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6/24/2009

Saved By a Cat

When I got to high school, I was self-conscious, had braces, didn’t make friends easily...then on my 16th B-Day I discovered what all the fuss about the drink was. Had my first drink(s), became brave, outgoing, "fun" -- and drunk. Liked it so much that I became a regular at the military base bars nearby, drinking and dancing until closing.
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6/10/2009

The Eight Secrets of AA’s Survival

Why did AA survive and thrive when most of the pre-AA recovery societies failed to outlive their founding generation? 

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5/27/2009

What it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now

By Belinda S.

Well, where to start? I know that I was an alcoholic long before I took my first drink. As long as I can remember I have had this feeling of being different. I felt that I was not as good as other people. I grew up thinking that I was a bad little girl.

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5/14/2009

Race and Recovery: The Big Leagues

By Jerry Brooks, Powder Springs, GA

Wandering the streets at 2 a.m., I saw the blue lights. I ducked and held my breath, but the patrol car eased beside me. The officer got out of his car, walked over, and pointed the flashlight in my face. 


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4/29/2009

‘People, Places, and Things’

By William Celis

“A haze,” is how Pierre describes his first few days of treatment for his addictions to Valium and alcohol.


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4/16/2009

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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4/1/2009

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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3/18/2009

Forty-Four Years In Al-Anon

I 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 Influence

Principal 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 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 here. We’d love to hear from you. 

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