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...individual. But direct human connection is an important key to healthy recovery." Going public with declarations that you're on the wagon, as Downey did in Vanity Fair and other publications, doesn't help. The feeling that your struggle is on full public view adds stress that can help trigger a relapse. That's one reason, says Moyer, that the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program and others like it counsel against self-disclosure to the media...
...even when an addict has been clean for a long time, says Leshner, the addictive brain has been permanently primed for relapse. One common trigger for returning to drugs is stress, which can send the recovering addict back to a proven stress reliever. Another is contact with people, places and things associated with drugs--cues that bring up dormant memory circuits laid down during active addiction and thus reawaken craving...
...Democrats to investigate "voting irregularities" such as the failure to count all overseas military ballots and the differing standards of the manual recounts. But if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects the Bush petition this week, all eyes will be back on the man with his finger on the constitutional trigger...
...laughed as I read Lopez's piece. it just reinforces my opinion that the N.R.A. has a healthy portion of full-fledged irresponsible, disrespectful (of the law), trigger-happy morons who will shoot at anything that moves and then gripe because they think their rights have been violated by law-enforcement officers. That's pathetic! KRISTI RICHTER Chicago
...Gore wants to help. The veep is gearing up for a major flack-and-lawyer assault against the legislature if it pulls the trigger on a special session and anoints Bush, Gore campers say. Part of that's preemptive, and already under way - a few ordered-up grassroots protests, an "orange ribbon" campaign on the ground in Florida, and a lot of loud talk from Warren Christopher, Joe Lieberman and Gore himself about how the people of Florida wouldn't stand for it. On "60 Minutes" Sunday night, Gore hit it again: "I can't imagine they would do that...