People are drinking alcohol-based mouthwash because it’s now cheaper than regular alcoholic drinks in some parts of Australia.
Health workers have warned that they risk serious consequences, even death
Street cleaners lately have been stumbling on scores of empty bottles of a popular mouthwash, which is nearly 30 per cent pure alcohol.
And in the space of a [...]

The two most common kinds of 12-Step meetings are:
OPEN MEETINGS: As the term suggests, meetings of this type are open to members and their families and to anyone interested in solving a personal problem or helping someone else to solve such a problem.
Most open meetings follow a more or less set pattern, although distinctive variations [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Man’;s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl On
Choosing One’;s Attitude
“Everything can be taken
from a man but …the last
of the human freedoms - to
choose one’;s attitude in
any given set of
circumstances, to choose
one’;s own way.” p.104
“There is also purpose in
life which is almost barren
of both creation and
enjoyment and which
admits of but one
possibility of high moral
behavior: namely, in man’;s
attitude to his existence,
an existence restricted by
external forces.” p.106 On
Committing to Values and
Goals
“Logotherapy…considers
man as a being whose main
concern consists in fulfilling
a meaning

A Prayer for All Seasons
“The power of [The
Serenity Prayer] is
overwhelming in that its
simple beauty parallels the
A.A. Fellowship. There are
times when I get stuck
while reciting it, but if I
examine the section which
is troubling me, I find the
answer to my problem….
By accepting life as it is, I
gain serenity. By taking
action, I gain courage and
I thank my Higher Power
for the ability to distinguish
between those situations I
can work on, and those I
must turn over. All that I
have now is a gift from my
Higher Power: my life, my
usefulness, my

Nicotine Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women helping each other to live our lives free of nicotine. We share our experience, strength and hope with each other so that we may be free from this powerful addiction.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using nicotine. There are no dues [...]

Jill C’;s Recovery Story I
Found My True Self I grew
up in a middle-class family
in Australia. We had a
three-story home with an
indoor swimming pool and I
had a pony. But home was
not as it looked from the
outside. Not How It Looked
My family looked very
successful, but my mother
drank alcohol daily and my
dad drank beer and got
drunk. Mum and Dad had
weekly arguments. My
brother was a qualified
Chemist at 21. He
committed suicide one
night- the disease got him.
It took me years to seek
my own recovery after two
marriage break-ups, loss of
homes and a life of
unmanageability that