Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.

I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.