One of the Blogs I truly appreciate receiving is from my friend, mentor and counsellor Paddy Ducklow. His latest from "Comments on the Couch" is all about addiction, which he calls "Fiddling with the State of Being." Here is the first paragraph. For the rest of the article please click on the attached link.
 
"I grew up in a home where alcohol ingestion was done compulsively. I discovered as a child that the drinking compulsion is an equal opportunity phenomenon – both my Mom and Dad were serious imbibers. I also learned that my parents and their friends formed an alcohol-conscious community where successful parties were granted the status of “great” by the quantity imbibed and the consequent sexualization of intimacies."
 
For more read theducklows.ca/blog