Prairie Doc Perspective Week of January 21, 2024

"I've lost everything...but I just can't stop". "Once I take that first drink that is all I think about". "I use to take the pain away". These are some of the many things you might hear someone who struggles on a daily basis with an addiction say. Addiction is a chronic disease that can physically and mentally change a person from who they once were.

When we hear the word addiction, we might automatically go to 'the person on the street looking to score their next fix', but these are people who struggle every minute of their day to make the unconscious choice to feed this compulsion without th...