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Addiction: Fruit Flies Create AA Group!

Stanton Peele | Posted 12.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Intoxication, Fruit Flies, Reason, Addiction & Recovery, Health, Free Will, Choices, Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholic, Aa, Alcohol Addiction, Wellness, Habit, Living News

Like humans, fruit flies that get intoxicated on alcohol can become addicted and keep drinking regardless of the consequences. indicate this phenomenon will allow us to better understand how alcoholism works.

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Communicating With An Addict: Hitting The Pause Button

Carole Bennett, MA | Posted 12.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Denial, Recovery, Addiction & Recover, Codependence, Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcoholic, Dependency, Aa, Al-Anon, Withdrawal, Communication, Living News

When you stay neutral, you turn the decision over to the addict; you are empowering them with their own choice, and at the same time empowering yourself with a commitment to neutrality.

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Communicating With An Alcoholic/Addict -- Part 2

Carole Bennett, MA | Posted 12.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Denial, Alanon, Recovery, 12 Steps, Relationships, Health, Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcoholic, Aa, Addiction & Recovery, Acohol, Family, Living News

Whether your loved one is in their addiction or new to recovery, sometimes a well meaning, simple discussion can turn futile. Too often you can't help but get sucked into a conversation that turns heated.

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Happy Thanksgiving! This Year It Is No Longer Humiliating To Be Explaining Your Unemployment Around the Thanksgiving Table!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 11.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Umeployment, Friends, Family, Playgirl, Christmas, Sarah Palin, Tlc, Relatives, Bulletproof Your Job, Kwanzaa, Levi Johnston, Disney, Harpercollins, Stephen Viscusi, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Abc, Fired, Headhunter From Hell, Holidays, Thanksgiving, The View, Aa, Divorce, Death, Spouse, Hanukkah, Going Rouge, Jon Gosselin, Health Issues, Barbara Walters, Job, Starbucks, Oprah, Chemistry, Good Morning America, Unemployed, Search Engines, Americas Workplace Guru, The Ladder, Monster.com, Media News

Losing your job is dreadful, no matter what the reason. In this journalist's mind, it is still better than health issues, divorce, or death -- but t...

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AA: The Magic Of Bill Wilson

Jeff Witzeman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Recovery, Depression, 12 Steps, Twelve Steps, Ego, Addiction, Bill Wilson, Psychology, Aa, Withdrawal, Addiction & Recovery, Carl Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, Faith, Spirituality, Living News

Many know Bill Wilson as the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, but few realize his brilliance as it relates to healing the human condition, alcoholic or not.

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Gunmen Open Fire On AA Meeting In Mexico, Killing 1

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Trade, Chihuahua City, Cartels, Illegal Drugs, Mexico Violence, Mexico, Aa, Sinaloa, Drugs, Chihuahua, Esparza, Border, Ciudad Juarez, Alcoholics Anonymous, Rehabilitation Clinics, Juarez, Drug Rehab, Home News

MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wo...

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Smell Of Smoke Forces American Airlines Flight To Make Emergency Landing

AP | Posted 08.25.2009 | Home

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BOSTON — An American Airlines flight bound for San Juan, Puerto Rico, has returned to Boston for an emergency landing about an hour after takeof...

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Fighting My Own Drug War: An Excerpt From What's Left of Us

Richard Farrell | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Excerpt, Entertainment, Memoirs, Author, Books, Drugs, War on Drugs, Heroin, Aa, Rehab, God, Richard Farrell, Memoir, Living, Narcotics, Cocaine, Living News

Heroin is not a cold-shake like cocaine. The impurities used to cut heroin need to be cooked off in boiling water before you shoot it intravenously.

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Smart Cars, Terrorism, and Hoping for Audacity

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whole Foods, Insanity, James Von Brunn, The Audacity of Hope, Honda Insight, Terrorism, Aa, Real Time, Dr. George Tiller, White Supremacist, Change, Smart Car, Hoping for Audacity, Gas Mileage, Mitsubishi Galant, Bill Maher, Politics News

The only option. Change. Radical, untried, brand new ideas implemented to change the way things have been done around here for decades. When are we going to get it? What's it going to take?

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Alcoa Posts First Quarter Loss, Second In A Row

AP | DANIEL LOVERING | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

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PITTSBURGH — In a bleak start to the earnings season, Alcoa Inc. reported a quarterly loss of $497 million, as the stumbling global economy cont...

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Alcoa First Quarter Loss Expected, Shares Fall

Reuters | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Alcoa Inc (AA.N) shares fell on Tuesday, hours before the aluminum producer was scheduled to report what was expected to be a se...

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The Woe is I Economy

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.06.2009 | Living

Read More: President Obama, Insanity, Economy, Oprah, Aa, Different, Paul Krugman, Media, Living News

The AA definition of insanity is doing the same thing in the same way over and over again and expecting a different result. Is that what we're doing with the economy? To some extent, yes, I think we are.

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Battling Addiction: Are 12 Steps Too Many?

TIME | John Cloud Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009 | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Alcoholics Anonymous, Addiction, 12 Steps, Twelve Steps, Aa, Rehab, Addiction & Recovery, Living News

January is a big month for winter sports and post-Christmas sales. It's also -- as people who treat substance abuse know -- a big month for drinkers w...

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Progressives War over Drug Czar

Stanton Peele | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama's Cabinet, Ramstad, Health, Ramstad Drug Czar, Addiction, Aa, Alcoholics Anonymous, Addiction as Disease, Drug Czar, Twelve Steps Program, Drug Policy Reform, Politics News

The idea of treating substance abusers as disease sufferers is tremendously appealing. But, like other disagreements steeped in divergent bedrock values, there's no getting around this one.

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Exclusive: New York Times Reporter Benoit Denizet-Lewis Talks Addiction, Recovery, Drug Policy, Obama and America Anonymous

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 02.02.2009 | Media

Read More: America Anonymous, Recovery, Twelve Steps, Sex Addiction, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Alcoholism, Addiction, New York Times, Addict, Aa, Drug Policy, Alcoholics Anonymous, Barack Obama, Health, Media News

In his new book American Anonymous, Denizet-Lewis gets into the heart of addictions across the country, roads to recovery, detailing the heights of abuse, including health problems, and lost jobs and families.

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Martin Sheen Talks About Getting Son Charlie Clean

AP | Posted 06.04.2008 | Entertainment

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LOS ANGELES — Martin Sheen became "fanatic" when his son Charlie was using drugs. "When a life is at stake and it's your child, you become fear...

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American Airlines To Charge For First Checked Bag

AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Never mind the free lunch. Almost nothing is complimentary on airlines anymore, not even what many passengers consider a simple neces...

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Fattening Up Fashion Models

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living

Is legislation the answer to ending anorexia in the fashion world? Europe has begun to recoil from an industry that sees "hunger to succeed" as literal.

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American Returns All MD-80s to Service

AP | TERRY WALLACE | Posted 04.20.2008 | Business

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DALLAS — American Airlines on Saturday received clearance from federal aviation officials to return all of its 300 grounded jets to service, an ...

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