They tried to make me go to rehab. So I went. The end.
addiction
sex work
Empowerment comes in the front door when I can make rent in a singular evening. Yet, it leaves through the back door when I blow it all on pills.
addiction
Out of all the secrets I've told here, intimate details of my drug and alcohol problems, bedwetting, compulsive promiscuity, and various close-ups of my fats, I feel most ashamed of what I'm about to tell you.
addiction
This is only a little bit about Cat.
adderall
Everyone around me is tweaked out of their minds, but I just flushed my pills down the toilet.
jail
The worst thing about my very short time in jail? Honestly? Chapped lips.
cigarettes
I smoke because of this stupid aching dumb hole for love inside of me. I need to quit. But I don't know if I can right now.
addiction
In some ways, friend break-ups are even worse than romantic ones -- and they can carry the same emotional baggage. Still, sometimes they're a necessary evil.
addiction
A cautionary tale.
addiction
Smoking addiction is hard to explain to people who haven’t experienced it, but it’s sort of like this: Cigarettes are my passport out of awkward conversations, my built-in break from work, my digestive aid, my antidepressant, and my cure for boredom.
sobriety
I love my birthday because it combines two of my greatest pleasures in life -- dessert and attention.
coffee
You have been the one/you have been the one, for me.
alcoholism
I’m pretty sure that picture of you and your friends taking shots of birthday cake vodka doesn’t qualify for an attached “me and my home girls are the biggest alcoholics ever” status update.
drugs
I'm 48 hours into being completely benzo free.
drugs
My spouse is still in his love affair with MJ. In all honesty, at times I feel like my love triangle has become one where my husband cheats on his sweet, loving weed with me, the tumultuous mistress.
addiction
Sober, I learn, bars don't look so hot, they aren't that fun. At 9 o’clock, we arrive together talking in the same tongue, and by 9:45, we’re in different orbits.
lindsay lohan
I think you can do it.
An Open Letter To Lindsay Lohan Because I Have Hope For You And I Want You To Have Hope For You, Too
addiction
Only 15 percent of women report feeling "happy" on diets. There's a shocker.
addiction
At least not if you're drunk.
addiction
Sometimes I go a day with just a can or a little coffee, a buck or two, but at least once my beverage tally reached $16, about 10.6 % of my weekly take home right now
addiction
A few years ago I pictured our kids being friends forever, that she would always be my shoulder to lean on at family functions, that we would someday celebrate the birth of each other’s grandchildren. Now I don’t know if I will ever see her again.
addiction
Early one morning, after taking an Ambien at some point the night before, I wandered out of my apartment in Brooklyn, clad only in a towel, with no shoes, keys, phone or money.
