Bullhead City Crystal Meth Help

Started in April, the campaign is inspired by the successful Montana Meth Project, started in 2005, to increase awareness of the drug through television, radio and print advertising as well as research and public outreach.

In Arizona, a baseline survey of teens aged twelve - seventeen, young adults eighteen - twenty-four years-old and parents of teenagers shows that although many individuals know the risks involved in taking meth, a significant percentage polled associate it with benefits like weight loss or happiness, according to the program Web site. Results show 1 in 6 young adults and one in 25 teens reported having used meth.

In Bullhead City, the crystal meth problem is a problem that brings with it a number of other crimes that affect the entire community.

"I think, in a lot of ways, meth (became) the drug that people used when they wanted to extend their waking hours. And I think that's the lure still today," said Chief Rodney Head of the Bullhead City Police Department, chair of the recently formed Bullhead City Meth Coalition.

"The biggest problem in Mohave County right now when it comes to meth is there's no treatment facility," said Larry Tunforss, one of the local meth coalition representatives. With the closest treatment centers are in Las Vegas and Phoenix, "that becomes very cost prohibitive for a lot of families."

"Our goal is to make the citizens aware that we have a meth coalition in our community," Tunforss said. "We want to send a message to the community that we are united."

If you are seeking Bullhead City crystal meth help think about coming to Crossroads! They have a special Crystal Meth Program and a new Meth Residency House. You can get your life back.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Arizona Alcohol Rehab

It started for me in prison. I was sentenced to 8 years by the state and 4 years by the feds. I was lost and suicidal. How could I know that what I thought was going to be the end of me would turn out to be the beginning?

Yes, I found Alcoholics Anonymous in prison. I was blessed and I was lucky. How lucky was I? Well, most of the prison yards I was on easily held more than a thousand inmates-yet....I never went to one meeting in all the time I was incarcerated that was attended by more than 30 inmates. That is 3% of the population. Yet, we know that statistically somewhere between 60-80% of all inmates have a drug or alcohol problem. The level of denial is mind-boggling!

I knew I needed to check into an Arizona Alcohol Rehab upon my release-it was going to be my only chance. I am grateful someone recommended Crossroads to me. Very grateful. Today I have a good life. Most of my cellmates are back in the joint or dead. God bless Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous and all the other Anonymouses!


Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Phoenix alcoholism treatment program: A Faminine Victory

IV story in Alcoholics Anonymous Edition I to illustrate the 12 steps of AA.

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

The drinking ended the morning after I got there, but the suffering continued for some time. I felt desperate and I questioned my ability to really avail myself of the help that the others had received and applied so successfully. Gradually, however, God began to clear my channels so that real understanding began to come. Then was the time when full realization and acknowledgment came to me. It was realization and acknowledgment of the fact that I was full of self-pity and resentment, realization of the fact that I had not fully given my problems to God. I was still trying to do my own fixing.

That was several years ago. Since then, although circumstances are no different, for there are still trials and hardships and hurts and disappointments and disillusionments, self-pity and resentment are being eliminated. In this past year I haven't been tempted once. I have no more idea of taking a drink to aid me through a difficult period than I would if I had never drank. But I know absolutely that the minute I close my channels with sorrow for myself, or being hurt by, or resentful toward anyone, I am in horrible danger.

I know that my victory is none of my human doing. And the glorious thing is this: I am free, I am happy, and perhaps I am going to have the blessed opportunity of "passing it on." I say in all reverence-Amen.

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Big hello from Australia...

I have been sober for eight and a half years..I fell into the rooms of AA broken and de-moralised... my life has come back together from getting the principles of the 12 steps into my life. It works. I cannot stress how important it is to hang on for the ride of your life. Booze and drugs seemed to rocket me into a wondrous awareness of the world around me but it was only illusion... I had to learn how to see. There is a wholeness in my day to day existance now that I couldn't have imagined when I was bent out of shape... give it your best shot... If I can do it any body can it is VERY simple.
love to all

Methamphetamine Help in Phoenix Schools

Teachers at the Phoenix Preparatory Academy will be the 1st to utilize the new resource guide to accompany Phoenix's crystal methamphetamine education video "METH: don't even start." The community/media unveiling event is at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, at Phoenix Prep, 735 E. Fillmore St.

