David Foster Wallace delivered a commencement speech in 2005 that has since been reprinted as This is Water. In the early stages of recovery, it\u2019s common to question the meaning of life, higher powers and god. Dr. Gabor Mat\u00e9 talks about addiction as a case of human development gone awry. He compares his patients\u2019 struggle with substance addictions to the behavioral addictions that many other members of society have, noting that they\u2019re not all that different. Whether you want to better understand the mindset of addiction or find inspiration in how they got out of it, these memoirs are nothing short of inspiring. That bottle of merlot was all Kerry Cohen could think about as she got through her day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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