Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is surely one of the leading known preventable causes of mental and physical birth defects. A woman who drinks alcohol runs a great risk of causing serious birth defects to her unborn child. These mental and physical defects can, and usually do, last throughout their whole lives. Consuming alcohol during pregnancy puts [...]
Continue Reading...Continuation…. My family had no choice but to shut me out, I was as dangerous to them as I was to myself. Life spiraled out of control, I hated the person I had become but I was falling so fast I couldn’t even decide which way was up. In fact, it was like I wasn’t [...]
Continue Reading...The alcohol rehab program at Cliffside Malibu offers hope for alcoholics and their families. Their staff draws upon a wealth of experience in successfully treating alcohol dependency, using group, family and individualized psychological/emotional therapy in addition to alternative treatment methods such as yoga and acupuncture. Their alcohol rehab program has been developed by experts to [...]
Continue Reading...I did it. I hit rock bottom. As a roadie for a rock band I started drinking and partying and living like the image I had in my head of a ‘rock star’ or a ‘celebrity’ because it looked like they were having so much fun. At first, the parties were new, the people I [...]
Continue Reading...Recently, 14 teenage kids admitted in court to attending a party which was fueled by alcohol last October in an area of the woods in Norfolk, Massachusetts. After the party, 17-year-old Taylor Meyer drowned in a swamp hust a few miles away. The age of the kids who attended the party ranged from 16 to [...]
Continue Reading...By Bert Pluymen At one time, Bert Pluymen was named one of the best lawyers in America. However his book, The Thinking Person’s Guide to Sobriety concentrates on a stimulating perspective on alcoholism. Editorial Reviewer, Marlene Chamberlain wrote, “He (Pluymen) is careful to point out that alcoholism is not just a disease of the down [...]
Continue Reading...Shia LaBeouf star of the upcoming film “Transfomers 2” has been testing the waters of Alcoholism for quite some time now. His most recent being the July 27th early morning traffic collision in which he flipped his Ford F150 but the 22-year-old actor will still face misdemeanor DUI charges for signs of intoxication at the [...]
Continue Reading...Standing majestically high above the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California; Passages Malibu Cure Center looks more like a Hollywood movie set than a place to overcome a severe Alcohol Dependency. Near the entrance of the $23 million mansion is a well-stocked Koi pond, two stone-carved lions with gargoyle-like faces guard the marble walkway to [...]
Continue Reading...Jenna’s Story: Part II continuation: No matter how much I didn’t listen, they still talked to me and tried to get me to see how screwed up I was. Nine hundred and ninety nine times out of one thousand, I didn’t listen to them…. Even though I said I did. I knew I had to [...]
Continue Reading...Alcoholism affects many people in the US and has quickly become one of our fastest growing dependencies to date. Over 18 million adults suffer from alcohol use disorders. Some argue, why it is that Alcoholics develop the problems and issues that they do and a big part of it is internal issues that may be [...]
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