When an individual goes into treatment it’s sometimes easy to forget that it isn’t just that individual going through the delicate and difficult work at a drug rehab…, but instead all the people in their lives, which inevitably includes their family. All relationships in life can contribute or detract from wellness. Complicated and interrelated family dynamics are a huge

Have you ever felt like you wanted to give up? That your goals or dreams were unreachable and you might as well stop trying? That you should just resign yourself to the fact that your life is over, at least the good part of it? I think we’ve all been there, myself included. But, if I can give you one piece of…

It’s refreshing that some of the great strides made in the study of addiction treatment are now becoming available through mainstream media outlets. This can partly be attributed to Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse…. In a video recently posted on AOL, Dr. Volkow clears up some of the myths surrounding drug addiction, and

Today is my birthday. I am a year older (and no, I won’t tell you exactly how old that is) and hopefully a little bit wiser. Every year on my birthday, I like to reflect on the year that has passed and the things that I have learned along the way. This has become especially important to me since I’ve…

William Cope Moyers, son of Bill Moyers, former White House Press Secretary, Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated television journalist, first gained notoriety as an award winning journalist for CNN and Newsday. Now the Executive Director of Hazelden’s Center for Public Advocacy, Moyers recounts his battle with alcoholism and crack addiction in the memoir “Broken: My Story …

One of the first things that we do when a client comes to Milestones is give them a copy of “The Four Agreements…” by Don Miguel Ruiz. I have had clients tell me that this book has completely changed their lives, and I can totally relate because it did the same thing for me (not to mention millions