How to Start National Recovery Month (An Addiction Survey)

It’s National Recovery Month, a month dedicated to educating and bringing awareness to issues of drug and alcohol dependency. Awareness, recovery, dependency–aren’t these words so overused that they’ve lost their punch? Did you let the bold-faced predicating sentence slide through your auditory canal, rattle against the porcelin walls of your cranium for a nanosecond, and slide out the other auditory canal? Have you already clicked away?

“Recovery-shmovery; yada, yada; I don’t have a drinking...