Johnny Cash: Life, Love, and the Magic of Being Your Badass Self

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Chantele Theroux on how to live and love like the Man in Black.

How to Quit a Bad Habit

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Five ways to change your life for good.

Brazil State Unveils New Crack Rehabilitation Initiative

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A recent study from the Federal University of Sao Paulo shows that “Brazil is now the world’s largest consumer of both cocaine and its crack derivative.”

Mentored Boys or Monster Boys

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“In the absence of elders, the impetuosity of youth becomes the slow death of the community.” Jed Diamond takes his grandson on a rite of passage.

How Fathers Can Teach Their Sons about Addiction

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How you can help protect your kids from drug addiction, by telling them why you used.

A Child of Alcoholics Finds Serenity

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Aaron Brinker changes a family tradition of silence around alcohol abuse, by telling the story of how he also became an alcoholic.

Marijuana: 4/20

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What does marijuana mean to you?

Tiger Woods, Redemption?

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Michael Taylor believes that in order for Tiger Woods to achieve redemption, he must first see himself as an ordinary man.

When a Man’s Responsibility Has Gone, What Is There Left for Him?

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Men keep going out of a sense of duty. What happens when that’s no longer enough?

“People tend to have more success replacing harmful drugs with less harmful drugs than avoiding them all together cold turkey.”

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If you’ve ever been addicted to something, were you able to break the addiction completely? Or did you end up just changing the object of your addiction?

Energy Drinks and Addiction [Infographic]

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Can energy drinks cap the potential of one’s recovery and happiness in life?

Russell Brand, On Why Life is Better Without Drugs

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Alyssa Royse applauds the honesty and bravery of Russell Brand.

On Guns, Mental Illness and Addictions (Bulling Through)

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Tim Lineaweaver gives an unflinching look at guns, PTSD, and addictions and one man’s struggles with the same.

Dear John: Deathbed Confession Is Good For Whom, Exactly?

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A deathbed confession of a stolen ring, gun-proofing a son’s sleepovers, and a badmouthing ex-wife.

5 Ways to Improve Men’s Addiction Treatment

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Dan Griffin believes that addiction treatments will be more effective when we treat men as men.

That Three-Martini Lunch Wasn’t Just for “Mad Men”

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One Man’s Adventures into the “Office Lunch”