Medication-Assisted Treatment and Holiday Gatherings: You Don’t Have to Lose Yourself to Stay Sober
The holidays are complicated. For people in recovery—especially those using Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)—they can stir up a very specific fear: What if staying sober means losing the parts of me I actually liked? That’s not a selfish question. It’s not even irrational. For many people, substances didn’t just numb pain—they unlocked parts of themselves that […]