Warming center looks to expand
Again this winter, Hope Through Christ Ministries in Baraboo is operating a warming center to keep homeless people safe from the cold overnight. People who arrive seeking a warm bed also are treated to meals, clothing, toiletries and shower access …
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Temple rehab center helps those with dependence
TEMPLE — Local agency Christian Farms Treehouse is a substance abuse facility that offers residential treatment for people suffering a drug or alcohol dependence. “It was founded because community members felt the need for substance abuse help,” said …
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Calendar of events 12/27
MOMS Club of North Murfreesboro meetings: 10:30 a.m., Moms Offering Moms Support (MOMS) support group for stay-at-home mothers, first Friday each month, First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, Thompson Lane. For more information, contact …
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Question by Rev Run: Why do people say that once an alcoholic always an alcoholic?
So even if a person never has another drink they will always be an alcoholic? I don’t get it. How can a person be cured and still have the disease for the rest of their lives? I never hear people say once depressed always depressed or once with the flu always with the flu.

Best answer:

Answer by Crystal
They say that about everything, but it’s false.

Answer by W. Coastal Eddie
Because alcoholics crave alcohol. Just because they find a way to deny themselves the wonderful taste and feel of alchohol doesn’t mean that they’re not still craving it. They’ll always crave it (because it’s so good), they’ll just have to try to live their lives one day without a drink at a time- because they know that they can’t handle the stuff.
The flu- you get it, your immune system beats it up- it’s gone. Very different. Depression, I don’t know about. A couple of beers and I’m very happy.

Question by zack5106: For Brian S., and your argument against same-sex marriage?
You said:
“You prove my point exactly. Many supporters of gay marriage are not even willing to consider someone else’s view. In contrast, homosexuality is a life style choice and should not be given special rights. While homosexuals may be born with homosexual tendencies, they still make an active decision to be gay. There are many other tendencies that people are born with such as alcoholism, drug addiction, etc., that people control and have choice over. These people don’t get special treatment or rights. This is just another tendency that people can embrace or ignore. All people are born with certain tendencies. We can’t begin giving rights to lifestyle choices or the list will never end.”

My only question to you, Brian. Notwithstanding the fact that we are all human and subject to lustful desires. Both Gay AND Straight.
But, let me ask. Is love truly a lifestyle choice, or a tendency?
If you fell in love with a girl, the kind of love thats super-human, super-natural, whos origin could only be found in the heavens above, the kind of love that you would die for someone. Would you call this a lifestyle choice, or an aberrant “tendency,” akin to alcoholism or drug abuse?
What gay people are looking for is acceptance and validity. That the love between two human souls, regardless of gender, is just as deep and just as valid as any love which ever existed between the proverbial “man and woman.”

Best answer:

Answer by Alexis
The entire issue is this simple:

The Constitution guarantees equal rights. The 14th Amendment spells this out specifically. Same-sex couples are having their Constitutionally-guaranteed equal rights ignored.

Period.

Answer by The Candy Man
Brian’s argument is full of inconsistent reasoning. He is not the moral compass of the world.

by Vancouver Coastal Health

Question by gary: Why are alcohol classes and detox centers so expensive?
Seems like a monopoly of “health services” by the government. An alcohol class can cost around $ 200 and a night at a detox center is $ 495. A detox center is usually just a terrible hotel like place with no actual medical help. What are the cost paying for with these ‘services’?

Best answer:

Answer by Xx(Jakers)xX
If you want to stop abusing alcohol, go to a community church. Usually churches have a plethora of different counselling/addiction classes which are FREE

The Braverman Eye Center Offering Treatments for Presbyopia in Florida
Presbyopia is one such problem that directly affects almost everyone's vision at some point. Patients affected with this disease often develop functional disability in their vision,mainly, the inability to see up close. This is commonly known by the …
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Lakeview Health, a Florida-based drug and alcohol rehab center, has hired Chef …
Chef Marco is a recognized expert in this expanding culinary discipline and has worked to develop other recovery-focused menus for addiction treatment centers nationally. This marks the latest expansion by Lakeview Health under its new leadership in 2013.
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by Phil Roeder

Question by Katie: How can you forgive someone who is not sorry for wronging you?
I have been hurt someone and they are not sorry for what they’ve done. I have tried to communicate with this person and they won’t apologize to me, and said “they’re mad” at me. I did not do anything, this person hurt me.

This person will admit to my friends that he was wrong, but won’t admit to me he was wrong. How can we reconcile this, i think its hopeless. I’ve tried to communicate with this person but I get the “silent treatment”.

Best answer:

Answer by Legandivori
Thje person is correct in that that person wants to hurt you and it is working. The best way is to forbive yourself for spending a lot of time trying to change someone from their destructive ways.

Answer by ptw1701
It’s not always easy, but in time you might find it in your heart to forgive this person for whatever he/she did. The reason this person will admit fault to others instead of you is because he/she may feel guilty. For some, its easier to admit fault to others than to admit it to the person that’s been hurt face to face.

Therapy That Confronts Trauma of Sexual Abuse Helped Teen Girls With PTSD
TUESDAY, Dec. 24, 2013 (HealthDay News) — Teen girls struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from sexual abuse do well when treated with a type of therapy that asks them to repeatedly confront their traumatic memories, according to a …
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De Blasio's Daughter Reveals Substance Abuse
In a video released by her father's campaign team, Ms. de Blasio said she had sought treatment for her troubles, which she said worsened when she left home for college in 2012. “It made it easier, the more I drank and did drugs, to share some common …
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Prolonged exposure therapy found beneficial in treating adolescent girls with …
… of prolonged exposure therapy – in which patients revisit and recount aloud their trauma-related thoughts, feelings and situations – shows greater success than supportive counseling for treating adolescent PTSD patients who have been sexually abused.
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