12-Step/Mutual Support Group Meeting Directions and Requirements Read Chapter 10 in advance of attending the meeting. 1. Students should choose the type of meeting they wish to attend: Alcoholics Anonymous‚ Narcotics Anonymous‚ Overeaters Anonymous‚ Reformers Unanimous etc. Look in Chapter 10 for a list of others. Often these meetings are held at churches‚ shelters‚ and helping agencies. They are offered at various times of the day and multiple times each week. Rocky Mount has some really
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For my Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting assignment I attended an AA meeting held at Annunciation RC Church in Paramus. I was a bit nervous before coming in to the meeting. I had my own personal feelings towards alcoholics for some time. I had a few relatives that dealt with alcohol with some of their lives. Like most families from my background‚ talking about alcoholism just never happened. It was something that was kept secret and never discussed. My religion tells us that drinking any kind of
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you were saying‚ all I could think about was “that doesn’t sound like me”! It had to be though because no one else wrote that paper for me. After a lot of thought I went back quite a few years to a time when I was an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous because my drinking and behavior got out of hand and I needed help. It got me through a period of time‚ but I have still managed to stay sober three years after leaving AA‚ and I was told that was an impossible thing for a person to do. They tried
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Abstract The level at which the internet is taking over the traditional Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) old ways of face-to-face conversations is immense. Having attended the AA meetings both online and in person‚ I noticed that. Fifty-two people attended the online AA meeting and only twenty-six participated in person. This shows that most people struggling with alcohol addiction are now attending AA meetings via computer in search of sobriety than in person. In my thoughts‚ it is questionable whether
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Gambling Addiction Gambling affects the person doing it and anyone who is close to them. Through personal experience getting hooked on gambling is mainly from the action and thrill of everything associated with gambling. When gambling they are part of the action and not just watching people play a game for money. If one is truly a pathological gambler‚ just like lying they cannot stop unless they are helped. When gambling it is very difficult to come to the realization that one is addicted. They
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Kristen Paul Week 7 December 1‚ 2012 The Rights that Inmates Possess Upon entering prison‚ inmates will lose most of their right as a free citizen. Although most of our rights afforded to us are a result of how we live our lives here in the United States‚ some of our rights still are maintained within the prison walls. These rights are listed within the First‚ Fourth‚ Eighth‚ and Fourteenth Amendment. The First amendment states we have the right to freedom of speech‚ press‚ and religion
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My first experience at an alcoholics anonymous meeting was very interesting and in a way uplifting. The meeting I attended took place in Philadelphia Miss at 208 Range Ave. at 7:30 p.m. in the evening. Alcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid fellowship founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron‚ Ohio. AA states that its “primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety”. The only membership requirement is to stop drinking and to carry its message
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SAB 210 April 12‚ 2010 Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting Reaction Paper I attended an A.A. meeting on April 5‚ 2010. Before the meeting I seemed very anxious. This was not my first meeting I have been to meetings before but they all seem to make me nervous. When I arrived the nervousness had eased off because everyone had made me feel welcomed. I was made to feel like a part of their family from the beginning to the end of the meeting. I seemed to have realized I missed going to these meetings
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This week‚ on Tuesday‚ I attended an Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) meeting. The group of people who went to it was very diverse‚ of various ages‚ backgrounds‚ levels of recovery‚ experiences‚ but with one goal in common: to get sober for life (live a life alcohol-free) by realizing that there is something greater than themselves and they are not in control of themselves. Truly‚ the program seems to be a complex one that requires time (to go from step to step) and guidance from a sponsor that each attendee
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Manoj Adhikari ENG -122 Date: 12/05/2012 Workaholism: A Social Problem of The Present Introduction In the modern society‚ the problem of workaholism is quite acute. According to studies‚ most strongly this illness affects employees in Japan and the UK; this issue is relevant for the U.S.as well. There have always been people who work more than others and could not imagine their life without work. However‚ with the commercialization of society‚ their number
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