Anything less than the best simply isn’t good enough for you
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Oxycodone detox is an essential precursor to oxycodone treatment. Oxycodone addiction is at root a physical disease, and oxycodone recovery must begin with physical healing. Unfortunately, some drug treatment centers marginalize the detox process, or even ignore it altogether. That’s an enormous mistake. The rehab facility that’s right for you is the one that can meet each and every one of your needs. That process has to start with an effective detox program. Anything less simply isn’t good enough.
The fact that you’ve made it this far says you already know what’s at stake in the fight against oxycodone abuse. No...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 9, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Vail Girl Tags: Rehab Drug Detox Detoxification Source Type: blogs
Coffee addiction
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The pharmacology of caffeine.Recent studies have documented the existence of severe caffeine addicts who suffer significant depression and lessened cognitive capacity for several weeks or months following termination of coffee drinking. Balzac, the nineteenth century French writer, reportedly died of caffeine poisoning at roughly the 50-cup-per-day level.At low doses, caffeine sharpens cognitive processes--primarily mathematics, organization, and memory--just as nicotine does. The results of a ten-year study, reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that female nurses between the ages of 34 and 59 who drank co...
Source: Addiction Inbox - May 9, 2008 Category: Addiction Tags: drug addiction caffeinism caffeine addiction coffee addiction Source Type: blogs
Mother’s day
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I truly can’t believe it but it’s already time for Mother’s Day again. The year has gone by so quickly but it has also brought so many changes.
Last year my Happy Mother’s Day post was about my own mother and the importance of a mother’s support and understanding for her child in their recovery.
This year I wanted to talk about how much my own role of a mother has improved now that I am further into my addiction recovery.
No food, no clean clothes, no order and basically no rules. This would be a pretty good description of the way my home was when I was in active addiction. Sad but very true....
Source: What Winners Do - May 9, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Erin Tags: addiction recovery Source Type: blogs
A review on the definition of alcoholism
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There are many definitions of alcoholism. The most common definition of alcoholism is that “alcoholism is a horrible disease that affects the whole person “. However this definition may also apply to cancer or other dreadful diseases. Alcoholism cannot be defined simply as a disease caused by prolonged consumption of alcohol. The amount and frequency of drinking will determine alcoholism.
A more accurate definition of alcoholism suggests a chronic disorder characterized by some loss of control over drinking. Drinking more frequently and at inappropriate times will point towards alcoholism. Alcoholism is a commo...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - May 9, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs
How to do a fifth step
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I am grateful to whoever did the Lijit search for “How To Do A Fifth Step.” It helped me find a resource within a resource I already knew. Now I’ll pass that on…
Dr. Paul O’s Step Study Program
The guide begins with;
“Welcome to The Land of Beginning Again! If you aren’t satisfied with the way your life has been going and you’d like to chuck the whole thing and start all over again, then you hold in your hand a tool for doing just that and for doing it right this time. Beginning again, in the opinion of the editor, is what the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are all abou...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 9, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: The Fifth Step 5th-step admitted to God alcoholics-anonymous Into Action Source Type: blogs
Walking through fear
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I can relate to what is said in today’s reflection…
“If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.”
It adds;
“When I had taken my Fifth Step, I became aware that all my defects of character stemmed from my need to feel secure and loved.”
And that’s where I identify!
Reading further, the message becomes - I ask for God’s help and somehow (?) I find myself, having decided to walk through my fear, helping someone else who is walking through their fear! In this reflection the fears are identical.
I’m finding it “funny” righ...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 9, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: The Fifth Step emotional sobriety faith fear fifth-step helping others walking through fear Source Type: blogs
We are here to save lives
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The decision to conduct an intervention is never an easy one. In fact, it’s the most difficult choice that many people will ever make. But it’s also the most important. The fact of the matter is that interventions save lives. In deciding to conduct a drug abuse intervention or an alcoholism intervention, you take it upon yourself to help the addict you care about get back to living life the way he used to know it, before addiction turned him into a shell of his former self. It’s hard to imagine how any goal could ever matter more than that one.
The good news is that you don’t have to face the challenge by yourself....
