Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
09-10-2016, 01:35 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 24,703
A Great, Laughing Love
When I was about eleven years old, some friends of my parents, who were devout Baptists, took my sister and me and their own kids to one of those hell-and-brimstone, evangelist tent meetings. The...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
08-12-2016, 05:05 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 24,703
sober stick figure
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/features/weekend/4092641-amber-tozer-pens-one-funniest-books-alcoholism-youll-ever-read
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
07-12-2016, 06:34 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 24,703
obit for Adele Donovan
http://www.pressherald.com/2016/07/11/adele-donovan-longtime-advocate-for-women-struggling-with-alcoholism-dies-at-91/
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
07-03-2016, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 24,703
one woman's story
http://cullmansense.com/articles/2016/07/02/addiction-alcoholism-and-consequences-being-life-party-part-6
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Forum: Recovery Topics and Questions
06-17-2016, 05:03 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 11,175
My sponsor usually tells me exactly what God...
My sponsor usually tells me exactly what God needs me to hear.
Somewhere in the advice phase of our conversation regarding such grave conditions, the big book phrase, "as only the dying can be,"...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
04-30-2016, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 21,647
Alcoholism and the field of medicine
The following are drugs currently used to treat alcoholism.
This list is strictly for informational purposes:
Declinol, Thiamine by injection, Naltrexone (Revia), Chlordiazepoxide (Librium),...
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Forum: New Member Check In
04-26-2016, 05:05 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,488
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
03-31-2016, 05:09 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 21,647
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
03-25-2016, 06:47 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 21,647
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Forum: Alcohol, Drugs and Other Addictions Recovery
03-21-2016, 05:20 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 9,967
Myron,
You may not have any intention...
Myron,
You may not have any intention to return to the coke, but if you're an addict, you will. If you're anything like I was, both your mind, and your body has both been affected by the...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
03-08-2016, 04:53 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 19,143
5 myths about heroin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-heroin/2016/03/04/c5609b0e-d500-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
02-07-2016, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 24,295
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
02-06-2016, 07:07 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 42,502
some step four
We start as usual, with nothing. Out comes a spiral notebook, opened so a blank page appears on both sides with either a four or five column approach, leaving plenty of room to expand upon the...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
01-14-2016, 05:32 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 24,295
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Forum: Humor
12-21-2015, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,320
conversation at check-out
One day while waiting in the check-out line at a local grocery store,
I struck up a conversation with a distinguished lady about marriage.
As it turns out, I was on my third wife, and she...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
11-20-2015, 01:46 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 24,295
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
08-30-2015, 04:44 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 21,301
Choosing to stop your addiction
The following is a review of the book “The Biology of Desire” (Why Addiction is not a Disease)
by Marc Lewis
It appeared on the back page of the Outlook section
The Washington Post
dated...
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Forum: A.A. History With Dick B.
07-27-2015, 05:22 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 29,274
Any student of A.A history can see that some...
Any student of A.A history can see that some force,
or guided hand had to move certain events or pieces
of the puzzle into place, in order for the origination
to develop from a vast alcoholic...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
07-10-2015, 08:09 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 28,891
a surgeon and a stockbroker
Continued from the same source as the above post
At the moment, Bob was upstairs in a stupor, after having brought home a large Mother's Day plant, putting it on the kitchen table, and collapsing...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
07-03-2015, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 28,891
Dr. Tunks and Henrietta Seiberling
From the book Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers
A biography, with recollections of early A.A. In the Midwest
copyright 1980
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., New York, N.Y.
Chapter 6 ...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
05-17-2015, 03:29 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 28,891
Bill W. and Father Ed
From the book 'Pass It On'
The story of Bill Wilson
and how the A.A. Message reached the world
p. 241-243
For Bill, these were tantalizing days; his hopes would be raised, only to be...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
04-18-2015, 07:05 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
eye of the storm
After what seemed an eternity of silence, the phone finally rang.
It startled me. The last few days spent licking my artificial wounds by
a point about an unorthodox welding skill was in...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
03-30-2015, 05:05 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 28,891
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
03-22-2015, 08:25 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 28,891
saturday evening post article
The Jack Alexander Article
(From the March 1, 1941 issue of The Saturday Evening Post)
Alcoholics Anonymous
THREE MEN sat around the bed of an alcoholic patient in the psychopathic ward of...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
03-15-2015, 12:05 PM
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Replies: 126
Views: 47,975
your share
Yesterday after a meeting in which I felt I may have overshared,
fell on the sword, or was quite hard on myself in what I had shared,
I couldn't help but hurt a little inside, and sense a certain...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
03-15-2015, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
down the staircase
There was a full moon the night I stood at the bottom of my
parents driveway on the side of the road. I'll never forget,
looking up into the night sky at this very large full moon,
blaming it,...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
03-07-2015, 06:10 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 28,891
7th Tradition story
News and Notes from the General Service Office of A.A.
Vol. 61, No. 1/ Spring 2015
The Seventh Tradition Corner
“In 2006, my job took me to Nagoya, Japan for a three month period. At that...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
02-21-2015, 07:34 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
Feem and scheme
"Try smiling at the joy of your confusion."
