Coffee Connection offers women in recovery a place to start
… 'Perfect, you're even more qualified,'” says the 57-year-old executive director of the nonprofit coffee shop, with locations on South Avenue, East Main Street (known as The Coffee Connection at the Greenhouse Cafe), and by early 2014, at the corner …
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4 Tools You May Not Be Using That Could Help Prevent Drug Relapse
watch for relapse triggers People in early addiction recovery are like ticking time bombs – relapse is often just one stressor away. For many, the holiday season is that stressor. Family conflict erupts. Reality falls short of their expectations …
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Know Your Lore: Lore summed up part 2 – The Burning Crusade
The night elf had promised Kael'thas a means to deal with the addiction to magic that imperiled his people since the destruction of the Sunwell and most of his people along with it, and as time passed and Illidan stewed in his delusions the uncrowned …
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Inside the doors of Friendship House, Nashville's fabled 202, helping those in …
A tattoo-sleeved man slinks into the row of battered theater-style seats pushed against the wall. Turn to page 100 of Twelve Steps and … "Society did not accept this disease … it was very shame-based," explains Susan B., a former 202 board member …
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The many faces of Rock Bay Landing: shelter is refuge for homeless
About 7 p.m. on a typical night in the Rock Bay Landing shelter, a man with a tattoo under his right eye rolls a marijuana cigarette while a petite woman, sitting with her hands clasped over her knees, stares into the middle of the room with a blank …
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ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation
Aaron Key wasn't sure he wanted a tattoo on his neck. Especially one of a giant squid … And agents in Albuquerque, N.M., gave a brain-damaged drug addict with little knowledge of weapons a "tutorial" on machine guns, hoping he could find them one …
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Addiction treatment center director offers advice for helping addicts
Jim Steinhagen, executive director of addiction treatment center Hazelden in Plymouth, offered advice: “Listen to the voice in your head. Trust your intuition.” Telltale signs of drug abuse include changes in personality, appearance, friends and school …
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Desert Star Addiction Recovery Center looks at eating disorders
The center offers outpatient treatment programs for people who are affected by alcohol, drugs, gambling or sex addictions. The programs focus on helping people with their substance addiction as well as their mental health issues such as trauma, loss …
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Spirituality and addiction recovery can be an emotional topic in some circles. Part of the dictionary definition for spiritual is insubstantial. There was a time in my life when I would have agreed with that part of the definition. Someone would say the word spirituality and I would hear God.

Since my concept of God was distorted I had no use for spirituality. When I first attended 12 step meetings almost thirty years ago members spoke of the spiritual part of the fellowship; which led me to believe there was a separate part that dealt with all thing spiritual. Well that was fine with me; I had enough to do staying totally abstinent. Anyone that stays in recovery can tell you, your thinking starts to change.

You become more accepting of ideas that just months earlier you would have argued against. Spirituality came to be the quality of the relationships that were important to me. It was a few years still before I understood I was a spiritual being and would grow in a spiritually positive of negative direction. When the positive growth outweighed the negative I was able to accept God as my higher power.

Years earlier when I attended a drug rehab center I fought robustly against esoterically flavored concepts. Today I accept that inside of me there exists a spiritual life. This life, once awakened overwhelms life itself and overtakes what life had been. This awareness is not so much something we possess but a quality of our being that defies explanation. It is with this truth that I move forward in my recovery. When I stumble I have only to look with-in, not to myself but that which exists in my being.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013: Student discipline, addiction treatment center
I am writing in support of the small zoning change that will allow McLean Hospital to operate a recovery center for about a dozen clients at the Fox Hill property in Camden. I respectfully ask that the Camden Planning Board recommend this change and …
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Center to help female addicts
HUNTINGTON — Addiction recovery is a battle. Always. But it can be an even more savage one for mothers. Some recovery programs require mothers to part from their children for months at a time. Often, women won't even consider that as an option. "Women …
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Katy Perry Reveals 3 Month Teetotal Detox After Russell Brand Split, Calls The …
"I've never done anything, so that was hard to play this role [of a heroin addict]. I've never had a drink in my life. I'm sober. I'm like, 'Okay, this is new to me.' Normally as as actor, you have things to pull from. I was like, 'I don't know what it …
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Feds Paid a Teen to Get a Neck Tattoo of a Giant Squid Smoking a Joint
And agents in Albuquerque, N.M., gave a brain-damaged drug addict with little knowledge of weapons a "tutorial" on machine guns, hoping he could find them one. ? Agents in several … set up gun and drug deals. The machine gun has not been recovered.".
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