Showing posts with label AA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AA. Show all posts
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Take It Easy

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One day at a time.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

From Failure to Enthusiasm

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Guest Post By Andy "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill One of the...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Why Will Power Fails

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How to strengthen your self-control. (First published August 12, 2013) Reason in man obscured, or not obeyed, Immediately inordinate ...
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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Drugs and Disease: A Look Forward

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First published 2/18/2014. Former National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Alan Leshner has been vilified by many for referring...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

Hazelden Offers Companion to the “Big Book”

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New guide attempts a modest AA update. The founders of AA published their book, Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book) back in 1939. The ...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Craving Relief

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Why is it so hard for addicts to say “enough?” One of the useful things that may yet come out of the much-derided DSM-5 manual of menta...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Looking For the Science Behind the Twelve Steps

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Transcendence, or nonsense? What is it with the Twelve Steps? How, in the age of neuromedicine, do we account for the enduring concept ...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

John Berryman and the Poetry of “Irresistible Descent”

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“The penal colony’s prime scribe.” “Will power is nothing. Morals is nothing. Lord, this is illness.” —John Berryman, 1971 A year befo...
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

What Do We Mean When We Talk About Craving?

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An essay on drug addiction and need. For years, craving was represented by the tortured tremors and sweaty nightmares of extreme heroin a...
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Monday, August 15, 2011

What Does Harm Reduction Mean?

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A rift in the addiction treatment community over abstinence. What is harm reduction? How does it differ from the approaches traditionally...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Bill Manville’s Booze Book

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A “professional bar fly” who flirted with death and Helen Gurley Brown. "From the drinking man's classic, Saloon Society , back ...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Love, Loss, and Addiction

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Review of “This River” by James Brown. James Brown, author of “ The L.A. Diaries, ” has offered up another candid and courageous memoir in...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Book Review: Thinking Simply About Addiction

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Of bicycles, swimming, and drugs. Back when I first became interested in the science of addiction, I was fascinated by an article in Parab...
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Alcoholism: The Genetic Puzzle

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Fathers and Sons. The hunt for genetic influences on alcoholism derives largely from the work of Dr. Donald W. Goodwin, chair of the Depar...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

My Name is Roger

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A famed movie critic tells his story. Excerpted from : “My Name is Roger, and I'm an alcoholic.” By Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times Poste...
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