“Chalk Talk on Alcohol” by Father Joseph C. Martin of Father Martin’s Ashley

“Chalk Talk on Alcohol” by Father Joseph C. Martin of Father Martin’s Ashley – Chalk Talk on Alcohol is a three part discussion of the nations’ number one public health problem, alcoholism. Father Martin discusses the things we drink, why we drink them and what happens when someone has the disease of alcoholism. Alcohol is a sedative drug and is addictive. Alcoholism is an addiction to that drug for which there is effective treatment.

Vivitrol is the new hope for solving opiate addiction

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Medication-assisted treatment says Elinor McCance-Katz, medical director for the state of California's Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, is considered the standard in treating addiction. “Opiate addiction is very, very difficult to treat,” she says.
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No God is no problem for LifeRing

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He talks about the support of his wife, Erin, of the comfort he found in music and art therapy, and of pulling himself out of alcohol addiction through his own self-will. "It was self-reliance," he says. "I had to want it. It was self-help." That self …
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