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 8, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Vail Girl Tags: Interventions Rehab Centers Drug Abuse Source Type: blogs
Class action suit versus loto-quebec
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The judge in the class action suit versus Loto-Quebec, Gratien Duchesne, ruled yesterday that the trial must proceed starting on September 15, 2008. The process had been stalled by Loto-Quebec’s attorneys for the past seven years but they have been blocked from further delay tactics.
There is now a petition by the machine manufacturers attempting to [...] (Source: Gambling Watch Global)
Source: Gambling Watch Global - May 8, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Administrator Tags: General Source Type: blogs
5th step prayer
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Very short and sweeeeet… from Silkworth.net;
5th STEP Prayer
God I thank you from the bottom of my heart that I know you better. Help me become aware of anything I have omitted discussing with another person. Help me to do what is necessary to walk a free man at last. AMEN
(p. 75 BB)
Tags: 5th-step, admitted to God, alcoholics-anonymous, Into ActionShare This (Source: A Dozen Steps)
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 8, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: The Fifth Step 5th-step admitted to God alcoholics-anonymous Into Action Source Type: blogs
Little watermelon.
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"This little watermelon keeps making me cry," I told him."Why?""I always want to share all my fruit with you, and this little watermelon is exciting, and I think about the next exciting fruit that you won't be here to eat with me."He picked up the watermelon and tossed it around. "I wish you were a boy and we could throw this watermelon around. Let's go outside and break it." (Source: Heroin Addiction Codependence)
Source: Heroin Addiction Codependence - May 8, 2008 Category: Addiction Tags: fruit sigh watermelon Source Type: blogs
The campaign for love and forgiveness.
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Check out the Love And Forgiveness Campaign's letting go ritual. I thought it was kind of nice. (Source: Heroin Addiction Codependence)
Source: Heroin Addiction Codependence - May 8, 2008 Category: Addiction Tags: letting go Source Type: blogs
Great stuff
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Here's a library of resources from the recent recovery conference in Philadelphia.Of special note is this article: The Role of Clinical Supervision in Recovery-oriented Systems of Behavioral Health Care. It includes several references to Dawn Farm. (Source: Addiction and Recovery News)
Source: Addiction and Recovery News - May 8, 2008 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
How to avoid an addiction relapse
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What is a drug relapse? Basically, it is falling back into a former worse state or a recurrence of symptoms of a disease after a period of improvement. A drug relapse begins log before the individual uses their first drug or takes their first drink after quitting. It is going back to old behavior patterns.
The most common dangers are:
Being in the presence of former associates who are drug users or alcohol abusers, or visiting places where drugs or alcohol is available
Feeling angry, sad, lonely, anxious, afraid, or guilty
Wanting to celebrate
Boredom
Pain, physical or emotional
Listening to others tell stori...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - May 8, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs
Opiate treatment done in the most luxurious setting
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Opiate treatment isn’t easy. Some luxury drug treatment centers in Los Angeles would have you believe that opiate recovery is simply a matter of going through the motions of an exclusive opiate treatment program. But that’s not the way it works. The truth is that opiate addiction is a personal problem, and opiate treatment necessarily entails a personal effort. If you want opiate rehab to work for you, in other words, you’re going to have to work for opiate rehab.
Of course, that doesn’t mean you’re on your own. On the contrary, the support you get from opiate treatment professionals will be vital in helping you ...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 7, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Vail Girl Tags: Sober Drug Treatment Drug Treatment Center Source Type: blogs
Dry drunk - a favored phrase but what does it mean?
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Direct from the upper reaches of the US of A, Minnesota;
Dry Drunk Syndrome
I’ll give ya’ a small portion…
Conditions;
grandiosity
judgmentalism
intolerance
impulsivity
indecisiveness
Leading to the following:
a) Mood swings, which are unrelated to the circumstances to which one tries to link them. Alcoholics zero in on what they want others to think is the cause of the mood swing, when it isn’t that at all. More often than not it is something much deeper than the reason given. Inversely it can also be something totally insignificant with no substance at all (e.g. the sugar is too sweet or the d...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 7, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: Did You Know Pass It On Dry Drunk Grandiosity Intolerance Judgmentalism Lacking Recovery Self-Absorption Source Type: blogs
Use your mind to stop addiction
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It is just the strength of mind and strong will power which ultimately helps you reach the tough goals. Where there is a will, there is a way. Same is the motto that you need to follow if you wanna quit addiction. Whatever addiction. If addiction has become an integral part of your life, the more you try to quit it, the more you find yourself drawn towards it. You are trying to dismiss something with which you have been associated for so many times. Even the thought of departing from it needs a bulk of determination.
