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12 Step Meeting Makers Make It! Once you have completed your in-patient addiction treatment at English Mountain Recovery your recovery program is not over. Recovery is a life long event but completed one day at a time. Over the years we have seen that our most successful clients commit to and attend 12 step meetings on a regular basis. The first thing you will want to do when you return home from treatment, is to go online and check out the available 12 step meetings in your area. Bookmark that page, or better yet print it out. Most AA's pre-schedule their meetings conveniently around work or school schedules. Get a Home-Group Meeting People who have long term sobriety more thank likely are a member of a home-group. A home-group is a meeting you can join and should attend on a very regular basis. Overtime this group will become like family to you, as you get to know people on a personal level. I have attended a 12 step noon meeting for as long as I can remember. In the beginni...

When we stop drinking alcohol or using drugs we can easily, without warning - replace that addiction with sugar. Satisfying ourselves with a little sugar instead of our previous addiction is easy to justify. The problem is that alcohol and drug addiction share common characteristics with how the body reacts to sugar. How Does Sugar Affect the Brain? Web MD wrote: Sugar gives you a rush, messes with your mind, and always leaves you wanting more - and now researchers are calling for the government to regulate the sweet stuff like a drug. Sounds pretty much just like our former addiction. Is sugar worse for you than, say, cocaine? According to a 2012 article in the journal Nature, it's a toxic substance that should be regulated like tobacco and alcohol. Researchers point to studies that show that too much sugar (both in the form of natural sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup) not only makes us fat, it also wreaks havoc on our liver, mucks up our metabolism, impairs brain function, ...