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- From: ahelmers@umiami.ir.miami.edu
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- Subject: Re: Potheads of the 70's Raising Kids
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.222804.14378@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:28:04 EST
- References: <1993Jan19.210640.4653@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> <day_kevran-190193144434@130.252.108.182> <1993Jan22.020602.531435@locus.com> <1jnu3cINN523@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1jnu3cINN523@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, lauraf@classy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Laura Floom) writes:
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- >
- > There is some truth in what you are saying but only if the person has an
- > addictive personality. I knew someone who had a major problem with coke.
- > I heard stories from te first (of several) rehabs she went thru. Basically,
- > the patients were strongly encouraged to give up all other drugs (alcohol
- > being the biggie) because it is common of addictive personalities to trade
- > one drug for another.
-
- >They didnt particarly address tabacco, so that by the
- > end of the rehab most of the people were practically chain smokers. I have
- > heard that most AA meetings are one big cloud of smoke.
-
- I can vouch for smoking among recovering addicts/alcoholics. When one of my
- sisters was doing inpatient rehab, it was truly astonishing to notice that
- EVERY patient was an intense smoker. And I remember going to her
- one-year-of-sobriety AA meeting...I was a couple of months pregnant, the
- meeting was held in one of those windowless meeting halls and I didn't make it
- longer than a few minutes. I was worried the fetus wasn't getting any
- oxygen--I know *I* sure wasn't!
-
- My husband has always wondered how come smoking is considered acceptable for a
- recovering addict/alcoholic when they go the extreme of refusing to take an
- aspirin, or to have novacaine for a tooth filling (true cases). But meanwhile
- they are puffing away like chimneys.
-
- Ann Helmers
- well, it started out as relevant to the discussion...
-