Trouble Is a Gift: A Story of Addiction, Recovery, and Hope

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We recognize every day that the work we do is bigger than we are, and we are grateful for our many individual and family supporters, partner agencies, healthcare partners and Greater Cleveland resources. He was known in the community as the voice of the Browns, but to Recovery Resources, he was simply our friend. The book opens with a description of his own struggles with the substance — what he can remember of them.

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Raised in an immigrant Irish family in Harlem, Cusack recalls that alcohol was a normal part of life. And throughout his childhood the cure for any illness was a hot toddy with whiskey.

Reading his early stories we get the picture of a tough kid, complete with scabs on his knuckles from fighting, who grows up into a hard-fighting, hard-drinking young man. Getting off alcohol is no easy task, physically or psychologically. As a medical student, I have helped care for a number of chronic alcoholics who have been hospitalized to wean them safely off their most recent bender while avoiding potentially deadly complications.

They spend a few days in the hospital while we monitor their vital signs and look for any evidence of the dreaded DTs delirium tremens.

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Once they are past this stage, though, they are only at the beginning of their journey to recovery. Today, there are a variety of options available to help those along their path to sobriety, from detox centers and hospital-based chemical-dependency units to long-term residential treatment programs. But back when Jim — and, after you read the book, you, too, will feel like calling him Jim and wanting to invite him out for coffee — was seeking sobriety, the options were far more limited.

• Cleveland c3 nonprofit charity | Recovery Resources;
• Sunday.
• LE WEEK-END DE TOUTES LES TENTATIONS (French Edition).
• Clarity Is Divine.
• Forced Perspective!
• Villa Veritas Foundation: Rehab in New York.

This was 60 years ago, when he was in his 20s. As he writes in his preface, Cusack is now in his 80s.

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After leaving the candy business — and his unofficial candy-shop-based rehabilitation — he spent time driving trucks, but was called back to his rehabilitation work when he took over as manager of Glen Acre Lodge, a struggling detox center. From there, his career was launched.

Cusack then expanded the scope of his work to other substances, treating those addicted to Valium even before the American Medical Association considered it addictive.