You Can Help an Alcoholic ACOA & Codependency Recovery Is Sexy feeds Twelve Step Facilitation Training
Posted by fredjoiners on November 9, 2009
What is your experience with people in recovery from alcoholism, addiction, codependency, and ACOA.
Were they sexy when practicing their dysfunctional behaviour?
Have they become more attractive since being in recovery?
Cast your vote in this poll.
Is recovery from alcoholism / addiction sexy?
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Posted by fredjoiners on November 8, 2009
We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other to stay clean. There are no dues or fees. The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop using.
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Posted by fredjoiners on November 6, 2009
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Posted by fredjoiners on November 3, 2009
The Lord is my sponsor, I shall not want.
He makes me to go to many meetings.
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Posted by fredjoiners on August 3, 2009
Britain’s National Health Service offering alcoholics ‘potentially lethal’ treatment, say campaigners UK Advocates threatens legal action against health authorities providing drug-based treatments over rehabilitation
Alcohol dependency affects 1.1 million people in Britain
National Health Service authorities that offer alcoholics controlled drinking treatments relying on medication rather than total abstinence could face legal action from a patients’ organisation.
UK Advocates, a pressure group campaigning for the wider availability of rehabilitation courses for addicts, is preparing to file claims against the Department of Health and local health services.
The charity maintains it has found evidence of thousands of patients with severe alcohol problems being given "psycho-active drugs" while they are still drinking.
The combination, it is alleged, can be "potentially lethal" and is at odds with the manufacturer’s prescription advice and guidelines. "In many cases," UK Advocates claims, "drugs and controlled drinking programmes are administered to sufferers without the doctor or clinicians involved having performed effective liver function tests to establish the extent of liver damage from excessive drinking.
"Treating alcoholics with drugs and on a basis of ‘moderation’ is similar to advising someone with lung cancer to cut down their smoking," says Bob Beckett, founder of UK Advocates.
"Controlled drinking programmes … hark back to the 1960s and 70s when we believed pharmaceuticals would cure everything, including addiction to alcohol. They simply have not worked.
Full story at; The Guardian, UK
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