Does your mind keep wondering about your earlier failed attempts? Does the thought of quitting addiction ma...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - May 7, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs
The fifth step
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“Having made our personal inventory, what shall we do about it?”
Don H. would tell us when he shared that “AA has changed. Used to be that you’d throw your problems out on the table in a meeting then you’d wait to hear the solution. Now, you throw your problems out on the table and then go out and have a cigarette. You don’t wait for the answer. I wouldn’t mind if you’d throw your problems out if you’d just tell me what you’re going to do about them!”
Lest you attempt to diminish Don - he died with 55 years sober and was a direct descendant of some of the fi...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 7, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: Experience, Strength and Hope The Fifth Step 5th-step admitted to God alcoholics-anonymous Into Action Source Type: blogs
Providing intervention services
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The only successful intervention is the one that convinces an addict to seek rehab treatment. There is no other point to the crisis intervention process, no other reason that anyone would ever set out to conduct a drug and alcohol intervention in the first place. If you’ve made it this far, you already understand how devastating addiction can be. You know that it strips its victims of their dignity, and turns them into shells of the people they used to be. If the addict you care about is going to get better, it’s going to be because he’s made to see the truth in the course of an effective intervention. It’s hard to...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 6, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Vail Girl Tags: Interventions Source Type: blogs
The disappearing husband.
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I don't want my husband to stay. I don't want him to leave. I want him to be with me always and never. He fell asleep early last night, and it made my stomach tighten with panic. I don't want him to sleep. I don't want him to bother me when I'm sleeping. I want every moment to matter. I want to follow him around everywhere. I want him to follow me everywhere. I want to spend every second gazing at him.He has perfected the art of creating perfect longing for me. Our entire relationship has been a long, long, long grieving, a long wanting, a long longing. There have been moments of bliss, of union, of happiness that capped l...
Source: Heroin Addiction Codependence - May 6, 2008 Category: Addiction Tags: recovery marriage Source Type: blogs
The most elegant private drug rehab facility
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Private drug rehabs aren’t all the same. That’s a crucial fact to remember as you weigh your drug rehabilitation options. Given the number of private drug rehab centers in Los Angeles, some prospective patients assume that one drug rehab program must be more or less equivalent to the next one. But that’s not how it is. The plain fact of the matter is that drug rehab is a delicate art form, and drug rehabs can only be successful if they’re managed by people who know exactly what they’re doing. If you’re going to get better, in other words, you’re going to need the right kind of help.
Remember, no one can look ...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 6, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Vail Girl Tags: Drug Rehabs Drug Rehab Center Drug Rehabilitation Source Type: blogs
U.k. marijuana panic continues
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British Prime Minister plans to stiffen pot penalties.The national hysteria over "skunk" marijuana shows no signs of abating in Great Britain, as Prime Minister Gordon Brown is poised to overrule his advisors and reclassify cannabis as a more dangerous drug. Lost in the debate is any semblance of reasonable discussion about scientific research on marijuana.British health authorities continue to find the basics of cannabis to be an inscrutable mystery. Some months ago, they declared that "skunk" cannabis was linked to the onset of schizophrenia. Since no one knows what, exactly, causes schizophrenia, and recent findings con...
Source: Addiction Inbox - May 6, 2008 Category: Addiction Tags: marijuana addiction British marijuana skunk marijuana marijuana law Source Type: blogs
Las vegas feels us economic down turn
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In Down on it’s luck Newsweek writer Steve Friess examines the fallout of the downturn of the US economy on Las Vegas, usually believed to have been recession proof.
