To Be Alive & Young By Alida AKA: the Frenemy Or A Declaration What happened? There, with the young face slack with worry, disdain, and exactly the kind of look eyeliner or a beer on a Saturday doesn’t cover up. I’d call that longing, you call it boredom. A listless feeling that where you are [...]
Continue Reading...We are pleased to invite anyone, with a problem with alcohol and currently in recovery for at least one year, to send us something you have written about recovery. We are all story tellers and that innate ability has helped many of us share about ourselves and uncover truths, as well as assist others find [...]
Continue Reading...This is from my friend Heidi @ http://goodlifenoalcohol.wordpress.com/ Please check out her blog and support her. The functional alcoholic (not in recovery) is still attempting to control his own life and manage his secret addiction. He is a willing subject of King Alcohol. Therefore he hasn’t hit “bottom.” He is not ready to consider getting [...]
Continue Reading...The story of my life and my 45 years of alcohol and drug abuse, how I recovered and what my life is like now is intended to help others recover. It is an illustration that we can end this debilitating disease’s devastation of our families. We have a choice and an opportunity to ensure that [...]
Continue Reading...The disease of alcoholism is a gradual deteriorative affliction that devastates entire families and will continue to do so unless the alcoholic member takes action to live a life of sobriety, physically and mentally. It affects the person who is addicted to alcohol, that person’s family and everyone who interacts with that person. Consider the [...]
Continue Reading...Our fellowship and the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous repeatedly relate stories of one alcoholic helping another. There is a chapter entitled ”Working With Others”. Our founders stressed that we had to seek out others afflicted with our disease and tell them how we did it; our hands always have to open to receive newcomers. [...]
Continue Reading...The word Alcoholism can be a tough term to deal with but nobody is too young (or too old for the matter) to have a problem with alcohol abuse. Teens can have an especially difficult time recognizing a developing drinking problem. However, make no mistake; teens are just as susceptible to alcoholism as adults are. [...]
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...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...Lindsey Lohan, just like many other celebrities in Hollywood, has admitted herself into rehab multiple times already. Despite her reputation as a party girl, Lohan had long denied that her social life had gotten out of hand.
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