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Recovery Chatrooms 


Clean And Sober Live
Helping alcoholics and drug addicts come together. Preview their site here:

New Recovery Website Offering Free Voice, Video, and Text Chatrooms


quipping post: Drinking Rules and Making Amends 


Universal Boozing Rules
Whether your drinking career is long over or you're still conducting your own alcohol research, you've probably experienced these:

The bar clock moves twice as fast from midnight to last call.

If there is ever any confusion, the fuller beer is yours.

Never complain about the quality or brand of a free drink.

If you offer to buy a woman a drink and she accepts, she still might not like you.

For every drink, there is a five percent better chance you will get in a fight. There is also a three percent better chance you will lose the fight.

Complete List of Boozing Rules


Unofficial Bonus Tip for Step 9
AA's Step 9: "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible..."

Personalize apologies with a cake or giant cookie, as shown above!

quick links: Media, Alchemy, Pinball, and Drugs 


Addiction in Popular Media
Click the graphics for addiction magazine articles, television shows, and videos:




Addiction Alchemy
A non-linear recovery approach based on the medicine wheel model:

Addiction and Treatment Info, Recovery Tools, Articles, and More


Spliff Pinball
The effects of excessive pot-smoking:

Play This Free Interactive Game Online

Talk to Frank
You can click on drugs from A to Z:

Excellent UK Drug Information Site


Rate Your Drinking
Use this alcohol self-assessment to better understand your drinking habits. This assessment can't diagnose you with an alcohol use or abuse problem, but it can help you evaluate your drinking and understand whether you might benefit from treatment:

Mayo Clinic Alcohol Use Self-Assessment

Drug Screening

Free & Confidential

SoberStock Recovery Music Festival 


SoberStock
An Annual event of recovery including AA speakers, bands, food, and fun:

Attend or Volunteer at SoberStock for 3 Days of Live Music and Recovery


Addiction, Genetics, and Social Therapy Stuff 


The New Science of Addiction
"Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by changes in the brain which result in a compulsive desire to use a drug. A combination of many factors including genetics, environment and behavior influence a person's addiction risk, making it an incredibly complicated disease. The new science of addiction considers all of these factors - from biology to family - to unravel the complexities of the addicted brain." See some good science resources below:

Mouse Party

Interactive Flash Presentation on Drugs and the Brain


Genetic Science Learning Center

University of Utah Drug Information and Flash Presentations



Social Therapy Blog

Social Work Blog on Mental Health, Relationships, and other Fun Stuff


quota: The Fine Line of Addiction 


Walking the Fine Line between Self-Control and Self-Abuse

"I got drunk for the first time when I was eleven. I was new at my synagogue, and some of the girls who took me in snatched some bottles of wine from the kitchen and we gorged on them beneath the flickering beauty lights in the women’s restroom.

"By thirteen I drank whenever possible. Wine at dinner, stealing gulps of vodka from the freezer, whiskey from the cupboard, beer from my friend's older brothers...

"Never had I given my love of alcohol the pleasure of being called an 'addiction.' It was something I liked to do, I could control it, I never threw up, and my actions were more or less intelligent...

"There were periods where it just wasn’t available, and I survived alright, wanted it, but I dealt. When it became routine again was when it got bad. Morning cap, night cap, water bottle in my purse. It was the cold of winter I was wanting to evade, not life, glug glug glug..."

Quotes from Bekka's 'Walking the Fine Line between Self-Control and Self-Abuse'


quipping post: Political Correctness and Booze Jokes 


Politically correct ways to say someone drinks too much:

People do not get DRUNK or TIPSY; they get CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED.

People do not get FALLING-DOWN DRUNK; they become ACCIDENTALLY HORIZONTAL.

A man does not have a BEER GUT; he has developed a LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY.


Here's How You Can Tell That Your Cat Is Doing Drugs



Booze and Temperance Joke
A minister was completing a Temperance sermon. With great emphasis he said, "If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river." With even greater emphasis he said, "And if I had all the wine in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river." And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he said, "And if I had all the whiskey in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river." Sermon complete, he sat down. The song leader stood very cautiously and announced with a smile, nearly laughing, "For our closing song, let us sing Hymn 365, "Shall We Gather at the River."

