Jenna’s Story: Part I Hi, my name is Jenna and I’m a recovering alcoholic. I’m twenty-two years old and it’s been sixty-three days since my last drink. I guess you could say I liked to be the funny popular girl that was up for anything and knew how to party. So that’s exactly what I did. What [...]
Continue Reading...Helping You to Recover from Alcohol and Drug Addiction. By David Gregson, Jay S. Efran, G. Alan Marlat The word “tao” is usually translated as “way”, “road”, “method”, “technique” or “principle”. As a concept, Tao is the most important topic in the philosophical Taoism (tao-chia). The Tao of Sobriety is a great read for people in Recovery. [...]
Continue Reading...Around 10:45 a.m. on Sunday, the LAPD ordered Tommy Lee’s personal pilot, David Martz, to land his helicopter after they observed him flying erratically directly underneath an LAPD police chopper observing a structural fire. After asking the helicopter to land, police, who intended to give David Martz a field sobriety test found that both Tommy [...]
Continue Reading...Sometimes admitting to yourself and others that you need help can be one of the most difficult steps to take on your road to recovery. As the The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) says in it’s information: “Acknowledging that help is needed for an alcohol problem may not be easy. But keep [...]
Continue Reading...One in five adult Americans lived with an alcoholic while growing up. These numbers may be surprising to some but for other can be all to familiar.
Continue Reading...Alcohol rehabilitation is a multi-phased process to help alcoholics find the path to sobriety and abstinence from further alcohol abuse. When an individual has decided that it is time for treatment for alcoholism, it’s quite a lengthy process. Rehabilitation for alcoholism tends to address a stated two-fold nature of drug dependency: physical and psychological dependency. [...]
Continue Reading...The homeless are everywhere and their numbers continue to climb. Anywhere from 700,000 to 2 million people are homeless, according to estimates of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. Close ties with Alcoholism make up for a large percentage of today’s homeless in America. Ruined lives, destroyed families and inabilities to find [...]
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