Author: Leslie Glass

Leslie Glass became a recovery advocate and co-founder of Reach Out Recovery in 2011, encouraged by her daughter Lindsey who had struggled with substances as a teen and young adult. Learning how to manage the family disease of addiction with no roadmap to follow inspired the mother and daughter to create Reach Out Recovery's website to help others experiencing the same life-threatening problems. Together they produced the the 2016 ASAM Media Award winning documentary, The Secret World of Recovery, and the teen prevention documentary, The Silent Majority, distributed by American Public Television. In her career, Leslie has worked in advertising, publishing, and magazines as a writer of both fiction and non fiction. She is the author of 9 bestselling crime novels, featuring NYPD Dt.Sgt. April Woo. Leslie has has served as a Public Member of the Middle States Commission of Higher Education and as a Trustee of the New York City Police Foundation. For from 1990 to 2017, Leslie was the Trustee of the Leslie Glass Foundation. Leslie is a proud member of Rotary International.

12 Step Programs Do They Really Work

If 12 step programs work, why is addiction still growing? That’s a great question many people keep asking. Addiction is growing by leaps and bounds, and there are a lot of reasons for this. America loves alcohol, tobacco, legal and illegal drugs, and marijuana. All of them are addictive and alter brain function telling people […]

Reach Out Recovery Goes Pro

Our books help your children Nine years ago Reach Out Recovery (ROR) launched an innovative magazine-style website that started small. We were thrilled with every milestone as our audience steadily grew. With hard work and determination, we began attracting a diverse recovery audience, young and old. ROR writers made difficult recovery topics easy to connect […]

Quotes About Friendship: Don’t Settle For Bad Friends

If he picks and chooses when to answer your texts, when to hang out with you, when to acknowledge your existence, then you’re clearly not his first priority. He’s only interested in speaking to you on his terms, when he feels like it, when he decides it’s convenient for him — and that’s not the way a […]

Skipping Meals Makes You Crazy

Want to know what happens to your brain when you start skipping meals to lose weight? Brain fog, irritability, and finally downright rage. Why does this happen? You’re not losing weight, you’re starving your brain. For people in recovery, who need lots of healthy food to heal their brains, starving it is a very bad […]

Money Worries? Help Is On The Way

Do you have money worries no matter how much you earn, or how good your life seems? Do you keep wondering why you just can’t get out of debt? Do your money worries drive you to drink or to take substances to ease the pain? Does despair over debt cause you or someone you love […]

Beware The Rubber Band of Recovery Language

Recovery language can feel manipulative. But don’t be surprised when people in recovery use their newly acquired recovery language to continue to control others. Behavior doesn’t improve overnight. The truth is where there is alcohol and substance use, destructive conditioning has actually changed everything about us. Our personalities are completely altered, and don’t return to […]