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

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

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.

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

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

This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.