IntheRooms.com social networking website for addicts, RT and Kenny, did a series of interviews with Lee and James of the Recovery 101 podcast (Los Angles), which loosely covers the 12 step recovery programs, while taking a more laid back approach that is “less like a meeting and more like going to coffee afterwards,” according to [...]
Archive | April, 2009 
Serious Prevention Plan Necessary to Curb Rise in Youth Gambling
Amidst the growing popularity of the world series of poker and online gambling, teens are beginning to mimic and organize their own poker games and other betting activities in record numbers. According to one recent finding, US teens are at 2-3 times the risk of adults for developing a gambling addiction.
Nonetheless, schools and [...]
Results of Steroids Study Should Shock Some Parents
A recently published study by leading experts in steroids abuse at the Harvard Medical School found that people with conduct disorders are more likely to abuse anabolic steroids. The conduct disorders specifically cited in the study were “the juvenile version of antisocial disorder, and body image disorder is an unhealthy obsession with the size [...]
12 Step Family: Daily Meditation Al Anon
Alanon 12 Steps Family – Daily Meditation
In the official “One Day at a Time in Al Anon” (Al Anon Family Group Headquarters 22nd 1987 edition, NYC), on page 115, under the entry for April 24, it says: “Today’s Reminder – I had never admitted to myself that I was wrong or at fault in anything [...]
13th Annual Prism Awards to Honor Addiction and Recovery Entertainment
Tomorrow, April 23rd, the 13th Annual Prism Awards will take place in Beverly Hills, CA. For those unfamiliar with the Prism Awards, they are the equivalency of the Oscars and the Grammys but for outstanding achievement in the “accurate depiction of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and addiction, as well as mental health issues, [...]
Redmont Health Services Opens New Addiction Treatment Center in Boise
Redmont Health Services has opened a new outpatient treatment center in Boise. The center provides affordable and effective treatment options for adolescents and adults that includes assessments, individual, group and family counseling, and personal, individual treatment plans.
Jeff Morrell is to head the program. Morrell has more than 29 years of health care experience, with a [...]
Study Shows Nearly 10% of US’s Youth Addicted to Video Games
A study recently published in the scientific journal, Psychological Science, found that nearly 10 percent of youths between the ages of 8-18 are “pathological” players of video games using the standard previously established for pathological gambling. The study also concluded that more pathological gamers had been diagnosed with ADD and ADHD. Douglas Gentile, [...]
In the Rooms Launches Street Team Campaign
In the Rooms is a social networking site, and for those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, it describes a site similar to facebook where people can network and communicate online with each other. However, the difference is that In the Rooms is specifically designed to utilize the most cutting edge, web [...]
Supreme Court to Make Historical Decision on Schools’ War on Drugs
A ruling soon to come from the Supreme Court could change the way school board administrators handle student drug problems indefinitely. The case currently being reviewed, “Safford Unified School District vs. Redding,” will decide whether to uphold the current policy, which gives school board administrators the right to strip search students suspected of possessing [...]
C.A.R.E.S. Helps Foundation Aiding Recovering Addicts who can’t Afford Treatment
While the economy in the US continues to struggle, addiction is on the rise as people turn to consuming abusively to cope with the stresses of financial woes. Consequently, many people that are substance dependent may find themselves unable to afford the kind of treatment they so desperately seek to overcome their addiction. [...]
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