Mayor Phil Gordon, Vice Mayor Dave Siebert, Councilman Tom Simplot along with educators and eight hundred students from the school will view the video and participate in classroom discussions using the resource guide. Former Arizona Cardinal Bill Lewis, Elizabeth Kempshall, special agent in charge with the USA DEA, and John E. Lewis, special agent in charge with the FBI-Phoenix Division, also will attend.

Earlier this year, all junior high and high schools across Arizona were mailed a copy of the "METH: don't even start" video, a joint production of city channels PHX11 and know99. The next step was to develop a resource guide to aid classroom discussions based on the messages and student reactions from the video. In September, all Arizona junior high and high schools will now receive the resource guide, along with the video on DVD.

The public can get more information and download the resource guide at phoenix.gov/meth.

If you are seeking methamphetamine help Crossroads has a great program. Give us a call! Help is here!

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Phoenix Crystal Meth Recovery

Don't you love the way politicians use or misuse statistics? I always know when there is an election coming soon because the party in power claims drug use is down and the party out of power claims that drug use is up-and they can both back it up with statistics. Then there is the ongoing battle by the rednecks to lock up addicts, and the liberals to give them free programs. After the election, they will all unify in ignoring the problem and hoping it goes away. Don't be fooled-Phoenix Crystal Meth Recovery is one of the most important issues that this city faces. The use of Crystal Meth is pervasive, and it is growing. It is too easy to obtain, too cheap, and too dangerous. If we continue to ignore the problem, or play politics with it, I think the day will soon come when we wish we had paid more attention when we had the chance.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

The Sixties, Psychedelics & Sobriety

I grew up around New Paltz, New York. For years, the best LSD, east of Berkeley, was made there. All the Seventies & Eighties Grateful Dead acid was made there.

My last LSD trip was a hit of blotter at a Robert Fripp concert. It ruined the show for me.

I'm glad I don't do that shit anymore. I'd rather be strapped to a torture rack for eight hours than do that shit.

There's nothing to be learned from that shit. It's a false sense of awareness. It's actually a hindering of the process of becoming a full and complete human.

And that shit will turn and bite. When it does, that shit is never the same for you.

When I began studying Yoga (Intermediate Student) and Tai Chi (beginner) and when George Kinney told me about Chinese medicine I put it all together.

Yoga sees the *person* as a relationship between mind/body that energy runs through. The energy has seven "portals" in the body called Chakras. The Seventh Chakra is the Third Eye of Awareness.

Yoga is a series of breathing exercises and spinal twists to improve circulation and the ability of the spine to carry information to and from the brain. This is getting the body ready to have that spiritual experience.

Chinese medicine sees the body as a system that energy runs through. It has seven energy centers as well connected by energy highways called Meridians. Tai Chi is a series of exercises to stimulate various Meridians.

When I found this out I freaked because this proved to me that there was an esoteric body of knowledge. Both India and China come up with, essentially, the same thing thousands of miles apart? This blew my mind.

People abuse drugs and alcohol because they are seeking a spiritual experience that they are lacking in their everyday lives. The *high* mimics the spiritual experience they crave. This is according to the founder of analytical psychology: Carl Gustav Jung. This is why AA is a spiritual program.

I just love the argument that because peyote and mushrooms and pot are natural that they are somehow *good* and OK to take.

Look, some of the most powerful toxins to humans occur naturally. The toxins in the "deathcap" toadstool are fatal to humans, even in tiny doses. It destroys the liver- quickly.

Some frog venom is the most powerful natural poison. Native just use a touch on a dart.

You've all heard of the lionfish right?

How about deadly nightshade? This is a close relative of tomatoes but eat those purple berries and die quick.

So I guess these things are *OK* to eat too? It's a fucking joke.