The Drunk Confession Joke - The Drunk And Biker Joke

Things That Are Difficult To Say When Drunk

Beer Warning Label - Dangerous Drug Warning


See the Newest E-mail Jokes, Pictures, and Archives


quick links: Recovery, Peace, and Shiny People 


Helping to Provide Addiction Treatment in Developing Countries


Outer Peace - The Imagine Peace Project
See the peace tower, read about the project, send a peace message:

ImaginePeace.com


Inner Peace - The Complete Serenity Prayer
View the presentation, read the history, free screensaver and e-cards:

The-Serenity-Prayer.com


The Recovery Podcast
Download podcasts about views and experiences in addiction recovery:

TheRecoveryPodcast.com


ASAM - American Society of Addiction Medicine

Happy Shiny People Improve Addiction Treatment



Happy Shiny and Professional Addiction Treatment People



Happy Shiny and Professional and Gay Addiction Treatment People


How Addicted To Coffee Are You?

Take the Short Quiz and Find Out



How Addicted to Blogging Are You?



Addicted to Apple?


quirky stuff: Drugs, Celebrities, and LSD Blotter Art 


History of Drugs 450 BC - 2006 AD

From joint-smoking jazzbos to heroin-injecting grungers, the relationship between drugs and rock has, for good or ill, been one of music’s most important. A chronological catalogue of just how long and strange this particular trip has been.

History of Drugs 450 BC - 2006 AD



The 50 Craziest Pop Stars Ever

You don't have to be crazy to be a rock star. But let's just say the world would be a far less colorful place without these 50 drug-addled, tantrum-throwing, Thorazine-gulping and/or just plain mad music maestros.

The 50 Craziest Pop Stars Ever



10 Wasted Celebrities on Video


Crackheads
It's hard sometimes. You can't bring crackheads home, or your parents (no matter how old) will yell at you. You can't bring them to work, or you risk losing your job. And you can't really hang out with them, or you risk being arrested. But now we've discovered Crackheads (the capital "C" is very important here), a delicious way to give yourself a nice, legal buzz with everyone's favorite drug: Caffeine!

White and Dark Cocolate Covered Espresso Beans



Caffeinated Sunflower Seeds



Straws that Mix Your Drink



LSD Blotter Art


Surviving Rehab 


Helpful Hints to Survive Rehab
You’ll never find the following information in a rehabilitation facility brochure. These tips are not meant to deter one from treatment, but to give you a clearer sense going in, so that humor can be employed when common sense fails...

• Tread lightly. Nothing is worse than the despair of addiction, jail, losing your children or your life. Remember, you are not supposed to be having fun, but getting well.

• Don’t judge a book by its cover. Pearls of wisdom will fall from the mouths of those needing the most dental work.

• Don’t forget your blankie. You’ll need it. Bring two in case someone takes one.

All the Rehab Survival Hints Here

The Survival Guide to Rehab Blog

Avoiding Rehab 



"Rehab" by Amy Winehouse


"They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, 'no, no, no'
Yes, I been black but when I come back you'll know, know, know
I ain’t got the time, and if my daddy thinks I’m fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab, I won’t go, go, go..."

Get Full Rehab Song Lyrics Here

Amy Winehouse Official Website



Rehab Music Video
Watch the music video for this song about not wanting to go to rehab:

Finding Rehab 


Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers
If you think you might need to go to rehab, you probably do:



Find Rehab and Treatment Centers in the US


Rehab in US, Canada, Caribbean, UK


Help for Alcoholics and Addicts in Early Recovery


Meet Tom Kramer 



Who is Tom Kramer?...
That's what Tom Kramer intends to find out! In this new docu-comedy, a recovering alcoholic suffering from an identity crisis goes on a mission to find himself while maintaining his sobriety. Click on Tom to go to the TV show home page and watch the pilot episode, or check out the clip below...


----Meet Tom Kramer

Tom Kramer: "I'm an Alcoholic"
Click the pic to watch this public service announcement spoof:



AA Public Service Announcements 


Humor is the best medicine... and the above clip is good for a laugh, but if you or someone you know is still suffering from alcoholism there's nothing funny about that. For info about getting free help watch the AA public service announcements online here:

Click for the Alcoholics Anonymous Video and Audio PSAs Page


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