Recovery

BBC News – David Cameron's daughter Nancy left behind at pub.

Good job he’s a Tory otherwise Social Services would have been round!

A “Brave New World” of vaccines and genetic sequencing.

Is the future of drugs safe and non-addictive? | Science | The Guardian.

A member of Alcoholics Anonymous once sent columnist Ann Landers the following:

We drank for happiness and became unhappy.
We drank for joy and became miserable.
We drank for sociability and became argumentative.
We drank for sophistication and became obnoxious.
We drank for friendship and made enemies.
We drank for sleep and awakened without rest.
We drank for strength and felt weak.
We drank “medicinally” and acquired health problems.
We drank for relaxation and got the shakes.
We drank for bravery and became afraid.
We drank for confidence and became doubtful.
We drank to make conversation easier and slurred our speech.
We drank to feel heavenly and ended up feeling like hell.
We drank to forget and were forever haunted.
We drank for freedom and became slaves.
We drank to erase problems and saw them multiply.
We drank to cope with life and invited death.

After reading the letter and posting it in her column, Ann Landers made this comment:

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

BBC News – Cannabis use 'raises psychosis risk' – study.

Celebrated in Style with a big Pot of Häagen-Dazs

Do you have to believe in a “God” to get sober?
I certainly struggled with that question to start with. It began with that I just had accept “I wasn’t god”.

Here’s Frank Turners Anthem for Atheists.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbUCzUk84fE

BBC News – Liver disease epidemic warning in North East.

“The earlier the age at which children drink, and the more they drink, the greater the chance of developing serious liver disease in adult life.

“Many patients are now presenting with terminal liver disease in their late 20s and early 30s.”

I’m definitely going to hell, but I’ll have all the best stories to tell.
(Frank Turner – The Ballad Of Me And My Friends)