 3/3/2010
The danger zone: 1.6 million addicted kids shaping outside-the-box treatment strategiesWith 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 BustersMyth 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 ReadersA 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 DespairAt 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 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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11/25/2009
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 ReadersA 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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