El Paso, TX, AddictsR.com was officially launched, unlike other sites of this genera, this site is written and presented from the viewpoint of a person who has battled with, failed,battled with again and failed again, and returned to the same battleground until he finally succeeded. He has been addicted to multiple substances and personified the term addictive behavior patterns.
The focus of the website is to offer assistance to the addict, the spouses, parents, friends of addicts on addiction recovery and illuminate some of the pitfalls found on the road to sobriety. Within the pages of the website are e-books, articles from various sources, audio recordings and video presentations offered for sale, there are also newsletters and other free resources offered as well. The author has included three separate assessments for the reader's use only. There is no information of any kind gathered from these assessments. For the newsletter "High-n-Dry"
The reason this website was created is that most of the webs presently on the net are focused on programs and treatment milieu's, the author felt as though the addict,families, and friends were being shortchanged in this continuum therefore he decided to reach out again to these people through the website.
AddictsR came into being during a sermon focused on service to others, reaching out to others has been a mainstay of the authors life for the past 30 years that he has been in recovery. The sermon convinces him to continue to reach out, but this time to a larger audience, that being the www. The name AddictsR was chosen because addicts are people, and as people we make mistakes. To quote the author, "When we screw up what we need is a hand up, not a hand out."
AddictsR is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year at www.AddictsR.com. You are invited to come and look, there is a page titled "Contact" that has a form you can fill in to reach him and leave comments about the site. It is the first venture for this author so let him know what you think. If you use the form, you will get a canned response acknowledging the receipt, then you will get a response from the author, might take a little time, but you will get a response.
