Tuesday, September 14
Benefitting Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Everett’s Massage Envy accepts reservations starting Aug. 14 for the “Massage for the Cure.” On Sept. 14, Massage Envy locations nationwide offer one-hour massages, with donated to fight breast cancer. Read more on Everett Herald
Controversy reigns around camp for hard core homeless
A storm of outrage erupted in mid August when Prague city council gave the green light for a camp to be created for the capital’s homeless. Human rights groups said it was a throwback to a darker era, non-profit groups argued the step would simply not work. This week’s Talking Point looks at the arguments stirred up about the homeless camp. Read more on Radio Prague
Tony Blair Drank Like Crazy While Prime Minister [Memoirs]
# memoirs England is merrier than usual today, as ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair ‘s memoir finally hits bookstores! So, is he sorry about Iraq? Did he ever “like-like” the Queen? Many questions remain. Blair makes one thing clear, though: He loved getting drunk. More » Read more on Gawker
www.BrightonHospital.org Empty nester woman whose alcoholism blossomed after her children grew up and left home talks about keeping sober and helping others by attending post rehab aftercare at Brighton Hospital’s alcohol treatment center Alumni Tune-ups, which she attends faithfully. Thebest drug and alcohol addiction help is what Brighton is all about. Brighton Hospital is the second oldest alcohol treatment program in the United States and the first to be licensed in Michigan . A national leader in drug and alcohol treatment and counseling services that began in the early 1950′s. Additionally, we treat addictions to meth, marijuana, pot, crack, heroin, cocaine, speed, oxycontin, coke, prescription pain pills, ecstasy, plus. Our clinics’ rehabilitation treatment programs include: dual diagnosis treatment, teen and young adult, CEO, lawyer and judges recovery, 30-60-90 day recovery programs, and men’s and women’s halfway houses. We have many recovering drug and alcohol testimonials on YouTube. www.brightonhospital.org
12 to 18 year olds get the treatment they need to get off drugs and alcohol to live a better life Video Rating: 3 / 5
Burke remembered for revitalization, preservation
MALVERN — Samuel Burke Jr., a former borough councilman credited for revitalizing the borough’s business district and saving the Paoli Battlefield from the hands of developers, died on Aug. 16 at age 90. Read more on Main Line Suburban Life
Embezzler’s sentence is doubled
Joel Pourier gets 10 years for stealing .38 million from Native American school in Minneapolis. Read more on Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Smoking marijuana helps reduce pain, trial shows
Researchers in Montreal have completed what they say is the first placebo-controlled clinical trial to show that smoking pot really helps to relieve pain. Read more on CTV Winnipeg
New Ordinance Means The Party Is Over
By Angenene Gibbs Herald Assistant Editor Sapulpa City Council approved a new ordinance which prohibits adults from giving low-point beer to minors in a public place and hosting social gatherings where minors drink beer. Read more on Sapulpa Daily Herald
Widespread Fear Freezes Housing Market
Those dismal July housing figures were no blip, and signaled more bad news to come. Read more on New York Times
Too High To Notice The Bubbles?
You must be high if you think there is no better investment out there than lending the U.S. Treasury Read more on Forbes
Modern Love: On the Precipice, Wings Spread
A young woman learns that it’s a risk to love anyone. Read more on New York Times
Graduates show hope and determination
A couple of years ago, Tom Szabo was in detox in Simcoe trying to shake loose from a 25-year drug and alcohol addiction. It wasn’t going well. “I’d basically thrown the towel in,” he said.[...] Read more on The Brantford Expositor
Question by zorro1701e: Alcoholics Anon, Narcotics anon, they all require a belief in higher power. Do they work for non believers?
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics anonymous, they all require a belief in higher power or some kind of god. Do they work for non believers, for atheists or agnostics?
Or are those people destined to fail those programs because the programs are designed for believers?
Best answer:
Answer by Derail It’s true. All these 12 step programs rely on a higher power. They have to. It’s a source in which the recover-er can draw mental strength. For an agnostic person, the mind set would have to be different of course. I don’t mean standing up to proclaim being agnostic. But using those people around you as examples and inspiration to accomplish your recovery. For most folks, it’s better than trying to recover alone.
We of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the reader will be interested in the medical estimate of the plan of recovery described in this book. Convincing testimony must surely come from medical men who have had experience with the sufferings of our members and have witnessed our return to health. A well known doctor, chief physician at a nationally prominent hospital specializing in alcoholic and drug addiction, gave Alcoholics Anonymous this letter: To Whom It May Concern: I have specialized in the treatment of alcoholism for many years. In late 1934 I attended a patient who, though he had been a competent businessman of good earning capacity, was an alcoholic of a type I had come to regard as hopeless. In the course of his third treatment he acquired certain ideas concerning a possible means of recovery. As part of his rehabilitation he commenced to present his conceptions to other alcoholics, impressing upon them that they must do likewise with still others. This has become the basis of a rapidly growing fellowship of these men and their families. This man and over one hundred others appear to have recovered. I personally know scores of cases who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely. These facts appear to be of extreme medical importance; because of the extraordinary possibilities of rapidWe of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the reader will be interested in the medical estimate of the plan of recovery described in this book. Convincing … Video Rating: 2 / 5
LSD’s psychological effects (colloquially called a “trip”) vary greatly from person to person, depending on factors such as previous experiences, state of mind and environment, as well as dose strength. They also vary from one trip to another, and even as time passes during a single trip. An LSD trip can have long term psychoemotional effects; some users cite the LSD experience as causing significant changes in their personality and life perspective. Widely different effects emerge based on what has been called set and setting; the “set” being the general mindset of the user, and the “setting” being the physical and social environment in which the drug’s effects are experienced. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert considered the chemical to be of potentially beneficial application in psychotherapy. If the user is in a hostile or otherwise unsettling environment, or is not mentally prepared for the powerful distortions in perception and thought that the drug causes, effects are more likely to be unpleasant than if he or she is in a comfortable environment and has a relaxed, balanced and open mindset. Some psychological effects may include an experience of radiant colors, objects and surfaces appearing to ripple or “breathe,” colored patterns behind the eyes, a sense of time distorting (time seems to be stretching, repeating itself, changing speed or stopping), crawling geometric patterns overlaying walls and other objects, morphing objects, a sense that one’s thoughts are … Video Rating: 4 / 5
Hill’s DUI bill passes Legislature, headed for governor’s desk
Bill heads to governor, who’s expected to sign it Read more on San Mateo County Times
How New Arsenal Signing Sebastien Squillaci Compares To Other Centre-Backs At The Club
Having already made his big defensive investment of the summer with his £8.5 million outlay on Laurent Koscielny , Arsene Wenger has been more typically creative with his latest reinforcement. Read more on Goal.com
Walking to work…and then Island woman’s time was up
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It was just Sylvie Cameron’s time.How else do you explain this perfectly healthy and totally devoted 48-year-old mother of five walking to catch the bus to work at the same time and exact spot where a… Read more on Staten Island Advance
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