6 Ways Recovering Alcoholics Deny Sex and Intimacy Issues

6 Ways Recovering Alcoholics Deny Sex and Intimacy Issues
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Sex addiction can creep into the recovering addict's life because it is a drug that can substitute for the previous addiction. The addict may “rationalize” this use of sex as a drug on the basis that it makes sense to rely on sex because it is a way to …
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Moyers '81 Writes New Book About Addiction and Recovery
Filed under: drug and alcohol recovery

Hazelden is, of course, the famed center for the treatment of alcohol and drug addiction. As the organization's website puts it, William “ 'carries the message' about addiction and recovery into the public arena, especially to policy makers and civic …
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Recovery Comic Christopher R. Porter

Check out Recovery Comic Christopher R. Porter at Recovery Comedy www.recoverycomedy.com. Clean and sober comedy for your next AA, NA or other 12 Step related event! http Read Christopher’s Interview: recoverycomedy.livejournal.com Follow Recovery Comedy on Twitter: www.twitter.com Like Recovery Comedy on Facebook: www.facebook.com When he was a kid the teachers would tell Christopher R. Porter’s mother “He is always in his own little world.” They were right. He was, and still is. Porter has trained with the world famous Groundlings improv group, which launched the careers of Will Farrell and Pee Wee Herman. He has performed stand-up in twenty-seven states and Canada, and regularly appears in Hollywood’s premier comedy clubs: The Laugh Factory, and the Comedy Store. Chris is a true friend of the recovery community. For the last twelve years he has produced and performed in hundreds of shows in over forty drug and alcohol recovery houses across Southern California, and has many letters of appreciation to show for it. No stranger to the world of addiction much of Christopher’s act centers on his fathers battle with alcoholism and his strange life of being brought up by a mother with a heavy gambling problem. A trained voice-over artist, Chris has appeared on Comedy Central and starred in the sci-fi movie spoof Babarellas. Some mornings you can catch him playing one of his many bizarre characters on the nationally syndicated radio show Mancow’s Morning Madhouse.