On the third weekend of every April, Emily Ann Frankston and her family—spread out over five states—meet up in Las Vegas for their annual family vacation. [...] (Source: Gambling Watch Global)
Source: Gambling Watch Global - May 6, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Administrator Tags: General USA Source Type: blogs
Quit smoking now
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Today we’re more aware about how bad smoking is for our health. The decision to quit smoking is one that only you can make. The only thing that really helps a person avoid the problems associated with smoking is staying smoke free. Everyone knows that smoking is harmful and addictive, but few people realize just how risky and addictive it is. Smoking is also a major risk factor for peripheral vascular disease, a narrowing of the blood vessels that carry blood to the leg and arm muscles. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, physical inactivity, obesity,and diabetes are all risk factors for heart disease, but cigaret...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - May 6, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs
Sex and healthy relationships in recovery
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This article will give many people in recovery food for thought.
What is a healthy relationship and how does sex fit in?
In the simplest terms, a healthy relationship is one that makes you feel good about yourself and your partner. Not only do you enjoy being together, but you can express your true self, and allow your partner to do the same. All relationships are different, of course, but healthy ones have at least five important qualities in common.
The acronym S.H.A.R.E. can help you remember these qualities.
Safety: In a healthy relationship you feel safe. You don’t worry that your partner will harm you physi...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - May 6, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addiction Adult Children of Alcoholics Al-Anon Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Codependent Domestic Violence Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Marijuana Anonymous Methadone Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous Nicotine Anonymous Recovery Sexuality Source Type: blogs
Alcoholism a woman’s disease too
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Alcoholism Is Not Just A “Man’s Disease” Anymore
A new examination of data on similarly aged groups, compared across decades, has found substantial increases in drinking and alcohol dependence among women.
Increases were particularly notable among white and Hispanic women – beginning with those born in the United States after World War II.
Cross-sectional studies, which collect information at a single point in time, generally find that young Americans report having more lifetime alcohol problems than older Americans, despite having had less time to develop these problems. But these studies are hampered by the...
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - May 6, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholism Demographics Gays, lesbians & bisexuals Stages of Change Symptoms of addiction Target populations Women Source Type: blogs
Gambling watch canada network newsletter
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Canada’s Gambling Watch Network’s weekly e-mailed Newsletter
Volume 9 Issue 028 CWE May 05, 2008
Canada
Lively London club bidding to keep game going is an article in The London Free Press of 5/2/08 dealing with a Bridge Club that is shrinking because its elderly members are dying. During the 1940s, 44% of American households had at least [...] (Source: Gambling Watch Global)
Source: Gambling Watch Global - May 6, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Johannes Deviet Tags: General Canada Activism Gambling Watch Canada Network Newsletter Source Type: blogs
And so i will distract myself...
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...with celebrity gossip... (Source: Heroin Addiction Codependence)
Source: Heroin Addiction Codependence - May 5, 2008 Category: Addiction Tags: heroin Source Type: blogs
Fate. faith.
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Today, I'm mad at my life. I'm mad at all the circumstances that brought me here and now. I know it's not how I'm supposed to do it. I'm supposed to be grateful. I'm supposed to believe that a higher power has brought me here, lovingly, to teach me something important, something that's going to help me. Not only am I supposed to have this faith, I know deep down that it's my only hope. The only way I'm going to get through what's coming next is to have faith that I'm going to be ok.I am not so sure that I'm going to be ok, though, and I'm not having an easy time trusting that this is all for a reason, that it isn't some ki...
Source: Heroin Addiction Codependence - May 5, 2008 Category: Addiction Tags: sadness fate faith anger Source Type: blogs
The second road
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I just registered for a membership on a site called The Second Road. I’ll give you the description of the site in The Second Road’s own words “We are a free non-profit online community BY and FOR people in recovery from addictions of all kinds. We welcome people of ALL stages of recovery using ANY method that works for them.”
This site caught my attention at first because it looks cool but The Second Road is much more than a cool looking website.
It is starting a true addiction recovery community feel amongst it’s members. All members create their own page and have the ability to write quick ...
Source: What Winners Do - May 5, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Erin Tags: support Source Type: blogs
Bragging not allowed!
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This is probably for all you lion taming, white knucklers out there…
From the 12&12 of Alcoholics Anonymous, page 55;
“So intense, though, is our fear and reluctance to do this (talk to somebody), that many A.A.’s at first try to bypass Step Five. We search for an easier way - which usually consists of the general and fairly painless admission that when drinking we were sometimes bad actors. Then, for good measure, we add dramatic descriptions of that part of our drinking behavior which our friends probably know about anyhow.”
