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Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
An Alaska woman who let her 7-year-old son drive while she was passed out drunk in the passenger seat has been sentenced to 20 days in jail. District Court Judge Raymond Funk also sentenced 37-year-old Karen Koch to three years of be on probation and six months of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
A California man has been sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for shooting to death his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor at a meeting.
The Coast Guard didn't know for nine months about a DUI conviction against the pilot of the freighter that caused a giant oil spill in the San Francisco Bay last fall.
Kirsten Storms was ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after pleading no contest Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving.
A man who confessed to raping a woman as he apologized two decades later as part of the Alcoholics Anonymous program is scheduled to be released from jail after serving six months of an 18-month sentence, officials said Wednesday.
More than two decades after he sexually assaulted a fellow student at a fraternity party, a man who later apologized to his victim as part of the 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program faces sentencing for the crime.
Lindsay Lohan says she's been going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for a year, but hasn't talked about it because "it's no one's business." "I just left an AA meeting," the 20-year-old actress tells People magazine in a story posted Tuesday on its Web site.
Lindsay Lohan has been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, her publicist said Friday. "She started attending some, and I think it's a positive thing," Leslie Sloane told The Associated Press. "My biggest fear is who's the big idiot to out which (chapter) she goes to."
A man who sexually assaulted a fellow student at a fraternity party in 1984, then apologized to her two decades later as part of the 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program, pleaded guilty Tuesday and could go to prison.
My Name is Roger, and I'm an alcoholic - Roger Ebert on AAIn 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.
Good News Wednesday: On This Day: Bill Wilson Founds Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935On 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.
AA is Faith-Based, Not Evidence-BasedAlcoholics Anonymous is the most widely used treatment for alcoholism. It is mandated by the courts, accepted by mainstream medicine, and required by insurance companies.
Robbery suspect killed at AA meeting placeExcerpt: 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.
Battling Addiction: Are 12 Steps Too Many? Study hints that Spiritual step may not be helpful.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.
Barack Obama's America and the 12-Step ProgramIf George Bush's America was the corrupt and narcissistic money, power, oil, violence, and greed-addicted junkie always looking for a fix, Barack Obama's America is an addict in recovery, searching for peace and wishing to do whatever she can to better her ways and live a clean a …
Drinking as a Low-Level Search for God"Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man," wrote A.E. Houseman.
Serenity Prayer Stirs Up Doubt - Who Wrote It?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."
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.
Stop Drinking Alcohol Now - The Perils of Teenage DrinkingFortunately, 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....
Alcohol-Related Problems: Recognition and Intervention - January ...Recognition and intervention information pertaining to alcoholism from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
How to Avoid Alcoholism When It Runs in the Family | eHow.comHow to Avoid Alcoholism When It Runs in the Family. Recent studies have linked alcoholism with genetics, proving that children of alcoholics run a greater ...
Stop Drinking Alcohol Now - Impact on the Alcoholic and the FamilyThere 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.......
Parolees can't be forced into Alcoholics Anonymous, court rulesAlcoholics 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.
Church calls Alcoholics Anonymous a "cult" and bans it from its premises for sexual misconductAn 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.
Critics Say Washington AA Chapter Is CultlikeBy 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.
AA = Alcoholics Anonymous and........ Al Anon = Alcoholics Anonymous BUT AA and Al Anon are different organizations with different purposes? How can they be called the same thing, but be different? They can't get away with that! We're not all SAPS you know!?!
A 12-step apology leads to a guilty plea in rape caseA man who sexually assaulted a fellow University of Virginia student in 1984 and then apologized to her two decades later as part of the 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program pleaded guilty to the crime Tuesday. ... Under AA's ninth step, alcoholics are advised to make amends to …
The dark side of schoolies BINGE drinking may be part of the Australian teenager's rite of passage, but for some youngsters it may be the start of a lifelong battle with alcohol.
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