I go along with Jung, that people abuse drugs and alcohol because they are seeking a spiritual experience.

The late Frank Zappa said (talking about drugs) that if people want to *learn* they should suck it up and go to the fucking library. Quit looking for a shortcut.

All of the early hallucinogens proselytizers, whom I have heard quoted at the times and read about, talked about LSD as some sort of *shortcut* to enlightenment. In my opinion, these people didn't want to do the work needed for true enlightenment. They didn't want to learn meditation techniques. They didn't want to become a master of Kung Fu. They didn't want to do years and years of yoga. They didn't want to study. They didn't want to work. They wanted to take a pill. That's the COMPLETE Western Attitude too. They were some of the worst offenders.

Then, of course, because it is a DRUG, it led to abuse, which led to dependence, which led to abusing other drugs.

Sure, the sixties wouldn't have happened without LSD but I don't think that the Timothy Learys, Tommy Halls, Richard Alperts, Ken Keseys, et al... KNEW SHIT. I think that they were looking for a short-cut, to get laid, to have fun,... I think that they were thinking like typical Western fucks. Sure, the LSD changed them. Was that a good thing?

Their most damaging legacy was that they influenced hundreds of thousands of others to take the same path. They caused a lot of damage in people's lives.

Look at Roky Erickson. Look at Syd Barrett. Look at Skip Spence. There are still acid causalities walking around homeless. Our institutions have them too. This shit damaged people.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Arizona Meth Recovery

I have been in the "recovery" business for about ten years now, and I was just thinking about an interesting idea. In those ten years, I have NEVER had any former clients, who had relapsed, come back to my office and tell me that relapsing was the best thing they had ever done. Have you ever heard anyone say "Man, relapsing again was just the best thing that ever happened to me. I am so glad to be back on the pipe again!" What is this crazy disorder that causes us to do things that we know have no chance of working out? Ever. The current Meth problem has just made things much worse. The state of Arizona Meth Recovery continues to worsen. At Crossroads, more and more people are showing up with meth problems every day. There does not seem to be any end in sight.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

I'm a Miracle

The central fact of our lives today is the absolute certainty that our Creator has entered into our hearts and lives in a way which is indeed miraculous. He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves. ~ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 25

When I think back to 2 years ago when the last days of my drinking, I was spiraling into a vortex totally out of control. There were no breaks in the bleakness that my life had become. Sneaking out to drink in the car or walk around the corner so drunk that I could not remember where the hell I was. I would sober up long enough to know that I was out of control and start the whole process all over again...drinking at whatever time I came to, to meet yet another day.

The steps to recovery were not easy for me to do after step 5. Step 9 scared the hell out of me. I had to go back and make amends for the damage that I had done, if I could. There are only a few that have not bothered to hear or read what I've had to say. I can't say that I was ok with it, but I had to accept it. Step 9 was my "acceptance" step. I had to accept that up until I knew what made me drink, I never knew who I was or accepted anything good about myself.
It took my sponsor, staying in the rooms of AA, taking commitments, and working with others, that helped build and shape my physical sobriety. It was the acceptance of a power greater than me that I could be all the things I dreamed about. Relying on that same power has propelled me into a deeper spirituality that I want to practice every day. I'm living a life better than my dreams or desires or original goals could have ever taken me. I'm happy within myself.

New Year's morning, I spent a couple of hours meditating wanting to honestly know more about the direction my life is taking today. I wanted to make sure that the "old" ideas and the "old" behaviors are not apart of my thought process to the best of my ability. I know that I will have to depend on the Creator to do the follow up. I still have a character defect of procrastination that likes to creep in. I've done so much emotional clean up already, that it is a miracle that I survived sober!! Fear after fear kept surfacing. I thought I was done with all these fears when I did my 4th and 5th steps in Jan 2005. The problem, the emotions, I chose to ignore and just keep moving forward hoping that I was ok.

