It’s not about being sponsored—its about sponsoring others that is a predictor for permanent recovery

It’s not about being sponsored—its about sponsoring others that is a predictor for permanent recovery from Big Book Sponsorship GNN Note – Need help? Wanna talk? – Info@GospelNewsNetwork.org – leave us your phone number and we’ll call you back right away / END A Baltimore, Maryland study of 500 former and current heroin and cocaine injection drug users over the course of one year indicated having an AA/NA sponsor was not correlated with any improvement in sustained abstinence rates than a non-sponsored group (Crape 2001:291). However, being a sponsor was…

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US Overdose Deaths Reach New Record As Fentanyl/Meth Use Soars

US Overdose Deaths Reach New Record As Fentanyl/Meth Use Soars by Tyler Durden for Zero Hedge GNN Note – If you need help, wanna talk – Info@GospelNewsNetwork.org / END Drug overdose deaths reached another record last year, peaking at just under 108,000, according to new data published by the CDC. The increase of nearly 15% followed a much steeper rise of almost 30% in 2020, continuing a depressing but hardly surprising trend: the number of drug overdose deaths has increased every year but 2018 since the 1970s. A growing share…

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Big Book’s Answer to Relapse Prevention

Big Book’s Answer to Relapse Prevention from Big Book Sponsorship Part 1 Click Here >>> If this selfishness-self-centeredness continues to manifest in an alcoholic’s life — EVEN IN SOMEONE WHO IS NOT DRINKING AND CONTINUES TO ATTEND MEETINGS – and the ego is not smashed and re-smashed by continuous application of all twelve steps, the sober (or “just not drinking”) alcoholic is sure to drink again eventually… or even worse, continue to live miserably being “undrunk” (better known as a “dry drunk”). This is why we see people with 10…

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