10 ways to LOVE

Sometimes I wonder what I would do without the unending and sometimes, undeserving support from my wife.  After getting sober 4 years ago, I have relapsed 1 time… 6 months ago.  It was a 1 month bender without too much drama.

ironically, while the biggest complaint about AA and NA among skeptical middle-class white addicts is the dependence on a Higher Power, in urban black communities 12-step recovery groups are marginalized because they aren't explicitly allied with any church.

Kicked back with his boots on the table at the head of the smoke-dense room, the meeting's leader banged his fist and bellowed, "By the grace of this program and the blood of Jesus Christ, I'm sober today!" I blinked. This was not an auspicious beginning for the project of gettin …

Keith Michaelson and Michael Zadoyko met at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting nearly 20 years ago. They were fast friends.

Tortured Kids Surviving Straight Inc.

Straight Inc. Tortured Kids No parents allowed. No professionals. Psychological and Physical Torture. Brainwashing. Encouraged Kid on Kid Abuse. In America. And I survived it.

Addiction (generic, all-inclusive) is considered to be a three-fold condition which attacks its sufferers physically, mentally and spiritually. One cannot treat only one or two of these facets and claim tangible success.

Recovering alcoholic Glenn Beck has somehow managed to get us all hooked on the emotional, often religion-heavy 12 steps of an "Alcoholics Anonymous playbook," writes Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post.

Moderate drinking, which is defined as one to three drinks per day, is associated with the lowest mortality rates in alcohol studies.

In one of her final Facebook messages, Vanessa Page Downing channeled ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes to sum up her new attitude toward life: "With a big enuf bar and the right fulcrum I can lift this whole ... WORLDDDDDDDD."

Mr. Peregrin has been sober for eight years; this will be his third year summering on the island. He pays $2,700 for his 10-week share in a house that is stocked with Diet Coke, Fresca and Smart Water.

In August 1979, I took my last drink. It was about four o'clock on a Saturday afternoon, the hot sun streaming through the windows of my little carriage house on Dickens.

On June 10, 1935, Bill Wilson and his friend Dr. Robert Smith set out to find the best way to reform alcoholics, and Alcoholics Anonymous was born.

Alcoholics Anonymous is the most widely used treatment for alcoholism. It is mandated by the courts, accepted by mainstream medicine, and required by insurance companies.

Excerpt: A robber who walked into the Columbia downtown Alcoholics Anonymous center, pulled out a gun and demanded money was killed in a burst of gunfire from an AA visitor's gun, police said.

In last month's Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, University of New Mexico addiction specialist William Miller and his colleagues presented findings from two controlled trials in which patients underwent drug treatment.

"Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man," wrote A.E. Houseman.

Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."

How to Help an Alcoholic Stop Drinking

After several messages of friends online asking "How do I help an alcoholic friend stop drinking?" I knew, then, I needed to do something. Therefore, I am going to offer some suggestions.

Fortunately, the weekend turmoil resulted not from my own kids' drinking but from the ignorance and denial exhibited by other parents. But before I climb up on my soapbox, let's take a look at some frightening statistics....

Recognition and intervention information pertaining to alcoholism from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

How to Avoid Alcoholism When It Runs in the Family. Recent studies have linked alcoholism with genetics, proving that children of alcoholics run a greater ...

There are addicts of all sorts all over. Now with the neoclassical definition that many are proposing it would seem that every single individual is an addict of some kind and it is only the level of addiction that varies.......

Alcoholics Anonymous, the renowned 12-step program that directs problem drinkers to seek help from a higher power, says it's not a religion and is open to nonbelievers.

An Alcoholics Anonymous group known as Midtown has been barred from meeting at another church, News4 reported Monday. Leaders of St. Mark's Presbyterian Church on Old Georgetown Road in Rockville said the group could no longer meet there, News4's Pat Collins said.

By the time May Clancy turned 15 years old, she was well on her way to drinking herself to death. A middle-school student from Potomac, Md., she had been through 11 different psychiatric and alcohol-rehab programs in two years.