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The Storytellers

by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 30, 2026 | Recovery | 0 |

One young man explained that he avoided speaker meetings because the “drunkalogues” he heard triggered in him an awful craving for a drink.

“Struck Sober”

by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 6, 2025 | People in Recovery | 0 |
Motivational Speaker

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 18, 2025 | Recovery | 0 |
A Novel Approach

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 4, 2025 | Bookshelf | 0 |
Seven Trips to Rehab pt 2

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 17, 2024 | Treatment | 0 |
1st Person – A Writer’s Story

by C. Scott McMillin | May 23, 2024 | Recovery | 0 |

1st Person — A Greener Day

by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 1, 2024 | Recovery | 0 |

The fact is, about a third of US adults don’t drink at all, or they drink so occasionally as to qualify as nondrinkers. I’ve noticed how difficult it can be for some patients in addiction treatment to believe that.

Another Actor Talks Recovery

by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 19, 2023 | Recovery | 0 |

Maybe they just saw it as none of their damn business, so long as he showed up on time and didn’t embarrass them. It’s the sort of accommodation people make all the time in response to someone else’s excessive drinking in a social or work situation.

First Person: A “Friends” Story

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 27, 2022 | Recovery | 0 |

Not an unusual path for the disease to take. That year of deliberate abstention indicates that Perry was aware that his problems were growing worse.

A World of Recovery Podcasting

by C. Scott McMillin | May 6, 2021 | Addiction | 0 |

He came to see it in terms of needing to give up one thing– alcohol– so he could have everything else.

First Person – Music Blues

by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 22, 2021 | Addiction | 0 |

No blame is attached to the culture that has nurtured and protected it. So that culture doesn’t change.

First Person: Crash and Burn

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 1, 2020 | Families, Recovery | 0 |

I remember one expert’s claim that it wasn’t unusual for someone to require seven treatment episodes to establish a stable recovery.

The Habit of Hiding

by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 22, 2019 | Addiction | 1 |

She had to relearn truthfulness, a day at a time, much the way the victim of a serious stroke might have to relearn speech.

Another Story of Recovery

by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 8, 2019 | Recovery | 0 |

Nonetheless, years of drinking and drugging and lapsing and relapsing will invariably have an effect on the victim of addiction.

Simon Pegg’s Story

by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 13, 2018 | People in Recovery | 0 |

As control erodes, the drinker redoubles efforts to regain it. Some resort to “white-knuckle” abstinence, giving up alcohol for a while, just to prove to themselves or someone else that they can.