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Addiction & Recovery

Rhiannon12866

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17. It would be an industry that's ripe for fraud since so many people are desperate

Reply to Duppers (Reply #15)

Thu Jun 7, 2018, 07:20 AM

Jun 2018

John Oliver did a good thing with his expose, I agree that preying on desperate people is as bad as it gets, John mentioned that some of the people he spoke of had died. But it is a tough industry to regulate, even now. An old timer once told me that he drove a work colleague to a rehab in Florida - and when she came back, she looked as well as he'd ever seen her. So to celebrate, her husband bought champagne. I'm not kidding, some people just never get it.

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David Cassidy's Shocking Confession Before His Death: He Was Still Drinking and Never Had Dementia [View all] Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 OP

His father, Jack Cassidy, died with a drinking problem too lapfog_1 Jun 2018 #1

I've heard about his Dad - and we know that alcoholism has a genetic component Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #3

I have to say this is one of the saddestmost painful stories of denial I've ever heard stuffmatters Jun 2018 #2

It's a common symptom of the disease Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #4

You explain it so well. But still it made me gasp out loud. In all my own years in the rooms, stuffmatters Jun 2018 #13

I've never heard of that, either, but it's a complicated disease Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #16

"the sadness and the emptiness." Duppers Jun 2018 #5

I never saw him perform, but I did have a conversation with him once Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #6

Wow! And hats off to AA. Duppers Jun 2018 #7

I've been in AA since 2008. I've met a lot of miracles Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #8

Thank you. I'll watch. Duppers Jun 2018 #9

3 years and 2 months ago Kurt V. Jun 2018 #10

Whatever works is a good thing Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #11

thanks. Kurt V. Jun 2018 #12

Thank you... Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #14

50 years. wow. Kurt V. Jun 2018 #19

Wow, Florida seems to be the trash heap Duppers Jun 2018 #15

It would be an industry that's ripe for fraud since so many people are desperate Rhiannon12866 Jun 2018 #17

Alcoholic self treatment for Mental Illness irisblue Jun 2018 #18