We are all mourning the tragic loss of Whitney Houston. While there are no definitive answers regarding the cause of death, her battle with addiction was played out in the media for many years.
Interventionist Brad Lamm has written an informative article about Whitney Houston and addiction in the Huffington Post entitled “The Rules Are Different.” In the article, Lamm discusses how the addicts’ rules are different.
As he describes, “I’m like Whitney. I drank, coked, and smoked, and swallowed Xanax to cope, then there was calm. tried to live in the middle where moderate drinking and pills wouldn’t get the best of me – while keeping coke and crystal meth on the shelf. It didn’t work.”
To read the rest of the article, visit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-lamm/post_2956_b_1273489.html
