Jason Wahler

I didn’t wake up one day saying, “Today’s the day I will become an alcoholic.” I didn’t want to make the choices I made when I was drinking. I didn’t want to pay an outrageous amount of money for numerous stints in treatment. And most of all, I didn’t want to hurt those people around […]

One of my best friends has been an avid pot smoker for years, but he hasn’t been the stereotypical stoner. Instead, he has stayed productive and kept himself involved in activities like surfing and snowboarding. I grew up with this friend, and even though I am never around him when he smokes, I know when

Now that I am sober, I can see that even the smallest things that I do can turn out to be something wonderful for someone else. If I was never clean, some things might have never happened – possibly even a wedding reception that I just attended.   Both Mandy (who I mentioned in last

One of the greatest benefits of my job is that I get to work with some pretty amazing people. This past week, Mike Neatherton, the President and CEO of Northbound, and I rode our motorcycles out to the Betty Ford Center to see our other co-worker, Mandy, speak about synthetic drugs. I thought her presentation

Since I have struggled with addiction on a personal level, there isn’t much that shocks me in terms of how people use both drugs and alcohol. Before I got sober, I would use to excess and do so in a number of ways. However, when I heard about this most recent “game” people worldwide have