Recent Posts Tagged With 'aa'

• My Name is Roger

  Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 20:12 in aa, alcoholics anonymous, higher power, roger ebert

  A famed movie critic tells his story.Excerpted from :“My Name is Roger, and I'm an alcoholic.”By Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun TimesPosted on “Roger Ebert’s Journal,”August 25, 2009.© Sun-Times News GroupIn August 1979, I took my last drink. It...

• Addiction Assumptions: Denial

  Posted on Tuesday May 19th, 2009 at 11:59 in alcoholism, aa, denial, drug addiction, intervention

  Is denial always part of the deal?Maybe denial really IS just a river in Egypt. Lorraine T. Midanik, dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California in Berkeley, is convinced that the contemporary concept of denial as applied to ...

• Coffee and Cigarettes

  Posted on Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 at 15:54 in aa, alcoholics anonymous, chantix, aa and smoking, aa and coffee

  Recovering alcoholics and their drugs.It's no secret that alcohol and cigarettes go together. And it is common knowledge--and an AA truism--that recovering alcoholics take to strong black coffee like ducks to water.Now comes a study of Alcoholics Ano...

• LSD and Serotonin

  Posted on Sunday February 10th, 2008 at 14:50 in alcoholism, aa, drug addiction, lsd

  Early psychedelic research on alcoholism.What did LSD do to the brain, exactly, in order to set off the fireworks that so fascinated brain scientists, hippies, and government spies? And why, after years of massive, unauthorized field-testing, so to s...

• Does AA Work?

  Posted on Sunday June 24th, 2007 at 21:06 in Treatment, addiction, aa, alcoholics anonymous

  Bill W., co-founder of AA(Adapted from "Addiction: The Search for a Cure.")Despite recent progress in the medical understanding of addictive disease, the amateur self-help group known as Alcoholics Anonymous, and its affiliate, Narcotics Anonymous, a...