"I love to give an opinion on experiences I've never had."
"If you don't care, I can't care...,
If you do care, I have to care."
"Your past is...
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Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc
02-06-2015, 04:51 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 3,228
Venus
It was rain
On a coast, when
Sleep lost unfeigned a wind produced host
Brought the same wrought storm blown
Brazenly west. In deep land eschewed sand
Such lone lean anew, most thoughts known...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
02-06-2015, 04:46 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
picking the pickle
And, it is now that I realize that this is not some sort of story where a guy finds A.A. at the end, and all of the characters live happily ever after. It is more like a conviction. A confession. ...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
01-24-2015, 11:40 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 28,891
Grace
Friends don't let friends fly without a meeting
From Pulteny, New York
In the early 1990s, I was treating a woman in an alcoholism outpatient group.
"Grace" was a flight attendant with a major...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
01-17-2015, 12:17 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 28,891
The Sober Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leQKGHt8hz0&spfreload=10
A good spirituality achieves two huge things simultaneously: It keeps God absolutely free, and not bound by any of our formulas, and it...
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Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum
11-27-2014, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 24,467
you are not crazy
I don't know about the rest of you, but holidays are a time when I'm around people that I'm usually not around. In this mix of people that ordinarily do not mix, it is imperative that I practice as...
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Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc
11-20-2014, 06:09 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 5,918
The Night That Dixie Died
Long beyond what's better since; between a dream and what's real.
Before what was saved was what was spent, and guilt came prior to appeal.
Before she drank and swam with rum and coke engulfed in...
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Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc
11-14-2014, 02:00 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 5,750
Untitled
An alpha male cemented glue ...
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Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum
11-14-2014, 01:51 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 24,467
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Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc
11-08-2014, 07:24 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 8,018
sign found hanging in an A.A. clubhouse
God in His wisdom selected this group of men and women to be purveyors of
His goodness. In selecting them through whom to bring about this
phenomenon, He went not to the proud, the mighty, the...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
10-24-2014, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
Lost in the keys
My idea of a geographical cure for my ills merely
accelerated my drinking. An anonymous feeling
of no one recognizing me, was intoxicating. I felt
I could do anything I could get by with, and...
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Forum: Newcomers Recovery Help and Support
10-24-2014, 04:25 PM
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Replies: 182
Views: 32,338
abstinence
Your posts are appreciated, and I hope you get well.
There was something that I had received in an e-mail awhile back.
Since it has to do with message, and newcomer, this may be a good place
for...
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Forum: Articles, Facts, Information, News
10-19-2014, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 28,891
two connected A.A. stories
Searcy Whaley (The man who sponsored Bill Wilson’s sponsor: Ebby Thacher)
gave a talk at Danville, IN, a few years ago when he was 90 years old and in a wheelchair.
However, he stood up to give...
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Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc
10-07-2014, 05:51 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 5,918
Whistle Stop
'longside train towns bold
a next circled text chorus
rides; checks abode songs
a lode body lull sings
soprano, of course: farthings.
lone ballad dust must
abhor the chore salad days
baby...
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Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc
10-07-2014, 05:48 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 5,750
dear hope
Dear Hope
Discern heart another chance,
Enchant straight up and see
In return, enamored held demur.
Peer doubly fate, recapture
Please, an inadvertent glance
To glimpse auspicious romance ...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
09-20-2014, 06:24 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
nowhere left to run
A common theme without a doubt, was this feeling that somewhere
over the horizon, happiness awaited, chasing the very thing that
I never wanted to catch. The concept of success was an illusion...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
09-19-2014, 05:50 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 18,970
"To admit that I am wrong about something is...
"To admit that I am wrong about something is difficult,
but it sure does provide a lot of good humility."
The first year without a drink was like going to a circus inside of my own head one day...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
09-19-2014, 05:31 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
fleeting
Man, I'm really glad that post is over.
Its important for me to realize prior to a fifth step, that I may
not cover everything at one time, and that I may not do it
exactly right. I'm not...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
09-05-2014, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
the needle in the thread
What I'm about to tell you has rattled around in my head for a very long time, going into so many different directions as to how exactly to reference the subject matter, and in what way it can be...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
09-03-2014, 09:28 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
an intro for 5: the report card
Although this will be something, it is still uncertain, at least to me, exactly what it might be. I only know that some housecleaning needs to be done on my part, and that if (and we both know what...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
09-03-2014, 04:37 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
In something read recently, I came across a...
In something read recently, I came across a passage that stated the following:
Step four is a spiritual exercise; not an immoral inventory.
This exercise has also reminded me of another...
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Forum: 12 Steps and 12 Traditions
09-03-2014, 05:43 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 33,527
my fifth step
My name is Kevin, and I'm an alcoholic.
This may not be everything, but it'll be most of it.
Some of it isn't pretty, then again whose is?
"We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every...
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Forum: Inspirations, Poetry, Quotes, Thoughts, Etc
09-02-2014, 05:43 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 5,750
Facsimile Thereof
The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum:
Those who know do not say;
those who say do not know.
When the Master entered, they asked him what the words meant.
Said the...
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