Pope to Recovering Drug Addicts: The Church Is With You, but You Need the Will to Stand Up

Published February 16, 2014

Pope to recovering drug addicts: The Church is with you, but you need the will to stand up – http://en.romereports.com A few hours after celebrating his first World Youth Day Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Aprecida, the Pope visited a hospital tha…

Fisher visits shady LA apartment

Filed under: drug addiction help recovery

Fisher has long chronicled her battle with drugs and recovery, including in her 1987 best-selling novel, “Postcards from the Edge,” and in her 2008 autobiography, “Wishful Drinking.” In her autobiography, Fisher wrote how she was first offered …
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Is the AA system of addiction recovery too unscientific to work?

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Of course it helps to have a sober buddy to help you through tough times. But as Maia Szalavitz writes over at Time, this model runs into problems when these non-expert sponsors start dispensing medical advice. This is especially a problem in Narcotics …
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District 5 – Timothy Crum

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… voted against increased taxation; project manager, Access to Recovery, a three-year $ 21 million New Mexico drug and alcohol addiction recovery project — during my tenure approximately 9,000 New Mexico citizens were assisted; deputy director …
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