'Marijuana Recovery' – The Next Major Support Group for Recovering Alcoholics …
And with the current trend in favour of the legitimation of marijuana use, it should not be long before support groups start popping up centered on marijuana use to help people kick harder drugs. There might already be a few such groups out there as I …
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Be aware of prescription drug problem
As a Christian minister and an Alcohol and Drug Counselor, my desire is to find help for the individual struggling with an addiction and those that have been affected by the addict: family, friends, co-workers, fellow church members, etc. It has been …
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Support Groups January 25, 2013
These support groups are set to meet in the next two weeks: ACTS – Alcohol Chemical Treatment Series – is a curriculum-based self-help, recovery and educational program for anyone wanting to recover from alcohol or drugs, and their families. ACTS meets …
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Question by Meghan W.: General addiction support?
I have what I believe to be an addiction, but it does not fall into the regular “groups” (Drugs, Alcohol, Sex/Porn, etc). Are there any general addiction support groups where I could seek peer aid?

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Answer by kim s
It’s kinda hard to help if we don’t know what the addiction is. But there might be a support group for it. Maybe try googling it instead.

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Mother helping parents cope with kids' drug abuse
That's why the addiction that threatened the life she hoped for her family proved to be so paralyzing two years ago. Today, Salzbrunn is the founder of Temecula's Parent Support Group, where she helps parents grappling with the very question she asked …
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'Golden Voice' says God helped him overcome drug addiction
The Golden Voice Delivers Christmas Presents: A new support group for parents of drug addicts kicked off its efforts Wednesday by having Ted Williams, a man made famous in 2011 for his “golden voice," share a story of homelessness and addiction.
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Prescription Drug Abuse and Sober Living Homes
Getting a support group to help you counter drug addiction problems can get you far. It would also help a great deal if you will learn to accept that you have a drug addiction problem. In all honesty, this is perhaps the first and the most important …
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Question by steel9maiden: What exactly is a therapeutic community?
Could you go into some detail please; the stuff that I found on Google gave one-sentence answers and were not very enlightening.

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Answer by soyabeanlover
support group ? ? Not sure myself :p

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Prescription Drug Abuse and Sober Living Homes
For those of you who might have a problem, sober living homes are a great source of education and support to help you reverse your cycle of abusing prescription drugs and drug addiction. When you become addicted to a drug, you will be dependent on the …
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Mother helping parents cope with kids' drug abuse
That's why the addiction that threatened the life she hoped for her family proved to be so paralyzing two years ago. Today, Salzbrunn is the founder of Temecula's Parent Support Group, where she helps parents grappling with the very question she asked …
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Zombie Island: Puerto Rico Drug Addiction Turning Resident Users Into Zombies …
Nations around the world are investing in their society by providing drug treatment facilities, support services and training instead of incarcerating drug addicts! The end result has produced reduced drug addiction and a reduction in crime! Puerto …
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Had to retire early

Image by K. Kendall
Met this gentleman at the acupuncture clinic this afternoon. He’s there for his hands.

"It’s my work," he told me. "I was in automobile body repair, always using my hands, banging them up. I had to quit working. Got carpal tunnel, couldn’t use my hands no more. Started doing auto body work when I was a kid. My grandfather taught me. He was Native American, all my people are Native. We moved here forty years ago when the shipyards was hiring. But that wasn’t my real work. My real work always was advocacy for Native people. Started an alcohol recovery clinic right after I moved to Portland, and later my son, my daughter, my grandson, even my great-grandkid used it. Glad it was there for them. That was my real work. I still do that work. You ought to see me in my headdress. Everybody likes to take pictures of that. We got a special school going right now, about to graduate sixteen kids. They never would have finished high school nowhere else. That’s my real work. But I can’t use my hands no more. Used ’em up, I guess."

Sorry for the terrible quality. Dark clinic waiting room, only had my pocket camera. Here’s a moment when I wished for the Nikon. But then again, if I’d hauled out that big brick of a computer-on-a-rope, it would have changed the whole energy in the waiting room. The pocket camera is discreet. Quiet. Doesn’t call attention to itself.

Ebony Lifeline aims at addiction prevention, recovery among minorities
If you have decided this is the year you want to try to eradicate the demons of addiction and alcoholism, consider giving Ebony Lifeline Support Group a call. The group began as a grass-roots movement in 1984 through the efforts of founders Bob Thomas …
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Recovery from alcohol addiction should be cause for celebration, not …
Me and my Daddy were sitting side by side looking out the big kitchen window, instead of looking at one another. We hated to see the other cry. “I'm going into treatment at Washington Way I can be an out patient with the support group of AA. I hope I …
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Addiction: Recovering addicts reach out to others
Addictions can run the gamut from gambling, shopping and overeating, to alcohol and drug abuse. Three recovering addicts share their stories of addiction and recovery here in their own words, in the hopes of inspiring others to start anew in the coming …
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