The crazy lady strikes again for Monday, July 17, 2006

I thought of this concept only after I'd written my last entry. Oh, brother. Most addiction centers - particularly the ones which seemingly sprang up like weeds during the recovery fad in the late 1980s and early 1990s - use something called the Minnesota Model. It's called the Minnesota Model because it seems to have been developed at Hazelden in Minnesota. Treatment centers using this model rely heavily on 12-step philosopies and group meetings for their patients. Inpatients at these centers,... Sign in to see full entry.

Just before starting this blog entry, I checked the "view new comments" link on my Write page. (Look at the top of your Blogit window. You'll see the word Write near the top. Click on that word, and you'll be taken to the page listing all your blogs, if you wrote any. At the bottom of that page, there is a hyperlink which says "view new comments." That's what I'm referring to when I talk about that link.) I noticed that Jemmie211 (I've mentioned this Blogit member in one of the entries I wrote... Sign in to see full entry.

Sometimes, it happens that someone in a 12-step group is going to do (or perhaps has already done) something ill-advised, or perhaps even relapse into his or her former addictive behavior patterns. The first instinct of many of us is to want to intervene in that person's life, perhaps lovingly confronting the 12-step member in question and presenting a plan of action so that this person can recover or develop healthy ways of relating to the world again. This worthy goal - intervening in the life... Sign in to see full entry.

AA and Al-Anon/Alateen (Alateen is the division of Al-Anon geared toward teens) have what they call Conference-Approved Literature. This is literature actually produced by anonymous members of Al-Anon and AA, respectively. For example, the book Alcoholics Anonymous (called the Big Book by all 12-steppers) is the official text of AA. Although Bill Wilson, the co-founder of AA, authored most of the book (the stories at the end of the book are authored by the alcoholics who lived those stories),... Sign in to see full entry.