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Families Need Recovery when affected by Substance Abuse – Reach Recovery
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Originally posted on Angel Face Foundation: http://youtu.be/5VaK3vD8Iqg Published on Aug 21, 2013 Awareness video by http://www.ReachRecovery.org A major proponent to raising awareness is to educate family members for their own need of recovery. Since family members tend to focus all their energy an …
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Neuro Feedback “Improves Musicianship”
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A great article posted in BBC News July 2003: How NeuroFeedback “Improves Musicianship” Scientists have created a technique that dramatically improves the performance of musicians.The system – called neurofeedback – trains musicians to clear their minds and produce more creative brain waves. Researc …
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Mardis Gras … Riverboats.. New Orleans… Winter Winter Go Away… Come Again Another Decade…
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Binge Drinking And Alcoholism in the News

Mr Selfridge's Alfie Boe confesses to battling alcohol addiction
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With a UK tour and a starring role in ITV's hit drama Mr Selfridge, Royal favourite Alfie Boe might be expected to raise a glass or two to his success. Instead he'll celebrate with a cup of hot chocolate as he fights a daily battle to stop binge drinking.
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UK government eyes cheap alcohol ban to tackle binge drinking
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The British government is preparing a ban on the sale of the cheapest alcohol in England and Wales in a bid to tackle binge drinking. Under proposals announced by the home office, from April retailers won't be allowed to sell alcohol for less than the …
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RIVERSIDE: Encounters show complexity of helping homeless
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At a community meeting in late January, about a dozen people who live near La Sierra Park in Riverside clamored for solutions to homeless people who the residents said frighten them and cause trouble at the park with drug use, panhandling and alcoholism.
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Kenyan county wants sex offenders castrated
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It is not only against children, but also against the disabled, the aged and domesticated animals," he said, blaming alcoholism and unemployment for the problem. "The offenders are taking advantage of the leniency of the Kenyan courts," he added …
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Beyond the Costas
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Viewpoint: Alcoholism can hit close to home – The Baylor Lariat
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The Baylor Lariat

Viewpoint: Alcoholism can hit close to home The Baylor Lariat College alcoholism is anchored in the powerful illusion of the attractive drunk — the young college student with a bit of money in his pocket, little responsibility and a selfish recklessness that appears as a zest for life. His cavalier attitude and …

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Blog Post #20 – Cloudy Inferiority
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Over this past week in class, we decided to do many things pertaining to our current book, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. Most of what we did during class though had to do with writing analyses over certain parts of reading that we had done the week before and over the weekend. In my experience, t …
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To you worthless punks who blame A.A. for labelling alcoholism as a Disease…
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… looky what your local hospitals are labelling drug addiction as now… a substance abuse disorder.
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A Game of Chess
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Friday 2/7/2014 Sober day 4 I have to admit that I enjoyed the feeling the Librium gave me, but I was worried about dependance. It is a benzo, after all, which are quite addictive. Its a little strange that in order to get clean of substance addiction, you have to introduce a new substance into your …
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International research project: The more available alcohol is, the more likely that people will drink heavily
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( Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research ) The bulk of knowledge about alcohol consumption and problems comes from high-income countries.The International Alcohol Control study was established to collect and compare data from both high- and middle/low-income countries.New IAC results show that heavy-drinking New Zealanders tend to buy cheaper, off-premise alcohol, and purchase it at later …
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Blurred Lines? Sexual boundaries are not really all that blurred
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( Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research ) Sexual aggression has become a common experience in bars. New findings show that approximately 90 percent of the incidents involve male initiators and female targets.The initiators' level of invasiveness was related to intoxication of the targets but not their own intoxication.This suggests that intoxicated women were being targeted, perhaps …
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