variety.com
Malina Saval Associate
Los Angeles
show
social
Love
Malina Saval Associate
Los Angeles
The Lizard Brain: How I Came To Learn that Addiction is a Disease
Reading now: 923
variety.com
variety.comMalina Saval Associate Editor, FeaturesIn a bright, white auditorium on the rolling campus of a rehab center on the East Coast, I learned that addiction is a disease.
The giant room was filled with addicts and alcoholics, including my then-husband, who’d checked in for a monthlong stay to get sober after decades of drinking and drugging.
It was family week, and I’d flown in from Los Angeles, where we lived. We had a 3-year-old and a 1-year-old at the time, both of whom were born amid the chaos of a family pummeled hard by a disease in which piles of weed and whiskey highballs were as commonplace as diapers and baby food.
Read more on variety.com
The website starsalert.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.
Report this news
Related News
Celebrities
Locations