Many addicts and alcoholics take time to become comfortable with sex. Those who are married or have partners may find themselves making love without any mood-altering drink or drugs virtually for the first time. Shyness and embarrassment are common. Often they are frightened of sex, particularly if demeaning sex was part of their drug-using or [...]

It is a statistical fact that very few addicts or alcoholics manage to give up drugs or alcohol without some kind of support system. Drugs or drink have been so important in their lives that when they stop using them there is a great gap in their way of life. Something has to take its [...]