What is AA?

Over 2,000,000 individuals make up the Alcohol Anonymous' informal society - but what exactly is AA and how could the fellowship help you?  Check out http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/geninfo/02whatis.htm to read about AA, how it developed, how it functions, view AAs informative literature section and learn how AA can help you or your loved one to turn their lives around and live in sobriety without the constraints of an alcohol dependency.

Drugs of Addiction: Biological, Medical, Legal and Ethical Aspects

http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/scienceseminars/drugs/treatment.html

 

Please click in the above link to read an article written by Prof David Nutt (Professor of Psychopharmacology), in this article Prof Nutt discusses the biological, medical, legal and ethical aspects of treatment of addictions and makes suggestions around the shift in perspective from considering addictions as a moral disorder to a chronic illness, requiring treatment such as chronic medical disorders (for example diabetes). This article touches on the bigger picture and the implications regarding criminality and the reduction of drug related social and medical issues that stem from effective treatment.

What can we learn?...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/aled_alcohol_morph.shtml

What can we learn from experiments such as the one currently being conducted by Radio 1 (see above link)?  How many people will pay attention to such an accessible study into the affects of alcohol and what do you think?