La Familia had even been obliged to close a group of rehabilitation centers it ran for alcoholics and drug addicts.
It was an address for Alcoholics Anonymous, and the meeting times.
But its social logic is the same you find at coffee hours for retirees, cocktail gatherings for Notre Dame alumni, and meetings for recovering alcoholics.
Plus, clinical experience with patients who describe themselves as Internet addicts has been that they do not respond to treatment in the same way that, for example, alcoholics and substance-abusers do.
Instead of charging the highest premiums for overweight smokers, alcoholics with bad driving records and dangerous hobbies, the most expensive policies will be priced for those who are younger with histories of mental illness, divorce, criminal records or severe financial difficulties.
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Gascoigne told the Sun that the way forward for him now was to start attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings again.
Mr Appleby rejected the idea that alcoholics should be made a low priority for a liver transplant.
Programmes are to be set up for prisoners, many of whom are drug addicts or alcoholics.
The French long for a Europe of defence, the Germans are the recovering alcoholics of the military world, so that makes us the swing voter, able to set the pace.
The good news is that we actually have organizational models like the Marine Corps, Alcoholics Anonymous, the IBM Executive School, Teach for America and monasteries the world over where companies like Google can learn the incredible motivational power of transcendent purpose.
That article, Shame by Any Other Name, Lessons for Restorative Justice from the Traditions, Principles and Practices of Alcoholics Anonymous, explores the folk healing practices of A.A. Though recovery stories told to me by friends certainly informed that paper, I did an enormous amount of research about the reasons why A.A. is efficacious and the reasons it fails.
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One of Dr Hibbeln's other studies, for example, showed that omega-3 supplements given to violent alcoholics reduced their anger levels by a third within three months.
Alcoholics Anonymous, which otherwise insists on brutal honesty, allows an exception for not telling your spouse about affairs.
Around 40% of college students engage in binge drinking frequently enough that they might qualify for the diagnosis -- but only 5% of graduates over 26 are current alcoholics.
This is par for the course in the creative industries: the two best places for young people on the make in Hollywood to meet the players are bars and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Mr Gourlay said some of the other workmen were alcoholics and William Connors had difficulty in stopping them drinking as he wanted them fit for work.
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The Missionaries of Charity runs hostels for lepers, AIDS patients, the crippled and mentally handicapped, unwed mothers, abandoned children, alcoholics, drug abusers.
The ex-footballer said he followed that by staying off alcohol for the following six months, but his own despair at his lapse meant that he failed to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and isolated himself, barely eating.
The largest was an Alcoholics Anonymous convention attended by about 50, 000 people in 2000, said Laura McCarthy, a spokeswoman for Meet Minneapolis, one of the Twin Cites region's convention-and-visitor's organizations.
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