You know, stuff exactly like what we did in those glorious gin mills ...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 5, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: Personal The Fifth Step 5th-step admitted to God alcoholics-anonymous Into Action Source Type: blogs
Time.
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Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree: Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.-Romeo And Juliet, III.5Time seems to be passing awfully fast. We have seven days until our indefinite separation begins. I am scared. I don't want him to go away. I want him to be here, and be different.Everything feels very important, very dear. It is hard to stay in the moment when such weight is hanging on the future. It is hard to detach when there's so much looming. It's hard to stay in myself, to ...
Source: Heroin Addiction Codependence - May 5, 2008 Category: Addiction Tags: addiction marriage Source Type: blogs
Am i addicted? a guide to coffee addiction
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A coffee addiction is a very serious problem. What makes coffee addiction all the more serious is the number of people that suffer from it without realizing it. At the lower end of the scale - where people are taking one or two cups a day on a regular basis — the effects of the caffeine itself are rather minimal. Even with an addiction to two cups of coffee a day, though, it is the withdrawal that causes the most stress on the body. If you drink more than two cups of coffee a day then not only will your withdrawal from the coffee addiction be painful, stressful and difficult, the effect of that much daily caffeine on...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - May 5, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs
Recovery epiphanies
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Epiphanies: Slowly Building Up Life Skills In Addiction Recovery
Erin has posted a wonderful experience of a spiritual awakening – the epiphany type – an educational spiritual awakening is happening for her. And, epiphanies remove the mask of denial whether it be for alcoholism, addiction or codependency.
Erin said; So I’ve talked, almost a sickening amount, about how active addiction keeps us from developing life skills. But what I really haven’t discussed is how being in addiction recovery makes building up life skills possible.
There I am driving down the road. I should be concentrating on, oh I don’t know...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - May 5, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Codependent Drugs Higher Power Recovery Spiritual awakening educational epiphany goals life skill Source Type: blogs
Activity does not equal action
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I first heard it from Fr. Martin…
Many people mistake activity for action. I think Fr. Martin relates it somewhat like this: I have to do a Fifth Step. Admit it to God, to myself and another human being. Well, I’ll go to another meeting and share about it there. And then another meeting, and another, etc. Hopefully you’ll get the idea.
That’s not action, that’s activity!
It is my personal belief that the Fifth Step is where I discovered what a master of self-delusion I am. Not only is going to more meetings to avoid actually doing a Fifth Step not action, it is really a disguised form a self-a...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 5, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: Personal The Fifth Step 5th-step admitted to God alcoholics-anonymous Into Action Source Type: blogs
Nothing for self-congratulation
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Returning to “The Language of the Heart” I found the only reference to the Fifth Step in that book from Bill W. on page 239.
Bill speaks of “Step Four and Step Five, dealing with self-survey and confession of one’s defects, have not been overly difficult, either.”
Well, good for you Bill… :)
He goes further;
“Of course, my self-analysis has frequently been faulty. Sometimes I’ve failed to share my defects with the right people; at other times, I’ve confessed their defects, rather than my own; and at still other times, my confession of defects has been more in the nature...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 4, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: The Fifth Step Source Type: blogs
Ambien detox and treatment at cliffside malibu
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Whoever you are, however in control you believe yourself to be, Ambien addiction can happen to you. And when it does, the only way to beat it is through proper Ambien detox and treatment. Addiction is a disease, not a choice. No one ever decides to succumb to Ambien abuse. By the same token, no one can ever simply decide to get sober. If you’re going to get better, it’s going to be because you seek Ambien detox and Ambien drug treatment from rehab professionals who know exactly what they’re doing. In the end, there’s simply no other way for healing to happen.
Remember too that Ambien detox and treatment can’t sta...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 4, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Vail Girl Tags: Drug Treatment Detox Source Type: blogs
Effects of alcohol abuse
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Have you ever thought of your relationship with alcohol as being an affair? Do you remember the first person you ever fell in love with? Do you remember how it felt, the butterflies in your stomach, how you wanted to be with the other person every minute of the day? And how anyone or anything which got in the way would be more than a minor irritation?
