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AlcoholicsCanDrinkSafelyAgain@yahoogroups.com, "lilianandmurdoch"
<LilianandMurdoch@a...> wrote:
>
>
> Lifelong sobriety is not recovery from alcoholism, as Alcoholics
> Anonymous claims. It's just a damage limitation exercise.
> Pursuing lifelong sobriety is not a sign of recovery from
> alcoholism, as Alcoholics Anonymous claims. Staying away from booze
> one day at a time is treating the symptom instead of the
fundamental
> underlying problem, and merely a damage limitation exercise.
>
> (PRWEB) October 12, 2004 -- Pursuing lifelong sobriety is not a
sign
> of recovery from alcoholism, as Alcoholics Anonymous claims.
Staying
> away from booze one day at a time is treating the symptom instead
of
> the fundamental underlying problem, and merely a damage limitation
> exercise.
>
> So say former alcoholics Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald from Ayrshire
> in Scotland. They argue that alcoholism is not an incurable and
> progressive illness or disease, as Alcoholics Anonymous would have
us
> believe, but rather a self-harming behaviour problem with its roots
> in childhood.
>
> Lilian says: "If an alcoholic is willing to identify and thoroughly
> address these issues from the past, then there is no reason why he
or
> she should not be able to consciously change their previously
> problematic behaviour patterns, even to the extent of being able to
> drink responsibly and safely again in a perfectly normal and
sociable
> manner. We know that this is possible, because we have done it
> ourselves. So have many other former alcoholics who have contacted
us
> from all over the world through our website
> www.alcoholicscandrinksafelyagain.com
>
> "Being able to drink responsibly again is important in itself for
an
> alcoholic, because it's not pleasant to be socially excluded for
any
> reason. But being able to drink normally and safely again is even
> more important because it is the outward and visible sign that an
> alcoholic has resolved his or her problems and is truly well again.
>
> "Nobody is incapable of changing their behaviour. And that is one
of
> the fundamental differences between Alcoholics Anonymous and us. AA
> disempowers people – the first of the Twelve Steps says: "We
admitted
> we were powerless over alcohol" – but we are fighting to give
> alcoholics that power back."
>
> Ten years ago the Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald had hit rock bottom,
> sleeping rough for two weeks on the streets of Cambridge, where a
> quarter of a century previously as an undergraduate Murdoch had
> received an honours degree in English Literature. They had moved
> there from Ayr with the idea of Murdoch doing research for a
> doctorate (PhD), but reverted to their old habits, started binge
> drinking, and were thrown out of their lodgings.
>
> After a fortnight, and when they were just about at the end of
their
> tether, two nurses on their way home after a Saturday night out
took
> pity on Lilian and Murdoch, bought them a cup of tea and found them
a
> place in a homeless hostel.
>
> The couple spent the next twelve months there getting to the roots
of
> their alcoholism. They tried AA one last time, before concluding
that
> it was a quasi-religious cult whose ideas on alcoholism were
> inadequate and outdated.
>
> Instead, by reading psychology, they decided that the causes of
their
> alcoholic behaviour lay in problems experienced during childhood.
And
> that once these problems were realised and addressed, there was no
> longer any need for escape through alcoholism, and they could even
> drink normally like other people again.
>
> Ten years after selling newspapers from a stand in Market Square,
> Cambridge, so that he and Lilian could get back on their feet
> financially, Murdoch now writes his own regular column in the local
> weekly paper and also runs his own public relations consultancy.
>
> And Lilian is so keen to pass on the benefits of their experience
to
> others who still have problems with alcohol, that the couple are
> building a website www.alcoholicscandrinksafelyagain.com to spread
> their message of hope.
>
> They also have a community group website at
> http://groups.msn.com/AlcoholicsCanDrinkSafelyAgain which includes
a
> chat room and message board where members can exchange thoughts,
> ideas and experiences.
>
> Lilian and Murdoch have completed the first draft of a book about
> their experiences, and are currently looking for a suitable
publisher.
>
> Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald's web links:
>
> Main website:
>
> http://www.alcoholicscandrinksafelyagain.com
>
> Community websites
>
> http://groups.msn.com/Alcoholicsdontneedtostayonthewagon
>
> http://groups.msn.com/AlcoholicsCanDrinkSafelyAgain
>
> http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AlcoholicsCanDrinkSafelyAgain/
>
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> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/10/prweb166719.htm
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> http://www.alcoholicscandrinksafelyagain.com/newpage17.html
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> http://www.alcoholicscandrinksafelyagain.com/newpage15.html
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> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/6/prweb130243.htm
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> http://www.pressbox.co.uk/Detailed/15000.html
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> http://www.pr-scotland.com/releases/040409-02.htm
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> http://www.alcoholicscandrinksafelyagain.com/newpage4.html
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> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/7/prweb144035.htm
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