However, my goal from October 2006 on has been Emotional Sobriety. Why? Because "glossing over" them didn't work, they came back to bite me in the ass with a vengeance!! Emotional sobriety is a system of emotional growth using the 12 steps of AA as a guideline. I not only use the steps as a guideline, it was the process. My sponsor was a tremendous help in realizing that I needed to understand those emotions that I glossed over the first time. I had to sit down and write (again) those areas that were still pretty powerful in my life. Those were the same areas that I believed that my spiritual growth was being hindered because I had not totally let go. Since this was my 3rd sponsor, she did not hear the original 4th and 5th. So there was quite a bit of apprehension and fear about presenting these defects to my character. The only thing that I was sure of when I did this, the Creator arranged for this sponsor to be in my life. I just needed the courage to follow through with the right action.

I can't convey in words how wonderfully serene my life has become since I've now understand the emotions that were attached to the fear. I have asked the Creator to remove the defects by name in my 7th step prayer. I can't even explain the experience, intelligently. My best description would probably be a relaxing walk on the beach at sunset. Just listening to the waves as my mind calms down from the day. Since I live in the mountains, perhaps a nice walk along a trail overlooking the valley.

I just know I don't want to ever forget where I've come from. If I do, I might as well drink because I will have lost the love that the Creator has blessed me with. I didn't deserve recovery. I was chosen. What a blessing!! My prayer today, Creator, let my beliefs be strong today. Help me to have faith in your direction for my life.

Prescilla P. (DOS 9/25/2004)


Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Arizona Cocaine Recovery - RIP Rod Beck

Authorities found crack cocaine and other drug paraphernalia in the home of the late former Major League Baseball pitcher Rod Beck.

A police report on Beck's, June - twenty-fourth, death described large amounts of crack and cocaine as well as pipes for consuming the drugs. The Medical Examiner’s report has been made public but Beck's ex-wife, Stacey Beck, said that she was aware he was involved with drugs because they remained close even after she filed for divorce in 2004.

"Rodney had a disease of addiction, which is a brain disease, and it stole him away from the people he had," she said. "Anyone associating with him in the last two years was feeding the problem and was not part of the solution."

Stacey Beck said her ex-husband had battled addiction since 2003 when he pitched for the San Diego Padres. In thirteen seasons, Beck went 38-45 with a 3.30 earned-run average and his 286 saves, 22nd on the all-time Major League list. Beck was released by the Padres in August of 2004.

Are you seeking Arizona cocaine recovery? Come to Crossroads! They have a great program specifically for meth/crack/cocaine addicts. You can find the help that you seek here.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Arizona Meth Recovery - More Teens Using

Amy Liu is just nineteen but she has already been arrested for assault, been hospitalized for malnutrition and had to have her septum cauterized. When asked how all this happened she says "I'm an addict".

Liu is an Arizona meth user, or at least she was. Recently she celebrated her thirtieth day clean.

It started six years ago, in of all places the girls bathroom at her high school. "The girl that offered me meth seemed happy, I wanted to be happy," said Liu.

According to a recent survey one in twenty-five Arizona teens say they've tried meth. Liu says she was hooked after the first hit, "The high was like something I've never experienced," said Liu.

Liu is currently on probation and if she's arrested again will go to prison, "I have to stay clean, if I don't they'll lock me up," said Liu.

If you are seeking Arizona meth recovery Crossroads can help. They have a special program for Arizona crystal meth addicts.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Arizona Alcoholics Anonymous: Spiritual Awakening/Experience, What does it mean?

When Alcoholics Anonymous book was published, there was no appendix to explain what Spiritual Experience/Awakening really meant. There were may inquiries into New York Central office seeking explanation of what Bill W really meant by those terms.

So, in the second edition, they added appendix ii to explain what spiritual experience/awakening really means. The Key word is CHANGE. Its a recipe to go from restless, irritable and discontented to one with peace of mind, serenity and happiness.

The terms spiritual experience and spiritual awakening are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms.

Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in the nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals (Change). Happily for everyone, this conclusion is erroneous.

In the first few chapters a number of sudden revolutionary changes are described. Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded that in order to recover they must acquire an immediate and overwhelming God-consciousness followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.

