This Week In Addiction News: Personal Accounts

This week the news is full of firsthand accounts of addiction from celebrities of all sorts. Matthew Perry, now working with addiction recovery programs and hosting a halfway house for recovering addicts, calls himself an “award-winning alcoholic”.

Lil Scrappy also discuss his addiction to marijuana, among other life events.

And, in a new spin on the old idea of a support group for recovering addicts, Sandeep Ranjan will be liveblogging and tweeting his attempt to quit smoking, turning social media itself into a forum to discuss and support quitting.

And, lastly, a mother with addiction issues in her past confronts the issue in her children.