Are you looking for information regarding Alcohol treatment medications? We’ve created a section devoted to providing information on the different alcoholism medications available. There are several different options and they offer different forms of treatment. Although the section is still being developed there is valuable information regarding these medications.
Here’s the link to our new Alcoholism Medication page: Alcoholism Medication
Information about: Revia, Depate, Ropren and Antabuse
How do I find an AA meeting? If you feel that you have a drinking problem or your friends and family have asked you to get treatment you probably should and there is no shame in that. In fact you should be proud. However, where do you begin? There are a lot of alcohol treatment services available. Alcoholics Anonymous is a great place to start and has a very popular 12 step program.
If you want to find an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting simply follow the link below and follow the instructions.
Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting Finder
Question: How to find an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Answer: http://alcoholics-anonymous.org/en_find_meeting.cfm?PageID=29
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
Here is the list of the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: A non profit organization that supports and helps alcoholics recover from alcoholism using it’s 12 step program.
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization is a wonderful non-profit organization dedicated to helping children of Alcoholics break the cycle of alcoholism. ACA WSO provides support group meetings, online alcoholism support forums, newsletters, online alcoholism educational articles and is a worldwide organization.
ACA WSO mission statement: “This corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for Charitable purposes. The specific purpose for which this corporation is organized is to serve the Fellowship of Adult Children of Alcoholics. It is in effect an agency created and now designated by that Fellowship to maintain services for those seeking, through Adult Children of Alcoholics, the means for arresting the emotional disease of family alcoholism. This is done by sharing information and experiences with one another and by applying to their own lives, in whole or in part, the Twelve Steps which constitute the recovery program upon which Alcoholics Anonymous is founded.”
ACA WSO has adapted the traditional alcoholics anonymous 12 step program to fit the needs of children of alcoholics. Children of Alcoholics are often predisposed genetically, socially or emotionally to have alcohol or other substance abuse problems. They have witnessed and lived through situations that only they and their peers can understand. This 12 step program and anonymous support group helps them break the cycle of alcoholism and cope with life as the child of an alcoholic.
Adult Children of Alcoholics is a non-profit organization which holds support meetings around the world for children of alcoholics and other dysfunctional families. Although the ACA is free to its members they do need funds to operate. They accept donations and can use your help.
ACA Meeting Locator:
http://allone.com/12/aca/
Questions or Help:
http://www.adultchildren.org/Contact.s
Recovery Nation: Addiction Recovery Talk Radio
Recovery Nation is a talk radio show about recovering from Alcohol addiction and other addictions. The show is hosted by John Tomkinson a recovering addict and entrepreneur. The show covers all different forms of addiction including sex, drugs and alcohol addictions. Recovery Nation also has open mic night where others struggling with addiction can call and share their stories and get advice.
The show also has nights dedicated to the legal issues that addicts often encounter, medical issues of addicts or recovering addicts and substance abuse treatment options.
Host’s Bio: John Tomkinson (JT), creator and host, is a former marketing and advertising entrepreneur and veteran radio announcer. He also attended the School of Broadcasting at UCLA. J.T. is a recovering alcoholic and addict. Tomkinson’s personal history includes four previous “rehab” stays, but he just could not stay sober. It was only after losing everything and living out of his car that he finally took to heart the message of hope and solution he had heard in rehab and in twelve step programs. His life mission is to stay sober, while bringing the message of hope for a better life to the masses through the most accessible medium – radio, specifically talk radio. “There is nothing more powerful as one addict helping another”.
Recovery Nation Showtimes:
1230 WBZT:Monday Through Saturday 9am to 12 noon
WNN the health and wealth network: Saturdays from 5pm to 7pm on.
If you would like to call in live the phone numbers are below.
1230 WBZT
CALL IN LIVE: (800) 889-0267
WNN the health and wealth network operated by CNN
CALL IN LIVE: (888) 565-1470
Special: During the month of February Recovery Nation will be running a drive to raise money to send people with substance abuse problems to treatment facilities.
Website: www.recoverynationlive.com
St Mary’s Amina Center in England is now adding substance abuse and addiction treatment to their services. They will be exclusively treating health care professionals who have alcohol and drug addiction problems.
England is already suffering from a shortage of Health Care professionals and cannot afford to lose 10% of its workforce. There is a general attitude of shame to have a substance addiction within the health care community which tends to make it harder to treat. However, based on studies health care professionals seem to respond more positively when provided treatment by fellow professionals.
“The program is an out-patient, week-day program, based upon individual need. A patient could be enrolled in the program for as little as two weeks and as long as eight weeks, with an average stay of four to six weeks. The center can treat four to 10 patients at a time. Confidentiality is protected and the center has a separate access from the main hospital.”
This will be a great program to help health care professionals with addiction problems in England.
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