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Addiction is a brain disease that, through a series of biochemical mechanisms resulting from repeated behaviors, creates an overwhelming, animalistic urge as pressing and intense as the bursting bladder.

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We spent the whole day together, and I knew something wasn’t right. I should’ve forced you to go…somewhere. 

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I saw the same thing in my dad’s eyes and when I saw glimpses of his soul. 

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When I stopped using drugs to suppress my emotional pain, I had to start the long process of learning how to manage life without substances to help me.

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The monsters in your mind are making you think we are conspiring against you. But we are rooting for you.

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Nothing is different to the outside world; no one sees the changes happening. But you do. You feel it.

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You are incapable of sitting still without an electronic device plastered to your hand.

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Why did I start taking Adderall in the first place? Well, that part is simple: Optimization. Put another way, all I cared about was how long and how hard I could make myself work.

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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.