It sounds a bit similar to your relationship with alcohol doesn’t it? Relationships can go bad and even though they no longer good for us, still we cling and are unable to let go. The end of a relationship brings pain and the cycle of loss, anger,sadness and mourning co...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - May 4, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs
Epiphanies: slowly building up life skills in addiction recovery
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So I’ve talked, almost a sickening amount, about how active addiction keeps us from developing life skills. But what I really haven’t discussed is how being in addiction recovery makes building up life skills possible.
There I am driving down the road. I should be concentrating on, oh I don’t know… driving. But I’m not. I’m thinking about what it would take for my husband, my son and myself to be able to move out of where we live now. This train of thought somehow turned into setting goals for myself and then… Boom. It hit me, an epiphany.
An epiphany you say. Wow. Did you figure ...
Source: What Winners Do - May 4, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Erin Tags: life skills Source Type: blogs
Freedom from self-seeking
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Please free my thinking of self-will, self-seeking, dishonesty, and wrong motives.
–paraphrased from Alcoholics Anonymous
There is a difference between owning our power to take care of ourselves, as part of God’s will for our life, and self-will. There is a difference between self-care and self-seeking. And our behaviors are not as much subject to criticism as are the motives underlying them.
There is a harmonic, gentle, timely feeling to owning our power, to self-care, and to acts with healthy motives that are not present in self-will and self-seeking. We will learn discernment. But we will not always know the...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - May 4, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous Higher Power god Letting go Melody Beattie self-care self-seeking self-will Source Type: blogs
Significant may dates in a.a. history
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Significant May Dates in A.A. History
from AA History Lovers at Yahoo! Groups;
May 1919 - Bill returns home from service.
(Dec 1934 to) May 1935 - Bill works with alcoholics, but fails to sober any of them. Lois reminds him HE is still sober.
March-May 1938 - Bill begins writing the book Alcoholics Anonymous.
May 1939 - Lois W Home Replacement Fund started at Alcoholic Foundation.
May 1949 - The first AA meetings in Scotland were held in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
May 1950 - Nell Wing became Bill W’s secretary.
May 1951 - Al-Anon is founded by Lois W. and Anne B.
May 1, 1939 - Bank forecloses on 182 Clinton Street. (some...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 3, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: The 12 Steps AA History alcoholics-anonymous gratitude Recovery Source Type: blogs
Ten things to know about addiction
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From "Rethinking Substance Abuse."In the closing chapter of their 2006 book, "Rethinking Substance Abuse,” editors William R. Miller and Kathleen M. Carroll attempt to sum up what has been learned about the science of addiction. Their useful contribution, entitled Drawing the Science Together, offers "Ten Principles" that are designed to synthesize the welter of recent scientific research on addiction and help make sense of what we know.In vastly truncated form, they are as follows:1. Drug Use is Chosen Behavior At least in the beginning, people choose to take drugs, as one of the behavioral options available to them.2...
Source: Addiction Inbox - May 3, 2008 Category: Addiction Tags: drug addiction alcohol treatment addiction guidelines drug treatment Source Type: blogs
This… isn’t… easy
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My challenge is that regardless of doing the right thing I cannot get my expectations up that the results will be what I want them to be.
Therein lies one of my realities. I can care about someone. The level at which I care can increase. I can recognize right from wrong. I can do the right thing not simply in my opinion but in the opinion of many trusted, experienced friends. And the results might not be, will probably not be, what I would want in my dreams.
Which brings me to aligning my will with God’s will.
“More often, though, we had met up with some major calamity, and to our way of thinking lost out becau...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 3, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: Personal 11th-step 2nd-step 3rd-step love Source Type: blogs
Mine enemy grows older - no containment
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I was inspired by Bottlecappie at Diary of a Quitter to participate in Mine Enemy Grows Older which is a collaborative poetry project run by Rick Mobbs.
I have never in my life written poetry but I do love art. Since the whole concept of this project is to look at an image prompt, which is a work of art by Rick Mobbs, and see what it inspires out of you, I figured I would take a shot at it.
So without further ado… Here is my first shot (I’m getting embarrassed already!) at poetry.
No Containment
There is a piece of me in all I see
An infinite amount of connections that will always be
I’m in the ground, i...
