Archives for July 2018

Adding NAminnesota.org to Your Safe Senders List

To ensure that you will always receive our emails, we recommend that you add our email address to your address book/safe list. This way, our emails will never end up in your spam folder. Here are the steps for each of the most popular email service providers. If yours isn’t shown, the steps are probably […]

‘I Am Going to Die if I Keep Living the Way I Am.’ She Was Right.

ROANOKE, Va. — Last year, on the day after Christmas, I picked up my phone to hear the mother on the other end of the line sobbing. “It’s the phone call I never wanted to make to you,” she said. “I’m so sorry to have to make this call.” For more than two years, I had […]

Who’s Sober in Narcotics Anonymous?

BY HANNAH BECKLER Abstinence-only ideology in twelve-step treatment programs is making it harder for addicts to stay clean. Dahlia took her first oxycodone at nineteen, months into her first semester as a college freshman. She was curious and a little naive with a penchant for trying her luck — and drug addictions, she thought, were for […]