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How Dealing with Past Trauma May Be the Key to Breaking Addiction

By Joanna Moorhead — 2018

Opening up to past trauma is difficult, but self-awareness is key to addressing issues that leave us vulnerable.

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We Are Broken Together

“Even where I live in St. Paul, known nationally for being the ‘crossroads of recovery,’” William said, “the stigma prevents people from thinking about alcoholics and other drug addicts as ‘good people with a bad illness.’”

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Kathy Ketcham
2021
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His Family Found the Way to Cope

"I knew how progressive the disease was. I knew each time I used, I fell faster and faster. I knew when I went out that day I was a dead man. I didn't go out to do drugs. I went out to die."

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Patricia Guthrie
1998
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Celebrity's Son: Big Connections And Addictions; Ordeal of Moyers Family Underlies a TV Documentary

William Moyers's ordeal helped motivate Bill Moyers's new documentary series, ''Close to Home,'' which explores the nature of addiction. ''It isn't about me,'' his son said. ''It's about thousands of people like me.

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Christopher S. Wren
1998
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Yahoo Sports: ‘Why Not Roll the Dice?’ Lamar Odom’s Risky Road Back from Addiction and Depression

It is now more than five years since Odom’s drug abuse prematurely ended his NBA career, destroyed his marriage to Khloe Kardashian and left him comatose for three days in a Las Vegas hospital.

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Jeff Eisenberg
2021
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How Painkillers Are Turning Young Athletes Into Heroin Addicts

A special report from L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez on the rising use and abuse of heroin among young athletes across the U.S. and the connection between sports, painkillers and heroin addiction.

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L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez
2015
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For N.F.L. Retirees, Opioids Bring More Pain

A brutal game got them hooked on painkillers. In retirement, they battle addiction. The opioid crisis courses through football.

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Ken Belson
2019
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Picking Addiction Help (Part 2)

Addiction is now recognized to be a chronic illness that lurks indefinitely within an addict in recovery.

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Jane E. Brody
2013
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Confessions of a Kleptomaniac

I became a drug addict only years after I'd discovered my first true love: Compulsive thieving.

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Dylan Lavene
2012
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