Recovery | Alcoholics Anonymous – Everything you ever wanted to know
Recovery | Alcoholics Anonymous – Everything you ever wanted to know – Alcoholics Anonymous – Everything you ever wanted to know but where afraid to ask. Well not all of them, but it is a good sized swing at this topic as a whole. One could spend hours on this topic. I have grown quite tired of the self important XA people and their hateful commentary. None of what they claim is true in anyway. They like to claim a non-religious status, but their links to religion are quite clear to say the very least. They claim that have a great success ratio and in fact it is 5% or less. They claim a false dichotomy in which they give you 2 choices. Their way or death, when in fact there are lots of other solutions to your alcohol or drug abuse. AA defends like a religion so I use the same debate tactics with it.
A War of Total Destruction
Filed under: drug abuse addiction
In 1974 President Nixon appointed the Shafer Commission to look into our drug policies. Their report concluded that drug addiction and abuse is a medical problem and not a criminal one, and that it should be handled as such, was not well received by …
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A Street Addict's Cycle in NYC
Filed under: drug abuse addiction
This way, reintegration to a productive life post-arrest for street addicts becomes a spool of fiction. Instead, the neighborhood's arrest-laden, marginalized members land in a system hedge maze where paths converge back at homelessness and drug abuse.
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IOM: Military Needs Better Care for Addicts
Filed under: drug abuse addiction
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department needs more providers trained in treating substance abuse in the armed forces, according to an Institute of Medicine report. The prevalence of comorbid behavioral conditions "necessitates access to providers …
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Heroin addict found guilty of murder
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A DRUG addict and self-confessed burglar and robber faces the rest of his life in prison after he tied up, gagged and murdered a vulnerable 62-year-old alcoholic in his Northamptonshire home. Phillip Haslam, 36, was unanimously convicted at Northampton …
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