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The information you will find here is in two formats one is ODT, which is Open Document through the Open Office Suite program which I use on a consistant basis. The e-books, and newsletter are of my authorship, The Articles are from NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse). The videos and audios are from television and meetings. I have tried to place links to these items and to the best of my knowledge they work, please let me know if they don't as I will repair them post haste. Please look around to your hearts content. Below is excerpt of one of the E-Books I offer, just to give an indication of what's inside.

E-Book # 1 

 

 

The beginning  

Here is the question, what causes addiction to happen? The answer to this question has perplexed professionals since the beginning of time, because you see, addiction has been around for as long as man has walked this planet. The relevance of the answer we seek, varies as we go from professional to professional.

The Behavioral scientists insist that it is a learned behavior and can be controlled by replacing that behavior with a more acceptable behavior, my response to that theory is whom is it that decides what behavior is acceptable?

The Social scientist says it is a social practice that has been observed on a social scale for a long period of time. My response, if it is so socially unacceptable, why has it been allowed to persist for so long?

The Medical profession has deemed it to be a disease process, my response, how do you catch it? The Religious community has deemed it to be an absence of God's presence in the addicts life, my rejoinder, how can that be possible when you swear that God is present in everything?

To quote a verse from a song by Harry Belafonte,

"It was as clear as mud

but it cover de ground,

an all de confusion

make me brain go round."

So for all intent and purpose, that being our well being, and the continuation of the thing we call life, let us agree on one thing, for us,


THE CAUSE OF ADDICTION IS US,

THIS AT LEAST PROVIDES A STARTING POINT.


 

Now before you throw this e Book across the room, and remember it's attached to your computer! Ask yourself why would I say this? The answer to that question is exceedingly simple, because it is TRUE.

Before you go off on me, let me explain something, I am not a Guru, I am not a fortune teller, I am not a practicing professional, I am a grateful recovering addict that has been around a long time,

I have seen theories come and go, I have seen sure cures come and go, I have seen the powerful brought to their knees, and I have seen a lot of good people die because of this thing called addiction.

   

E-Book 2 


Why me God, why me??


To understand the answer to this question, we must first begin to understand the third word in that question, God, who and what He is in our own minds and hearts. For us who are addicted to something, (that covers about half the worlds population, [the other half just does not know it yet,])

that is a tall order, because we had a god that we understood very well, our addiction. It's not that we are stupid, it's just that we don't see it that way, why try to understand something that we didn't even credit with existence?


In all the time I practiced my addiction, the hardest thing for me to accept was the fact that I had a problem. Although others tried to point it out to me on many occasions, I just could not see it. The paradigm in which I existed did not allow for such a revelation. So, as a result, I continued in my behaviors while thinking that there was something wrong with the people around me, how could they say I had a problem when as I readily knew no such problem existed.


In any recovery program worth it's salt, it is said to alter the fact that there is a problem, you must admit that the problem exists. Now how do you accomplish that when you know with every fiber of your being that there is no such problem?


You then, for the sake of your own sanity, after being told over and over that you did not get into that particular program because of


 

Eating green beans and ice cream”, or that your resistance to the truth (also called denial) is evidence that you need the help”,

 


appear to accept that help so they will just let you be?


But is this acquiescence the true surrender that is needed to effect the change we needed in our lives in order to feel worthwhile?



 

I am sorry to be the one to tell you, but no it is not!

 


The reason I say this is because of one simple fact that we don't often look at, and that is who is saying it, we are, and we are the ones who got ourselves into the hole we are trying to dig ourselves out of. And, weather you choose to recognize the fact or not, within the framework of the behaviors that got us to this point we developed, nurtured, and practiced the ability to lie and manipulate our surroundings which included family, friends, loved ones, hated ones, and ones we didn't even know. But, the ones we lied to and manipulated the most was ourselves, to the point of beginning to believe ourselves, ergo, the cycle continues. Now how do you tell when the addict is telling a lie, that part is simple, the addicts lips are moving.

 
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