and, what I can really say is... sobriety fucking sucks!

She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.