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Celebrated annually every September, Recovery Month aims to teach Americans that treatment programs and mental health services can help those with drug addictions and substance use disorders to live healthy and rewarding lives.

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Loving someone with an addiction is a war. It’s an impossibility to reach compromise; it’s impossible to make them love you.

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It’s knowing you don’t stand a chance next to their battle with addiction. 

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It started off small because to me a cookie is never really just a cookie, it’s the gateway to the entire box of cookies.

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When your dealing with multiple addictions, the best weapons you have are patience and perseverance, both are essential when trying to defeat them. 

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You can’t heal when you won’t cut out the infection, and that’s just what addiction is. An infection.

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He is making his own choices even it means death, but I choose life.

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How does one grieve a person who is still here? Where are the words for losing someone that’s still alive? 

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I unlocked the door and the police found you passed out in the back room

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I was recently at a dinner with two friends, when we began discussing mental illness and mental health treatment.