Among our rapidly growing membership of thousands of alcoholics such transformations (Change), though frequent, are by no means the rule. Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James calls the educational variety because they develop slowly over a period of time. Quite often friends of the newcomer are aware of the difference long before he is himself. He finally realizes that he has undergone a profound alteration (Change) in his reaction to life; that such a change could hardly have been brought about by himself alone. What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been accomplished by years of self-discipline. With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves.

Most of us think this awareness of a Power greater than ourselves is the essence of spiritual experience. Our more religious members call it God-consciousness.

Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experience can recover, provided he does not close his mind to all spiritual concepts. He can only be defeated by an attitude of intolerance or belligerent denial.

We find that no one need have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. Willingness, honesty and open mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance, that principle is contempt prior to investigation

Herbert Spencer

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Phoenix Crystal Meth Recovery

Phoenix citizens use crystal meth at a rate higher than the USA average according to a new survey. A telephone survey of twelve hundred teens, young adults and parents in Arizona was conducted and released this week by the Arizona Meth Project.

The research indicates that 1 in 25 Arizona teenagers has used the drug, and in the 18- to 24-year-old age bracket, the chance of using meth goes up to 1 in 6.

"We want the social norm to be that meth is not a cool drug," said Arizona Meth Project manager Linda Mushkatel. "But changes take time. We hope to see a shift in the acceptance of meth. It really struck me the number of teens who said a family member used meth or a friend within their social circle."

If you are seeking Phoenix Crystal Meth Recovery Crossroads is a great way to go. They run a special "meth house" where you can find the help that you need.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Arizona Meth Recovery - Is Your Hog on Crystal Meth?

Crystal meth is a huge problem in the Southwest. If you are looking for Arizona meth recovery, Crossroads runs a program exclusively for meth addiction.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Phoenix Alcohol Rehab - Do You Need It? Pt. 5

Take a look at this poor guy. He's passed out drunk and his drinking buddies cover him in female necessities, even sticking on in his mouth. He never knew a thing.

It appears that he might need some good ol' Phoenix alcohol rehab followed by some intense Phoenix AA meetings.

Eh, but when he wakes up he'll probably go: "I'll never do *that* again" and be on his merry way.

Remember, you have a monkey on your back right now. By working the 12 Steps of AA you get the monkey off your back. But that sonofabitch is FOLLOWING you! The monkey follows you for the rest of your life. It just how CLOSE is the monkey is all. If you're working a good program, the monkey is far away. If you're not doing what you need to do to stay sober, that monkey is tugging at your shirt-sleeve.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Phoenix alcoholism treatment program: European Drinker 3rd Story in Alcoholics Anonymous - Edition 1

The European Drinker to illustrate step 3:

"Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him."

As always middle of the story:

Then occurred the event that saved me. An alcoholic came to see me who is a doctor. He didn't talk like a preacher at all. In fact his language was perfectly suited to my understanding. He had no desire to know anything except whether I was definite about my desire to quit drinking. I told him with all the sincerity at my command that I did.

He went on talking and told me that he had found the plan has a basis of love and the practice of Christ's injunction, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Taking that as a foundation, he reasoned that if a man followed that rule he could not be selfish. I could see that. And he further said that God could not accept me as a sincere follower of His Divine Law unless I was ready to be thoroughly honest about it.

That was perfectly logical. My church taught that. I had always known that in theory. We talked, too, about personal morals. Every man has his problem of this kind but we didn't discuss it very much. My visitor well knew, that as I tried to follow God I would get to studying these things out for myself.

We talked things over a long time. I saw readily that I couldn't afford to quibble. I already believed in God, had always done so. Was ready to give my will to Him. That's what it came to.

That day I gave my will to God and asked to be directed. But I have never thought of that as something to do and then forget about. I very early came to see that there had to be a continual renewal of that simple deal with God; that I had perpetually to keep the bargain. So
I began to pray; to place my problems in God's hands.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Phoenix Alcoholics Anonymous - Do You Need It? Part 4

Take a look at this poor guy. He drinks himself into oblivion and his friends cover him in flour and leave him on the floor. He never knew a thing; he was too desensitized.

