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  • California Liquor Law Bill Sparks Controversy In California, current law sets alcohol sales into a three tier format. Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers are all sepa…
  • Hand Sanitizers and Alcohol Abuse In what will hopefully turn out to be a non-trendy trend, news reports of teens extracting alcohol from hand sanitizers have …
  • Tragic Death Blamed on Marijuana that Wasn't There The headline says, ”Father Killed in Marijuana Child Removal Incident”. The problem, both for police and the public, is t…
  • Heroin Can Be Anywhere It’s not common to hear much about heroin on the news anymore. Sure, when there is a major bust, that’s newsworthy, but a…
  • Alcopops in the News If the term is unfamiliar, you haven’t been keeping up with the controversy. An “alcopop” is an alcoholic beverage that…

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  • AA and Religion There’s sometimes a link drawn between AA and Christianity. Historically this is accurate, and early writings do assume the…
  • 12 Step Sponsorship Sponsorship in 12 step programs is a serious business. Essentially, it’s about mentoring someone, but there is much more th…
  • Why Is Addiction a Disease? Addiction is a disease in a similar way to type 2 diabetes is a disease. To make the analogy, we should look at type 2, or ad…
  • 12 Step Recovery Jokes We all need a little break from the seriousness of recovery. Humor can be good medicine. Watch out though, some of these bord…
  • Dual Recovery There are two meanings for the phrase “dual recovery.” The first is someone who is addicted to more than one (unrelated) …
 

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  • Cocaine Vaccine Raises some Interesting Questions Science marches on... There was report out in January about a vaccine trial in mice. The vaccine created antibodies to cocai…
  • Looking at Portugal There's been an experiment going on in Portugal for nearly a decade that is worth paying attention to. In the late 1990's…
  • Be Thankful There's a fight on for funding at all levels of government. Human services, the umbrella that addiction treatment falls under…

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