Tim’s Story…
DRA has offered me what I had lost or been unable to find in my sobriety. It offers me believable hope and steps to apply to both my chemical dependency and my psychiatric illnesses. It also offers me a way to heal the emotional and psychic damage that I experienced as a result of [...]

Twelve Steps of Emotions Anonymous

We admitted we were powerless over our emotions - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Made a [...]

Relapse, Slips and Busts Bill
W. a co-founder of
Alcoholics Anonymous
answers questions about
alcoholism in a discussion in
1960. Question; What
about slips in general? You
must have witnessed a lot
of them. Bill W.: The
subject of slips is a very
large one. It takes in a lot
of territory. Slips can often
be charged to rebellion and
some of us surely are more
rebellious than others. Slips
can be charged to
carelessness, to
complacency. Many of us
fail to ride out such periods
sober. Slips are due to the
illusion that one can be
“cured” of alcoholism.
Things go fine for two or
three

Recovery in Marijuana Anonymous
The practice of rigorous honesty, of opening our hearts and minds, and the willingness to go to any lengths to have a spiritual awakening are essential to our recovery.
Our old ideas and ways of life no longer work for us. Our suffering shows us that we need to let go absolutely. We [...]

Methadone Anonymous Preamble
We, of Methadone Anonymous, believe that methadone is a therapeutic tool of recovery that may or may not be discontinued in time, dependent upon the needs of the individual.
We believe that continued abstinence from opiates and other chemicals, including alcohol, is the foremost goal of recovery. It is the purpose of this fellowship [...]

The Abstinent Approach to Healthy Wine Consumption In the Sober Kitchen
by Recovering Chef Liz Scott
No doubt since you put down that last drink, you have noticed that researchers are continually discovering good and healthy things about drinking, particularly red wine. Most recently, a compound called resveratrol, which is present in grape skins [...]

Top 50 Reasons Why Women Have Sex
When drinking or drugging one has sex, uses sex and does sex for various OK or not so OK reasons.
Recovery from alcoholism/addiction increases sexuality and desire.
This list can help you decide why you had sex, and why you may have sex in the future. A key question is ‘Will [...]

Alcohol Energy Drinks and Youth
Big Alcohol’s Cross-over Brands Creating Confusion, Health Risks 
Alcohol companies are finding increasingly dangerous ways to hook the nation’s youth and fuel the underage drinking epidemic. That is the conclusion of a new report, Alcohol, Energy Drinks, and Youth: A Dangerous Mix, released by Marin Institute at the Underage Drinking Enforcement Training [...]

Cocaine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from their addiction.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using cocaine and all other mind-altering substances. There are no dues or [...]

Personal Stories of
Recovery Treatment and
Recovery: Personal Profiles
When Marjorie Hawkins
entered treatment for
alcohol and drug abuse in
1985, she seemed a
hopeless case.
Unemployed, homeless,
and addicted to alcohol and
heroin, Hawkins found
herself at Carrick Hall, a
Washington, D.C.
treatment center, where
she began, almost literally,
to see the light. “I went
in,” Hawkins recalls today,
“and after the first week, I
realized I could hear what
they were saying. The fog
had lifted. I learned that
my biggest problem was my
addiction, that if I didn’;t
drink and do drugs every
day, I could be