Source: What Winners Do - May 3, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Erin Tags: just for fun Source Type: blogs
Why quit smoking?
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Long term smoking can be detrimental to your health. The estimated loss of years is between 13.2 and 14.5 depending on your sex according to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. On top of that, smoking related illness may be limiting if you want to be active because it can cause shortness of breath, making it harder to work, play and just getting around. Not only can smoking cause lung cancer but it also is a risk factor for cancer of the mouth, voice box or larynx, throat or pharynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, cervix, stomach and some forms of leukemia. There are a number of other lung problems inc...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - May 3, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs
Easy does it but do it: you can’t wait around for everything to just happen
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In recovery there is a great saying “Easy Does It But Do It”. I always understood what this saying meant but I never really applied it to my life.
I was living under the assumption that things always have a way of working themselves out. Which is true… if you do your part.
Since we work on our ability to accept the things we cannot change we should surer than shit be working on the other part to that which is having the courage to change the things we can.
A long time ago in my recovery I decided to live by a very simple plan: Do what I can, the best that I can each and every day. Simple right?
It’...
Source: What Winners Do - May 3, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Erin Tags: addiction recovery Source Type: blogs
Promoting both physical and psychological healing
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The best alcohol rehab is that which promotes both physical and psychological healing. Alcoholism, after all, is a two-headed disease. On the one hand, alcoholics are subject to acute metabolic dependencies, and literally need alcohol in order to maintain “normal” systemic functions. On the other, alcohol abusers are subject to self-defeating patterns of thought and behavior, which can themselves deepen dependancy and exacerbate the physical symptoms of alcoholism itself. What that means, in plain terms, is that alcohol addicts are sick both in body and in mind. Alcohol rehab can’t be successful unless it helps them ...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 2, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Vail Girl Tags: Alcohol Rehab Center Source Type: blogs
It is surely life or death!
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Alicia has posted a very serious and very helpful entry about “Suicide Warning Signs.”
This is one area where you darn well better do a Third Step after you’ve contacted authorities to let them know that your friend might be suicidal!
I’d much rather (and have been) feel grateful that my friend is still around to be PO’d at me for ratting them out than to be going to the funeral home for a viewing.
Of course, if you have a sponsor like I did he’ll spend the four hours you’re getting a psychiatric eval. out in the waiting room flirting with as many nurses as he can :)
And then, if y...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 2, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: Experience, Strength and Hope Principles Reality 11th-step 2nd-step 3rd-step love Source Type: blogs
Constipation in recovery
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People in recovery from alcoholism and addiction face a host of potential causes of constipation, including:
Past or present use of medications
Decreased eating or physical activity as a result of depression or another psychiatric disorder
Anxiety
Bad habits learned throughout their drinking or drugging career
Medical conditions gained through their addiction that decrease bowel movement.
This condition also can make people stop taking medications.
Constipation carries a tremendous cost in terms of resources and quality of life.
People can avoid the discomfort and quality-of-life consequences by promptly dealing with co...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - May 2, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addiction Alcohol Alcoholism Anxiety/Stress Depression Drugs Food problems Medication Recovery anemia bowels cancer colon constipation crohn's defecation Drinking drugging prescription probiotics stools Source Type: blogs
Powder cocaine comback
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This is certainly consistent with what I've been seeing in my intake interviews. I went years with very few mentions of recent powder cocaine use, but lately it's coming up every day. (Source: Addiction and Recovery News)
Source: Addiction and Recovery News - May 2, 2008 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Report for duty - suit up and show up
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No, sorry, not a military reference (btw - offer a soldier thanks today wouldya’?).
Today’s reflection speaks to page 124 in our basic text;
“Cling to the thought that, in God’s hands the dark past is the greatest possession you have - the key to life and happiness for others. With it you can avert death and misery for them.”
And the “response” reads;
“No longer is my past an autobiography, it is a reference book to be taken down, opened and shared. Today as I report for duty, the most wonderful picture comes through. For, though this day be dark - as some days must be - the ...
Source: A Dozen Steps - May 2, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Tags: The Fifth Step 5th-step admitted to God alcoholics-anonymous holding the key Source Type: blogs
