Tag: alcoholism
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August 05, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
Do you think that those born in an alcoholic family will also become alcoholics themselves?
Or do you think that seeing their alcoholic family everyday will keep them from drinking?
Do you think that . . .
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May 14, 2007 05:15 PM EDT --
Every time I saw the title, “Times my mother stood up for me” I cringed. This has been brewing in my head for a whole month now. I decided to wait until after Mother’s Day, . . .
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January 07, 2009 08:41 PM EST --
My mother called me this morning and stated that she had bad news. Her voice sounded wierd and immediately, my heart started racing. She informed me that my cousin, Kristen, had passed away. . . .
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June 20, 2009 10:06 PM EDT --
There are a lot of things I don’t get when it comes to men. Flatulence as a fount of humor comes quickly to mind. Corvettes. Bodacious Ta-Ta’s...
But the biggest cultural . . .
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April 11, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
Parched; she tilts the flask to his chapped lips
Feverish; she douses him with cool moisture
Dry; she anoints him with soothing balm
Edgy; she whittles his heart with a whisper
Drunk; . . .
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August 04, 2007 11:06 PM EDT --
This is a revision of my Roots essay.
I wasted a lot of time resenting my father for who he wasn’t, before coming to appreciate all the things I learned from him. Living with an alcoholic . . .
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September 21, 2007 09:30 AM EDT --
What's it like when it catches up with you?
Does the addiction get stronger,
While your mind get weaker?
What's it like when it catches up with you?
Will you be able to go on,
Will you feel the . . .
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May 29, 2009 12:09 AM EDT --
Reasons
There are many reasons to write a book and even more for reading one, but once the author has set out to inform, excite or entertain, they had darned well better deliver. Tracy Fabre’s . . .
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September 15, 2006 11:38 PM EDT --
First, reflect on the lyrics to this Johnny Cash song, "Drive On:"
I got a friend named Whiskey Sam
He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam
He said is my country just a little . . .
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February 15, 2007 01:36 AM EST --
I was married once to a man who was addicted to alcohol and drugs. Because of his addictions, he developed a number of health problems early.
It doesn’t take long to recognize when an addicted . . .
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January 24, 2009 06:54 PM EST --
Defying Diagnosis
I brought you home and
In an unwashed window hung you
By the thinnest thread
A shattered prism, heavy in the hand.
Squinting I see laced
Within your limpid clarity
Translucent . . .
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May 27, 2009 10:39 PM EDT --
Hi everybody
I'm sorry I haven't been on here much. My mother in law passed away on Thursday, May 21. Brad's brother and stepfather were there with her. I'll write a better article . . .
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October 14, 2006 12:14 AM EDT --
What do you think about people in the limelight like Gibson, Foley and Ney that has skeptics saying people are using Alcoholism to justify mal behavior? It's sad I see everywhere the crucification . . .
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October 09, 2007 06:24 PM EDT --
Now if people wouldn't drink in the first place, we wouldn't need this!
Interesting article, though.
Pill helps alcoholics taper off drinking
By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press . . .
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January 28, 2007 12:53 AM EST --
This is a very personal story that I am about to share and one that is close to my heart. Everyday I hear about children who are abducted and sexually or physically abused. Some . . .
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August 12, 2007 12:05 AM EDT --
Ok, so today is that famous first-day-of-the-rest-of-my-life. Today I started once again to search for help about living with an alcoholic. I have made random stabs at this over . . .
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April 27, 2008 08:06 PM EDT --
I am so sad today. My next door neighbor Pete, hung himself in the stairway of his home early this morning with a belt on the railing of the stairs.
Yesterday, upon returning from my . . .
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June 19, 2009 09:33 AM EDT --
MPR's Midmorning hosted an on air show about hidden alcoholism that is firmly at the top of our most e-mailed stories:
A new book focuses on the people who are alcoholics but manage to keep their . . .
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February 26, 2006 07:39 PM EST --
Off To The Asylum…Part 1
At seven every morning Wayne showed up at the back door of his bar to go in for his morning drink. A group of men accompanied him in and were as regular as . . .
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May 26, 2006 12:56 PM EDT --
Operation Santa Claus
My family has always lived in the country. We grew up out in the sticks, spitting tobacco, drinking beer, hunting and fishing, and driving four wheel trucks. We get along with . . .
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