My Opioid Use Disorder Didn’t Define Me, and It Doesn’t Have to Define You
It’s happened a few times. I meet someone new and start getting to know them, eventually, we share personal things about our lives, and then BAM ....
Latest Blog Posts from Ashley Walker
Finding My Motivation to Stop Using Opioids Was the Easy Part
I never wanted to have a problem using opioids. Maybe that’s a given with most people, but really, I hated that I was addicted to the drugs ....
How the Fear of Opioid Withdrawal Keeps You in Its Grasp
Many times, people think that those who have an addiction are in it for the high. They think of someone who uses opioids as so in love with the way ...
10 Years in Recovery: How Opioids Affect Me Now
When I first got clean from opioids, I wanted nothing more to do with them. With them, anything regarding them, and addiction in general ....
Opioids: Once Given Too Freely, Now Restricted Too Much?
As someone who was once addicted to opioids, I like to think I have a pretty good understanding of how dangerous this category of drugs can be ....
Don’t Have an Addictive Personality? You Still Aren’t Safe From Opioid Addiction
If there’s one thing that frustrates me more than anything when talking about opioid addiction, it’s that the medical field throws around statements ...