If you ever find yourself in a *similar* out-of-control situation, you *may* need some good ol' Phoenix Alcoholics Anonymous. It's good for what ails you!

It's not all fun and games when we drink like this. We can die. We can vomit and choke on it like Jimi Hendrix. We can die of alcohol poisoning like John Bonham. We can go into a coma like Karen Ann Quinlan. If we're a woman, we can get raped. We can die of exposure like Ira Hayes. We can pass out behind the wheel of a vehicle and kill ourselves and others. People die drunk. You never know what hit you either.

If you find yourself waking up from some out-of-control situation, due to being drunk, you might want to amble into a Phoenix AA meeting. See ya there. The coffee's hot. Try it for 90 days. If you don't like it AA will be glad to refund your misery.

Crossroads, Inc. is a non-profit, drug and alcohol recovery, organization located in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. Crossroads is a Level Four transitional facility licensed by the State of Arizona. The Crossroads program addresses the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of alcoholism or drug addiction, by providing food, shelter, 12 step structure and discipline. We can help you find direction to sober living. Pick up the phone and call us: 602-279-2585. Visit our website at: http://sober360.com

Minus faith, there is no life, only existence.

While in my disease, all I had was existence. I relinquished what little faith I did have in God for the love and caress of the drink. I had open the door to a living hell and stepped in a willing participant. There I stayed no matter what the cost to my family, my career, or even myself. I could not see the way out because I was participating in my own death, my own failure, and my own human weakness. The more I longed for a way to get out and hide from situations that hurt me emotionally and spiritually, the deeper I traveled towards the abyss of just existing.

During my internship of human failure and detachment of life, I found it hard to believe in anything divine such as angels or mercy. Spiritually drained and emotionally beaten, mercy found me anyway. My angel saw the struggle that I had between life and death. That day was the turning point of this tortured soul’s journey towards recovery. My human nature wanted to stay with my companion alcohol, but my spiritual nature had had enough. Where I had no hope, no faith, and no willpower of my own the merciful hand of God reached in my hell and saved me.
Equipped with only a half-hearted spiritual desire to change and a willingness to stop the pain in my life; I had to acknowledge and most importantly, accepted I had a serious problem with alcohol during my life. I found guidance and help with my turmoil in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. I found a God that I now understand. I partnered with my God and a spiritually strong sponsor to go through the steps. Through prayer and meditation I find strength, courage, and faith that surpass my own understanding.

I no longer have to just exist, I live. I don’t have to control anything, however, I have hope. My life is not steak and roses – if it is, the steak has rocks on it and the roses have permanent thorns. Faith is a key to successfully working my program in AA. For some of us faith comes easily. Others of us, myself, that have experienced betrayal, faith is a struggle.

Today, it is still easy to lose faith when I get troubled or burdened with life. There are days I feel like faith has just slipped away. Those are the days I feel anger towards God and my fears escalate. I stay sober for myself; however, I’ve dedicated my sobriety to my daughter, family, and friends that endured the pain of my disease. We shouldn’t be surprised that we face times when our faith seems to disappear; I view it as a test of fire. In order to make a diamond you will need a lot of heat.

Prescilla P.,
DOS 9/25/04



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Phoenix alcoholism treatment program: The Unbeliever

This is the 2nd Story (The Unbeliever) as that appeared in AA edition 1.

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity (fulfilled by 10th step promises).

from the middle of the story:

What! An incurable disease? Doc, you' re kidding me! You're trying to scare me into stopping! What's that you say? You wish you were? What are those tears in your eyes Doc? What's that? Forty years you've spent at this alcoholic business and you have yet to see a true alcoholic cured? Your life defeated and wasted? Oh, come, come Doc . . . what would some of us do without you?

