 5/8/2008
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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4/24/2008
BlackoutsMany times at AA meetings I had heard the words that described my
disease: cunning, powerful and baffling. I knew how strong and tempting
alcohol could be, but I'd also learned that all I had to do, one day at
a time, was not drink and go to meetings.
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4/17/2008
‘The God Thing’
“No, it won’t kill you.”
I was sitting in the office of a surgeon I’d only met 30
minutes ago, listening to him recommend – what else – SURGERY. “It won’t kill
you,” he continued, “unless it twists around and cuts off the blood flow. Then
it’ll kill ya.”
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4/2/2008
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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3/20/2008
ACOA helps children deal with alcoholic parentsI have been a child of an alcoholic all my life and that life is all I know.
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3/6/2008
Making AmendsI took a deep breath and punched the numbers into my cell phone. This wasn’t an easy call to make but I knew I had to do it. After three and a half years in AA I understood the importance of the ninth step—making amends.
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2/20/2008
Women and AddictionWhen a man and a woman drink too much alcohol — by far the
most widely abused substance in the country — they not only do it for different
reasons, they also get different results.
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2/8/2008
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” here.
We’d love to hear from you.
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1/23/2008
History Corner: Tales from a Jag-House
The affluent alcoholic has always had
institutions that catered to his or her needs for periodic detoxification and
physical and emotional renewal. When inebriate homes, inebriate asylums and
addiction cure institutes collapsed in the opening decades of the 20th century,
a new social institution quietly emerged on the American landscape.
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1/9/2008
Stigmaby Ames
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The argument over addiction as a matter of chemistry or
choice continues among professionals searching for answers to one of society’s
oldest and most pressing problems. For those in the middle – those with
addictions, either active or in remission – watching the question swing back
and forth can be like watching a tennis match.
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