Articles related to "Alcoholism"



Living a Full Life
Living a full life means the happiness but also the aches and pains of life.
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Alcoholism and Women
An article defining alcoholism and its affects on women.
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A pill to Cure alcoholism?
Using science to battle cravings, withdrawl, and alcohol itself – the Cure or another Tool in the Recovery shed?
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A Review of We Were the Mulvaneys
Introduce yourself to the Mulvaneys, witness their heart-wrenching story, meet unforgettable characters, and fall in love with a real family with real problems.
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Are You An Adult Child Of An Alcoholic?
One woman's tale of being an adult child of an alcoholic.
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Are you ready for recovery?
Recovery isn't easy. Don't expect it to be. But you can have a strong back to carry the load...the strength comes from recovery and your higher power.
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Be Committed to Recovery
Make a commitment to recovery. It's a simple process.
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Do I want what life wants?
God’s way is for the ultimate good. Yet how do we know what the ultimate good is?
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Do I want what life wants?
God’s way is for the ultimate good. Yet how do we know what the ultimate good is?
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Do I want what life wants?
God’s way is for the ultimate good. Yet how do we know what the ultimate good is?
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Four Important Concepts for Recovery
The concepts behind the steps of recovery sometimes make them easier to understand and apply to our everyday lives.
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Good luck, bad luck. Who knows?
Are you a worrier? Lack faith in the positive outcomes waiting for you in the future? Check out this story often used by Rev. Anthony Demello to make a point about turning our will and our lives over to the care of God.
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Hiding Behind The Family Coat of Arms
So you drank or used to be happy? Did it work? Who do you have to blame for your unhappiness? Do you hide behind the family coat of arms?
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Is Skeleton Woman Interfering With Your Marriage?
You thought your spouse's recovery would be the best thing since sliced bread? Right. He's not even around to break bread with these days!
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Living With Physical and Verbal Abuse in Recovery
You've experienced terrible physical and verbal abuse, but when you tell your story at meetings or to your sponsor, all you seem to get in response is, "Keep the focus on yourself." That makes you feel so misunderstood and alone, doesn't it?
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MPD/DID And Alcoholic/Addict Too?
A very high percentage of individuals with MPD/DID also struggle with alcoholism or drug addiction or both. I did, and it was through the 12 steps of AA that I not only got sober but found recovery for MPD/DID too.
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One Day at A Time
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, how would you spend today? Living one day at a time, we always spend that day as well as we can.
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Review—The Alcoholic
The Alcoholic is a shrewd portrayal of one man's addictive behavior gone AWOL tinged with black humor and gritty soul-searching.
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Schizophrenia and Substance Abuse
Substance abuse problems are common amongst people with schizophrenia and nobody really knows why. People with both conditions have had great difficulty in getting treated because the two conditions require quite different treatment strategies, and neither program would accept such people with a dual diagnosis. Untreated for either condition individuals are much more liklely to get in trouble with the law, and end up in a prison instead of a hospital.
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Spirituality is an Altered State of Consciousness
Wondering about the spiritual part of recovery and how important it is? It is the foundation of recovery. So how you do you get on a spiritual path?
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The Concepts Behind the Twelve Steps
What doe the Twelve Steps of recovery programs like A.A. and Al Anon mean? Here's one way of breaking the steps down into some concepts to help us understand how the steps can help us in our daily lives.
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What is your nightmare?
Attachments to things, people, places and ideas can become so obsessive that we lose focus on other things. Then they're no longer relationships, work, food, ideas, and normal success...they are something much worse!
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What's Your Boiling Point?
People in recovery often find that their number one character defect is anger and an inappropriate expression of that anger. This anger can lead to violent altercations with other people, even people we love.
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Women in Recovery: The Spiritual Part of the Program
Is putting down the drink enough for women who find themselves drinking too much?
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Women Need Friendship for Recovery
Women trying to balance their recovery with their commitments to other people have difficulties with traditional messages of recovery, like attending 90 meetings in 90 days.
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Wondering What To Do About Another Person’s Addiction?
Recovering yourself is one thing. Living with someone who isn't in recovery is another thing. Can you hack it?
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Test Your Knowledge
Short quiz pertaining to effects, influencing factors and risks associated with Women and Alcoholism.
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A Place Called Wiregrass: Morris
Review of A Place Called Wiregrass by Michael Morris, an absorbing tale of people trying to rise above the margins of their lives in the South.
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Addiction and Spirituality
Offers a simple, easy to understand definition of addiction versus drug dependency, of spirituality versus religion.
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Alcoholic Authors: Truman Capote
Truman Capote's escapades while drunk are legendary although he tried to stay off liquor and would stop drinking for several months but could not stay away from it.
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There is No Quick Fix in Recovery
So you want to get this recovery business over with? Get things fixed and move on? Hold on...it's not quite that easy! Simple, but not easy.
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Vitamins and Alcohol Consumption
Everybody talks about achieving optimum health but rarely do we broach the subject of drinkers who need to increase their vitamin intake to compensate for what they lack.
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Why am I Addicted?
One of the biggest questions we have when first facing a drinking or drug addiction problem is "Why am I this way?" Family and friends may also wonder what went wrong.
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Alcoholic Authors: William Faulkner
William Faulkner became famous for his writing and infamous for his drinking while creating award winning novels, poems, short stories and screenplays.
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the first Indian boarding/residential school, starts a controversial program of assimilating natives into the white man's culture
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Multi-talented Patrick Swayze
Learning to dance from an early age, Patrick Swayze developed a versatile acting career.
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Rome's Fall From Power
Rome, a power in ancient times, lasted for nearly 1000 years. The reasons for its fall are numerous and some main contributors to its downfall will be discussed.
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The Poetry of Branwell Bronte
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are celebrated 19th century novelists. Their brother Branwell's own literary works are often overlooked.
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Author Snapshot: Poe, Edgar A
A brief snapshot biography of the life and works of American Author Edgar Allan Poe
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Alcohol's Health Benefits & Risks
Whether or not it is safe for you to drink depends on your physical and psychological health profile.
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Animaniacs, Pinky DVD's announced
Mark your calendars: Animaniacs Volume 2 and Pinky & the Brain Volume 2 hit DVD shelves on December 5.
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How to Reduce or Stop Drinking
It is important to know whether or not you are drinking too much and if so, to have a manageable strategy for cutting back or quitting completely.
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Dark News Tape (October, 28)
Doom/Death metal music news of the week
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Jackson Pollock
Article on American abstract artist Jackson Pollock.
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Mathias James Reed (1925 - 1976)
A brief bio of Blues legend Jimmy Reed
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Amelia Earhart: Great Aviator
The story of Amelia Earhart, whose life and preemature death was a memorable blend of bravery, adventure and tragedy.
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Benefits and Functions of Biotin
This little-known vitamin may prevent birth defects, improve quality of life for diabetics, and treat a number of skin conditions.
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Canadian Residential Schools
A legacy of physical and sexual abuse of Aboriginal students in religious-run residential schools has come to light in recent court cases.
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Hereditary Hemochromatosis
The mutations that cause Hereditary Hemochromatosis lead to problems with iron storage in the body and can injure your heart, pancreas, liver and joints.
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Stamp It Out
Please support this postcard campaign from Survival International, aiming to eradicate popular notions of indigenous people being "primitive" in literature and the media.
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