Eighty/Twenty addiction is a blog about my journey to beat addiction. Years of trying and failing to arrest my addiction with 12 Step groups forced me to find my own answer. I decided that the human body is a biological machine. The human brain is a biological computer. Hardware and software. I started looking into Bio-hacking. I decided to use nutrition, sleep quality, exercise, meditation and drugs to hack my faulty operating system. I realized that caffeine and nicotine are mind altering drugs that addicts consume daily so clearly the idea that an "addict" can't ever use mood or mind altering drugs was patently false. I threw away all of my assumptions and formulated my own plan to beat addiction. It worked so well that I decided to blog about it in the hopes that my experience may help others. What I did was so drastically different from the conventional wisdom stemming from the 12 Step model which has lead me to conclude that our current understanding of addiction is wrong. I am positive that I am not the first person to beat addiction outside of the 12 step mold so I also started "the eighty/twenty" Facebook group to be a place for the community of those who have beat or want to beat addiction outside of an abstinence only doctrine to find and learn from each other. All of this is free, I am not selling anything. If you like what you read please help me get this off the ground by joining the eighty/twenty group. My social media contacts are at the footer of the page. If you have your own story to tell or you would like me to cover something specific in future blog posts please use the "contact" tab at the top of the page.
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