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3/3/2010

The danger zone: 1.6 million addicted kids shaping outside-the-box treatment strategies

With her bright pink nail polish, pancake makeup and darting, penciled eyes, Sarah looks older than 16. But being too old has never been her problem — not since the age of 11, when she sought help from a California drug treatment program for adolescents and was turned away for being too young.


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2/17/2010

Top 10 Addiction Myths — and Myth Busters

Myth 1: Drug addiction is voluntary behavior. You start out occasionally using alcohol or other drugs, and that is a voluntary decision. But as times passes, something happens, and you become a compulsive drug user. Why? Because over time, continued use of addictive drugs changes your brain — in dramatic, toxic ways at times, more subtly at others, but virtually always in ways that result in compulsive and even uncontrollable drug use. 

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2/3/2010

Letters from Readers

A number of readers have 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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1/21/2010

The Spirituality of Despair

At its core, Alcoholics Anonymous, the fellowship that launched the modern-day recovery movement, has always been based on the lifesaving communication between one alcoholic and another. In late 1930s America, the era into which Alcoholics Anonymous was born, the idea of one alcoholic talking therapeutically with another, resulting in the betterment of both, was big news, changing the plane of alcoholism treatment forever.

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1/6/2010

Reflections On Forgiveness

Far away in the city neighborhood an English sparrow is singing. Almost lost in the street noise, the automobiles, the hum of machinery, its brave little song comes in through an open window. A tentative che-eep, che-eep comes straight into prayer and meditation and suddenly it is all right. The difficult places, the sorrow and confusion, the visionless spaces that make up the mind and heart are suddenly illuminated and put to rest. 

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12/10/2009

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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11/25/2009

Abraham Lincoln On Alcoholism


Profound insight from President Abraham Lincoln into the dilemma of the habitual drunkard. Excerpted from Lincoln's address to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, on the 110th anniversary of George Washington's birth, February 22, 1842. 

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11/11/2009

Anatomy of Pain and Addiction

In the spring of 2000, I awoke one morning with all-over muscle aches and fatigue. It persisted for over two weeks, and I became frustrated having to deal with the pain, which was, at times, debilitating. I saw my primary care physician, and he ultimately diagnosed me with a condition called Fibromyalgia. It's a disease of the central nervous system that manifests itself in all-over body pain and chronic fatigue. The only treatment available for this condition is powerful narcotics, so he referred me to a pain management specialist.
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10/29/2009

Angel of Hope: The Life and Legacy of Sister Ignatia

For those with a casual interest in AA history, the roots of Alcoholics Anonymous can easily be traced to two middle-aged men, a New York stockbroker named Bill Wilson and an Akron, Ohio, physician named Dr. Bob Smith. However, as is often the case with any successful enterprise, there were a host of hidden partners behind the scenes who made incalculable contributions to the expansion and growth of the now nearly 75-year-old fellowship that has saved the lives of countless alcoholics around the world.

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10/14/2009

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.  

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