12 Step Meeting Elisabeth Hudson HUMS 113 Professor Eric Comstock 8.01.14 12 Step Meeting One my way to the meeting I was feeling really anxious. I didn’t really know what to expect. I could imagine how many people would be there or what the energy would be like. I wondered if there would be tears‚ or laughter. If it would be happiness or solemn silence. I had never been to anything like that so I think the feeling was just me being completely unsure. I was also excited to see what it would
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been dropping for a number of reasons. The states have taken some effective measures such as immediate license suspension‚ lowering the blood alcohol concentration legal level from .01 to .08 for adults and for people under age 21. Other’s such as sobriety checkpoints‚ public education‚ community awareness‚ and media campaigns about the dangers of alcohol-impaired driving. In addition some strategies should be considered‚ such as plan for injury prevention and control. Such strategies include changing
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Running Header: INTERVENTIONS FOR FUNCTIONING ALCOHOLIC PARENTS Interventions for Functioning Alcoholic Parents Many parents in society are functioning alcoholics. These parents are often not looked at as a problem because they maintain jobs‚ get their children to school. However‚ the impact they have on their family live is horrendous can become very damaging. These parents need an intervention just as much as any other alcoholic. They may appear to be functioning but their lives
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Harm Reduction paper Randy Jones Substance Abuse Counselling January 18‚ 2012 This paper will discuss the principles and position of harm reduction. It will also examine the public perception of the user‚ which has created an ineffective philosophy. Most importantly‚ my paper seeks to recognize the harm of harm reduction. This discussion will highlight the lack of hope it creates in the user. Harm reduction needs to be addressed so that a long-term solution for the user can be implemented‚ not
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Recovery Group Field Trip and Paper Twelve Step Meeting Western International University BEH-318-4432-Addictions Melissa D July 29‚ 2012 I attended a local Narcotics Anonymous meeting held at the Salvation Army building in my hometown. Upon entering the meeting room‚ the few people that were in the room did say hello to me‚ however‚ no one asked me why I was there. I was left alone to choose my seat wondering what was next. Eventually‚ a middle-aged man entered the room. I soon learned that
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account consideration in regards to written agreements and contracts. Hamer sued Mr. Sidway‚ the executor of the estate of William Story. Story was the uncle of the plaintiff. Story promised in writing in a letter to his nephew if Hamer maintained sobriety and refrained from gambling‚ he would give Hamer $5‚000 upon his nephew’s twenty-first birthday. Hamer did not receive the money on his birthday after obliging by the agreement because Story said Hamer was not yet responsible enough to handle the
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Neha Reddy Informative Speech On the night of May 14‚ 1988‚ Larry Mahoney was drunk‚ so drunk that his blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) was more than twice Kentucky’s legal limit. Regardless‚ Mahoney got behind the wheel of his pickup truck and proceeded to drive northbound in the southbound lane of Interstate 71‚ crashing head-on into a church bus returning from an amusement park. The collision ruptured the bus’s gas tank‚ causing a fire that killed twenty-three children and four
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Running head: Benefits of Returning to School 1 BENEFITS OF RETURNING TO SCHOOL 2 I wanted to attend college directly after high school. But many different circumstances kept me from going; I began a job that required a lot of my time‚ energy‚ and focus‚ and then I got married and gave birth to my daughter Heidi. Now at age 27 I finally have the opportunity to go to college. This is an important step for
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Babylon Revisited: Analysis Of Characters. Charlie Wales Despite his many flaws‚ Charlie is a man whom almost everyone can’t help but like. It’s surprising that Charlie’s so likeable considering his wild past of uncontrollable alcoholism‚ his possible complicity in his wife’s death‚ and the fact that he essentially abandoned his child. He seems so earnest in his efforts to reverse the situation. We also note that he rejects his former friends and he merely takes only one drink per day. Fitzgerald
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In January of 1994‚ rebellion broke out in the Southern Mexican state of Chiapas. An indigenous group calling themselves the Zapatistas - after the renowned hero Emiliano Zapata – attacked following Mexico’s entrance into the North American Free Trade Agreement‚ condemning the “political corruption‚ local bossism and officially sanctioned violence” of the government and demanding social justice. Despite the period immediately before the outbreak of rebellion having been heavily studied‚ events of
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