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SOS Newsletter
Spring-2010

  
S O S (Secular Organizations for Sobriety / Save Our Selves)
 Celebrates its
2 5 th A N N I V E R S A R Y ! ! !
All Day Saturday April 24, 2010 at the 3rd annual Festival of Recovery
Center for Inquiry / Los Angeles
4773 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90027
Free Event! Free Lunch! Free Parking!
All Day -- Doors open at 8:30 AM
Email or phone SOS sos@cfiwest.org  /  (323)-666-4295 for Info

Another ruling on AA
 Appeals court says requirement to
attend AA unconstitutional

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Press Release
 Religiosity and participation in mutual-aid support groups for addiction
Randolph G. Atkins, Jr., Ph.D. and James E. Hawdon, Ph.D.
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Volume 33, Issue 3, October 2007, Pages 321-331
Faith Based Treatment Progarms
Are you aware of instances where individuals attended alcohol/drug treatment programs run by faith-based
organizations and found these organizations were trying to proselytize to them rather than help them end their addiction? If
so, please contact Jim Christopher at sos@cfi-west.org. He is collecting stories from people who have gone to faith-based
organizations that receive federal funding for their addiction recovery programs. Specifically, he is looking for stories that
demonstrate how religious organizations that receive government funding are sometimes just as interested in converting individuals
to their religion as they are helping them get sober.
SOS@CFIWest.org Attn: James Christopher

Sobriety without God
Religion often plays a big role in the 12 steps to sobriety offered by Alcoholics Anonymous. But some people looking to overcome addiction aren't comfortable with AA's religious overtones. Alex Cohen meets Stephen Rafferty, who found sobriety without God in a group called SOS, Save our Selves. Bill then discusses the role of spirituality in the treatment of addiction with Mark Willenbring of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Pod-Cast- NPR
Week End America
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/index_20060729.html

 

 

 

 

 

AA Articles
The press and other news media have for years left AA alone
or reported only slanted bias positive articles showing only the good side of AA
and ignoring the rest.


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