What's that Doc? You know a couple of fellows that were steady customers here that haven't been drunk for about ten months? You say they claim they are cured? And they make an avocation of passing it on to others? What have they got? You don't know . . . and you don't believe they are cured . . . well why tell me about it? A fine fellow you say, plenty of money, and you're sure it isn't a racket . . . just wants to be helpful . . . call him up for me will you, Doc?

But he did get my confidence when he started to tell what he had gone through. It was so exactly like my case. He knows what this torture is. He raised my hopes so high; it looked as though he had something. I don't know, I guess I was so sold that I expected him to spring some kind of a pill and I asked him desperately what it was.

And he said "God."

And I laughed.

He said that it sounded screwy but it worked, at least it had with him . . . said he was not a religionist . . . in fact didn't go to church much . . . my ears came up at that . . . his unconventionality attracted me . . . said that some approaches to religion were screwy . . . talked about how the simplest truth in the world had been often all balled up by complicating it . . . that attracted me . . .

He said: "I came to the conclusion that there is SOMETHING. I know not what It is, but It is bigger than I. If I will acknowledge It, if I will humble myself, if I will give in and bow in submission to that SOMETHING and then try to lead a life as fully in accord with my idea of good as possible, I will be in tune." And later the word good contracted in his mind to God.
(After heavy alcoholic thinking, he finally arrives at the conclusion, the only hope is a power greater than human being):

Brrr, this floor is cold on my knees . . . why are the tears running like a river down my cheeks . . . God, have mercy on my soul!

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Phoenix alcoholism treatment program: Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous - Edition 1

Bill W was a great teacher, he always used examples to drive his point across.

To describe power of the fellowship, he used the example of survivors of the ship wreck.

To illustrate the ramification of not embracing the 12 steps of AA, he added stories of JIM and FRED who took step 1, 2 and 3 but don't follow-through and end up drunk (More About Alcoholism).

The stories at the back of the book are included for a reason, to relate to a step in sequence.

The first story

"The Doctors' Nightmare" was included for of course to illustrate that Dr Bob the powerlessness (The problem). Dr Bob was trying to fix himself but didn't know the problem:

"About the time of the beer experiment I was thrown in with a crowd of people who attracted me because of their seeming poise, health, and happiness. They spoke with great freedom from embarrassment, which I could never do, and they seemed very much at ease on all occasions and appeared very healthy. More than these attributes, they seemed to be happy. I was self conscious and ill at ease most of the time, my health was at the breaking point, and I was thoroughly miserable. I sensed they had something I did not have, from which I might readily profit. I learned that it was something of a spiritual nature, which did not appeal to me very much, but I thought it could do no harm. I gave the matter much time and study for the next two and a half years, but still got tight every night nevertheless. I read everything I could find, and talked to everyone who I thought knew anything about it."

(It was after Bill W explained the disease concept, he was able to apply the program of action and get over the malady.)

"The question which might naturally come into your mind would be: "what did the man do or say that was different from what others had done or said?" It must be remembered that I had read a great deal and talked to everyone who knew, or thought they knew, anything about the subject of alcoholism. This man was a man who had experienced many years of frightful drinking, who had had most all the drunkard's experience known to man, but who had been cured by the very means I had been trying to employ, that is to say, the spiritual approach. He gave me information about the subject of alcoholism which was undoubtedly helpful. Of far more importance was the fact that he was the first living human with whom I bad ever talked, who knew what he was talking about in regard to alcoholism from actual experience. In other words, be talked my language. He knew all the answers, and certainly not because he had picked them up in his reading."

Next story the 'UnBeliever' was put to illustrate step 2. Will cover that in my next blog.

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I was down at the corner of Osborn and 16th Street today and a man was drunk and passed out in the street. The people that I was with laughed and thought it was funny. The man *might* have been hit by a car he was bleeding. But he was so drunk that you couldn't tell.

It really affected me. I didn't think that it was funny. I just turned and walked away.

They put an orange cone in the lane where the man was but two cars in a row ran the cone over. The last thing I remember seeing was some bulked-up guy screaming at the drunk man about being passed out in front of his store.

We alcoholics are the lowest of the low. We get no pity. Zero.

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