Addiction: A Disease Not a Disgrace

I just saw the film Lipstick and Liquor: A Documentary to Inspire a New Dialogue directed by Lori Butterfield. In this film the lives of five women are profiled. Four women describe their active alcohol (and some drug) abuse in contrast with their current lives in recovery. Thirty-nine-year-old Julie Kroll, the fifth woman, had been … Read More
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“Do you prefer that you be right or happy?”

“The last person David Bowie followed on Twitter was God” by FACT, January 12, 2016 (www.factmag.com) I love David Bowie and had no idea that he had been ill with cancer until the news of his death. It was another disease—the disease of addiction—that brought me to my knees and made a crack in the … Read More
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