Deep Sober

War stories are what we tell each other in AA, when describing our more colourful drinking experiences. You don’t have to …

It seems obvious to say now, but one of the biggest problems faced by alcoholics is the sheer ubiquity and social …

My friend at rehab, ‘C’, left today and I was bit bereft. Over the last month I’ve got to know her …

Don’t worry this isn’t really a post about golf as such, but about the notion of redefining fun. For addicts ‘fun’ …

‘Remember that we deal with alcohol, cunning, baffling, powerful’, p58, The Big Book. This is a line from the Big Book …

As you may know, it was Alcoholics Anonymous who pioneered the famous 12 Step program, which has since been copied and …

‘I always wanted to grow up to be a bank robber’, says Russell Manser candidly. ‘Where I come from the only …

Looking back on the last two years of chaos and decline, a life suddenly thrown into freefall, it’s tempting to pinpoint …

‘How much time you got up?’ is a question you may hear in meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, referring as it does …