Everybody drinks – time and again, you hear students and adults say something like, “It’s normal. All kids drink.” And, often, researchers (myself included) focus on how many young people are drinking. The 2002 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health, for example, found that in 2006 almost one in five people aged… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: April 2009
To Talk or Not to Talk
by Lisa Frederiksen You’ve likely heard that Nic Sheff, whose highly regarded personal account, Tweak, of his addiction to crack heroin, methamphetamine, and other drugs, is struggling with relapses, which he shared publicly in a letter to CNN. Sheff’s father, David, wrote an earlier book of his experience in dealing with Nic’s addiction called, Beautiful… Continue Reading
Mrs. Marty Mann – Helping Alcoholics
Mrs. Marty Mann – the first woman member of AA – dedicated her life to helping alcoholics. As I mentioned in a previous post, I am reading an excellent biography on Mrs. Marty Mann, written by Sally Brown and David R. Brown, titled Mrs. Marty Mann, The First Lady of Alcoholics Anonymous. This a fascinating… Continue Reading
Links This Week
Here are some of the articles/posts I found helpful this week: The Real Insanity of the Disease of Alcoholism http://addictionrecoverybasics.com/2009/04/18/the-real-insanity-of-the-disease-of-addiction/ New NIDA Drug Screening Tool Unveiled http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2009/new-nida-drug-screening-tool.html Drug Abuse and Teens: the Adolescent Challenge http://www.allaboutaddiction.com/drug-abuse-and-teens-the-adolescent-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Stinkin’ Thinkin’ http://fine-anon.blogspot.com/2009/04/stinkin-thinkin.html… Continue Reading
Online Therapy Group
by Lisa Frederiksen I read a recent article about eGetGoing.com and was struck by the notion of online therapy groups for alcoholics / addicts. I am all for the idea that there are many approaches to addiction treatment, and this idea of online seems to be another way, and one that could prove very effective… Continue Reading
Impacts on Family Members of Alcoholics – Wisheda Coulda Woulda Shoulda
Sharing a poem describing the impacts on family members of alcoholics in recognition of April as National Poetry Month. There are many ways of saying and thus hearing things said, so I thought I’d share this poem from my collection titled, Breathe Out… Wisheda Coulda Woulda Shoulda Wished she coulda woulda shoulda understood his disease… Continue Reading