TheFix.com is a new site targeting the more than 40 million Americans who are recovering from drug and/or alcohol addiction. It features Ask-An-Expert
videos, news, editorials and thorough
reviews of rehab facilities based on Zagat's system.
Founded by Maer Roshan, one of the founders of Radar Magazine.
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posted by zarq
on Apr 7, 2011 -
36 comments
... it's terribly important for veterans to feel they are continuing a mission that held them together through the violence and stress of war. "PTSD carries a stigma, that you're broken and wounded," said Yount, "And many guys have guilt for not still being in the fight. The idea of Paws for Purple Hearts is you can be part of the war effort while you're getting treatment."
posted by Joe Beese
on Nov 13, 2010 -
17 comments
Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works. "There is evidence that a big part of AA’s effectiveness may have nothing to do with the actual (12) steps. It may derive from something more fundamental: the power of the group. The importance of this is reflected by the fact that the more deeply AA members commit to the group, rather than just the program, the better they fare."
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posted by netbros
on Jul 6, 2010 -
145 comments
On August 16, 2008, a small plane carrying a young married couple and their flight instructor crashed in the Arizona desert. Doug Kinneard, the instructor, was killed in the crash; Stephanie and Christian Nielson survived, both severely burned. Prior to the crash, Stephanie's weblog, the NieNie Dialogues,
"had attracted a small but ardent following, thanks to its upbeat dispatches about marriage, home décor, entertaining and the art of raising four children ages 6 and younger." After the crash, with burns on over 80% of her body, she spent two months in a medically induced coma. One month later, she was
released from the hospital (link to Stephanie's sister's blog); one month after that, she
began blogging again. Stephanie's posts since then have chronicled her
gradual recovery, her re-integration into
her family, her
love and gratitude for her husband, and, finally, on the one-year anniversary of the plane crash,
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posted by granted
on Aug 16, 2009 -
61 comments
Shantaram is the story of a violent man's search for the man of peace within himself.
Gregory David Roberts, clip 1,
clip 2,
3 and
4, is an ex-junkie, former gun runner; drugs, forged passports and black market currency dealer; was a member of the Bombay Mafia and close with a Mafia don there; acted in Bollywood movies; fought with the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan; imprisoned in an Australian maximum security prison with a 19 year sentence and escaped to the Bombay slums, where he set up a free clinic. His
semi-autobiography is called Shantaram, which means man pf peace.
Review on Shunya. His
website.
Movie due out in 2009.
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posted by nickyskye
on Oct 21, 2008 -
30 comments
Juststolen.net "was created by police officers to provide the best possible asset tracking and property recovery services in the world. JustStolen.net is an innovative tool designed to easily register assets in order to facilitate their recovery if they are lost or stolen. JustStolen.net joins forces with
online auctions to help identify stolen property."
posted by tristeza
on Dec 6, 2007 -
7 comments
In 1971 Delancey Street began with four residents, a thousand dollar loan, and a dream to develop a new model to turn around the lives of substance abusers, former felons, and others who have hit bottom by empowering the people with the problems to become their own solution. With no professionals, no government funding, and at no charge to the clients, Delancey Street Foundation has rehabilitated and provided job skills to thousands of former drug addicts and criminals. They have a successful
moving company, a well loved (although not necessarily
critically acclaimed) restaurant, a thriving
Christmas tree business, and a
partnership with the local state university.
Founded in the heady radical days of the
early 70s, they've had a few bumps along the way,
(cofounder John Maher died of a drug overdose) but they are one of the most well respected models for rehabilitation in
the world. In recent news, San Francisco mayor
Gavin Newsom has been spending a lot of time there.
posted by serazin
on Feb 25, 2007 -
24 comments
Meet Becca Stevens, Episcopal priest,
Tennessean of the year,
Nashvillian of the year,
author, podcaster and wife of an equally cool
husband. In addition to tending her flock and raising a family, the Rev. Becca runs
Magdalene House, a residential program for
women overcoming lives of addiction and prostitution that has an 87% success rate. Women in the program work at
Thistle Farms, making all natural lotions, balms and bath products that put
Mary Kaye to shame.
posted by Biblio
on Apr 10, 2006 -
8 comments
Everyone is (probably) familiar with
Something Awful. However, you may not be familiar with their hosting company - located in a New Orleans office building on Poydras in the CBD... but have you noticed that SA hasn't gone blank yet? It's because
Zipa, and
directNIC upstairs have the whole data center disaster contingency thing on
lockdown.
Blog and
pictures from the directNIC guys are regularly updated. Color me impressed.
posted by kuperman
on Aug 31, 2005 -
69 comments
Survivors Healed, but Not Whole "But hearing the story of how Patty crawled out of that room, dutifully dragging her behemoth purse (it weighed a ton, it seemed, with enough odds and ends to supply an army), and this as her colleagues were stripping off their clothes and lapping up water off the floor in a desperate struggle to escape the terrible heat and stay alive -- that was funny.
A half-year after the attack, the reconstruction of the Pentagon is racing along, with crews repairing the broken facade and ready to start roof work today, the six-month anniversary. Harder to mend are the souls of those who were there Sept. 11."
posted by owillis
on Mar 11, 2002 -
2 comments
