 10/15/2008
Letters from ReadersA number of readers have recently been in touch with Sober
24, telling their stories and sharing their experience, strength, and hope with
us. If you’d like to be in touch, too, you can “Tell Us Your Story” at www.sober24.com/E_Zine/Submissions/159/.
We’d love to hear from you.
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10/1/2008
‘This Thing Called Recovery’By Zoie
It all started when I was about 9 years old. My father was a smoker and
I wanted to see what it was like to smoke. So my brother and I stole
some cigarettes from his office. We smoked the whole pack, and man, was
I sick. But it didn’t stop me. I smoked from then until now.
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9/18/2008
SPOTLIGHT ON…VoicesAngela Lee’s sobriety date – Dec. 20,
2000 – is embedded in her memory, like a birthday or a wedding
anniversary. It’s the day her body shut down from chronic alcohol
poisoning, the diagnosis on her charts at the South Miami Hospital
Addiction Treatment Program, where she spent the next 65 days.
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9/3/2008
National Recovery MonthSeptember 2008 is the 19th National Alcohol and
Drug Addiction Recovery Month. Sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an arm of the Department of Health and
Human Services, Recovery Month highlights the benefits of substance abuse
treatment, celebrates the contributions of treatment providers, and promotes
the message that treatment works and recovery is possible.
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8/14/2008
Challenge one: Deciding to fight addiction. Challenge two: Paying for itEvery month, the staff at Caron Treatment Facilities in Wernersville,
Pa., field calls from nearly 2,500 people looking for help to pay for
treatment to kick their addictions.
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8/6/2008
The New Activism“In
the end, when we don’t stand up and speak out, we hide behind our recoveries,
we sustain the most harmful myth about the disease – that it is hopeless.” –William Cope Moyers, author of “Broken: My Story
of Addiction and Redemption.”
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7/23/2008
Unhappy HourFriday, March 17th, 2000. D-day and the sun was shining in Margate. My bedside clock said 5:15 a.m. and I was fully awake. The night had passed like so many others in the last few months. Hours
had gone by with me tossing and turning, waiting for dawn. I must've
fallen into a deep sleep at some stage though, and was awoken with the
sounds of the neighborhood coming to life.
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7/12/2008
Letters from ReadersA number of readers have recently been in touch with Sober
24, telling their stories and sharing their experience, strength, and hope with
us. If you’d like to be in touch, too, you can “Tell Us Your Story” at www.sober24.com/E_Zine/Submissions/159/.
We’d love to hear from you.
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6/27/2008
Strange Tales from the History of Addiction Treatment Efforts by professionals to “treat” alcoholism and other
addictions have a long and colorful history. Alcoholics have been forced to
drink their own urine and forced to drink wine in which an eel had been
suffocated.
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6/12/2008
Toasting Sobriety in AkronA Polish recovery
homecoming happened Friday night in Akron. On the first night of
Founders Day weekend, several kinds of Polish sausages sizzled on five grills
in the driveway of Irena H.'s home in northwest Akron, as dozens of friends of
Dr. Bob and Bill W. gathered together to celebrate their sobriety and their
Polish heritage.
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