 3/18/2009
Forty-Four Years In Al-AnonI am eighty-two years old, in good health and happy to have spent the
last seven years married to the love of my life. The joy that I have
in my life today is a direct result of the fact that I crawled into
“the rooms of Al-Anon” forty-four years ago, in absolute rock bottom
desperation.
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3/6/2009
T.U.I – Teaching Under the InfluencePrincipal Jimenez’s dark, charcoal-colored eyes stared straight into mine. Her voice was almost a whisper, “I received a call from the administration office downtown. They gave me some disturbing news and I need the truth.”
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2/18/2009
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 here.
We’d love to hear from you.
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2/4/2009
Pushing It to the LimitI grew up very poor with alcoholic parents and 8 brothers
and sisters. There was a lot of abuse. I started drinking when I was 5, and by
time I was 8 I was an alcoholic and addict. I smoked pot and took speed and
downs every day. Nothing was better than to getting up and smoking a
joint.
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2/1/2009
Voices: ‘I couldn’t count on myself; I couldn’t count on my emotions’At 28, Holly is a cute
blond who most people would never guess was once a serious drug addict.
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1/22/2009
SPOTLIGHT ON… Letters from Readers A 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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1/7/2009
Choices Abound to Help You Stay on the Path to Recovery Back in 1944, Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson
observed that “the roads to recovery are many.” Today, that holds true more
than ever, which is good news if you’re looking to stay clean and sober.
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12/24/2008
A cautionary tale from a child prodigy of substance abuseAt 23, Tony L. is a college sophomore making up for lost
time. He's on the dean's list at Augsburg
College in Minneapolis, an amazing turn of events given
his flagrant 12-year history as a drug and alcohol abuser — drunk, crack
smoker, paint huffer.
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12/11/2008
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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11/28/2008
Realistic recovery: How to survive the first year
Once you’ve emerged from any alcohol or drug treatment
program, the real work begins: staying clean and sober. People in recovery and
those who support them all agree that the first year is the most difficult, a
bewildering time when relapse is most likely to occur.
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