Addiction Resolution Weblog

TREATMENT CLOSED

2008-11-11T11:49:48Z

Treatment is no longer being offered from the site www.addictionresolution.com - there are links to 12 Step fellowships and a link to this blog.

Oil Addiction

2008-07-17T17:31:34Z

Shadowboxing the Apocalypse And so the shadowboxing continues, with both sides of the aisle feinting and jabbing against straw men, and getting us exactly nowhere in terms of real solutions. Each side blames the other for being in this predicament, while none dare whisper the one word that ought to be the first on the list: conservation. Our addiction to oil is too great to even talk about. A silent war rages within the very breast of America. Will we continue to insist, with the mentality of a two-year old, that all the oil we want should be ours, that we have some birthright to endless growth and cheap energy? Or will we grow up, and realize that we're neither immortal nor wise, and that the world has real limits we have to live within?

Basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous

2007-12-23T23:41:12Z

Big Book On Line Official AA website - basic text in PDF format

Boozenight debates

2007-12-12T21:11:22Z

BBC NEWS | Talk about Newsnight | Who should pay? 20. At 04:43 PM on 12 Dec 2007, Andrew Dettman wrote: Addiction is a disease, a syndrome of various symptoms that relate back to a tap-root of meaninglessness and erroneous material or behavioural prioritisation within a personal or community expression. It is a disease that thrives in the fog of miscommunication and mixed messages. Approaches striving in all good will to provide solutions to alcohol addicts should beware of the quicksand of competing diagnostic and treatment models lest their efforts fall into the black hole of the very problem, addiction, that they are striving to alleviate. Not until the medical establishment more clearly recognises addiction as a disease, similar to the American approach, a disease with many forms and variations of which alcohol addiction is but one, shall policy makers be able to escape from the present dilemma within which the diseased tail is wagging the beleaguered dog of social policy. Alcohol is not the problem, it is the revealer of the paucity and hypocrisy of the inner state of too many individuals in our collective. Alcohol abusers are the boils on the face of our society. We either treat such spots topically and cosmetically and look for the very quick fix in policy terms that the addicts look for in substance terms, or we look deeper into the constitution of the body of our society to see where the ills really originate. That problem source has more in common with a personal Golden Calf than it has with a non existent political silver bullet.
As Carl Jung rightly said and I paraphrase, society is simply a collection of individuals, when sufficient numbers of individuals wish to change their inner worlds, then society changes.

Battle lines are breaking

2007-11-25T23:23:58Z

Government in Crisis (I): Victory to the traffickers: Heroin and cocaine prices on the street are at record lows as seizures plummet - Independent Online Edition > Crime

A website to guage our addiction to and withdrawal from ... oil and its derivatives ... plus insights into replacement technologies

2007-11-11T10:50:09Z

Energy and Capital: Independent News and Commentary on the Energy Sector

Overeaters Anonymous

2007-11-06T21:22:57Z

overeaters anoymous great britain This web site is a resource for people with eating disorder

Official Site for Gamblers Anonymous

2007-11-06T21:04:14Z

Gamblers Anonymous in the UK This is the link to the official GA site offering information upon problem gambling and a path to recovery.

Joe McQ dies - Trailblazer in addiction clarification

2007-10-27T15:51:39Z

Kelly Foundation, Inc. I salute you Joe McQ and thank you for your life ... I met Joe in Scarborough in the UK when he came with Charlie P for a Big Book Study Weekend in the late nineties. He touched my heart. I now work in the recovery field and only have the courage to carry the burden of professional duties because of his trail-blazing work. His integrity and clear leadership around ethics and the possibility of people in their own recovery clinically helping a 21st century generation understand the underlying message of spiritual hope that addiction conveys to humanity is unparallelled. We are all addicted to oil and the fabric of human spirituality is frayed. Joe McQ stands tall and clear in the message of his life with a voice that illuminates the darkest corners of beleagured communities urging them to listen to the redemptive message of the recovered outcasts of this age. God has always touched the lives of the marginalised, the lost, the drunks, the whores and the criminals first when he revitalises his message to His own creation. Joe McQ carried his message faithfully and well and is a giant link in the present chain of transmission of Love and the Language of the Heart. Love to you Andrew D - Hull, England www.addictionresolution.com

Alcohol - legal drug pushing?

2007-10-14T12:34:09Z

BBC NEWS | Health | Alcohol-related casualties 'rise' If alcohol were to be discovered today it might be banned; alcohol is the tap root drug of most drug addicts and many recovering drug addicts relapse back their illegal drug of choice via alcohol.

Empty words lead to meaningless eating.

2007-10-14T08:10:33Z

BBC NEWS | UK | Obesity likened to climate change Eating disorder is a form of social and personal addiction that is now being seen more clearly. It is not the food that goes in through the mouth that starts the problem.

The Golden Calf of money as a commodity and a target obsessed political system coupled with religious disintegration are symptoms of a wider urgency that eventually urges individuals to wake up to their personal meaning dilemma.

In the 'metaphysical' it is what is eaten by the eyes and ears that prepares the inner diction disintegration - political spin and broken, empty words lead to addictive and innappropriate filling attempts by individuals in a 'physical' compensation to meaninglessness that is fatal.

There is a solution to all forms of addiction. However, a metaphysical problem requires a metaphysical solution.

Not so magic mushrooms are made illegal - that'll raise their street cred then!

2007-10-12T22:35:01Z

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Netherlands bans magic mushrooms Are the Dutch reaping what they have sown or is this just a case showing again the need for education and a coherent legal framework to administer noxious substances all of which are in fact less noxious than alcohol.

Police Chief remains consistent

2007-10-12T16:52:42Z

BBC NEWS | Wales | Brunstrom's campaign over drugs Like him or loath him, Richard Brunstrom leads his force with consistency

An antidote for those who fear Islam and are addicted by the news.

2007-10-12T16:36:28Z

Weapons of Mass Destruction This article is a clear statement from a muslim against those muslims who say that Allah condones their suicidal excess. All forms of addiction are fanatical, the answer is in the middle way.

More failures of drug policies

2007-10-12T10:14:11Z

BBC NEWS | Politics | Crime assets agency 'ill-planned'