 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
S.
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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12/27/2007
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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12/13/2007
Heroin Addicts of KabulThorne Anderson is a
freelance photo journalist who has recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan
where, amongst other things, he documented the hidden murky world inhabited by
the ever increasing number of drug addicts in the country.
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11/28/2007
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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11/15/2007
Friends for LifeThey say all you really need in life is one good friend. I’m
lucky that way. I have Rachel. Rachel’s a recovering alcoholic. I’m a
recovering codependent. She makes me laugh. And cry. And think. All of which I
needed recently.
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11/1/2007
SPOTLIGHT ON...
From girl to woman: ‘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. But
until last year, when it came to drugs and alcohol, Holly was an omnivore. She
did everything that came her way; as a result of her drug use, she has
hepatitis C.
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10/18/2007
SPOTLIGHT ON...Books and films about getting — and staying — sober
by Thom Forbes
When I wanted to get sober more than 20 years ago, I found
inspiration in “The Courage
to Change” (Houghton Mifflin), a collection of conversations author
Dennis Wholey conducted about alcoholism with a few dozen famous reformed
drunks, including singer Grace Slick, writer Elmore Leonard, and a few guys I
admired who threw baseballs 90 miles an hour.
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