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Important Announcement..!
Dear friends,
Soberbonesxxx.com has been using this free webhosting site Yahoo geocities.com as a vehicle to learn and experiment with website building and its maintenance. This has been a wonderful way to start a recovery website and learn at a pace coherent to my schedule of late! Unfortunately, geocities.com will be closing their hosting services later this year and www.geocities.com/soberbonesxxx/ will be moving to another webhosting service.
So what does this mean?
This is a good thing in many ways: 1st, we will no longer have to contend with the advertisement frame on the right side of your screen. Many of you have found ways to avoid this annoyance through script blocking (a wonderful "add on" feature in FireFox browsers). IE-7 & IE-8 users among other browser programs may simply close this frame and continue to view this site with minimal distraction from the ad links remaining scroll bar. This changes the look and speed of our site, primarily in its width measured in pixels; also noting, the ad's are not of our choosing either; though they may be relevant, they are randomly selected through the use of search engine spiders, or crawlers and other technical means of advertising on the world wide web (WWW). Many of which are not North Carolina based and also may not be personally recommended either.
The next good thing in this change; (change is good), is that, with the use of a reliable, faster and more searchable hosting provider; we will be available to a much broader audience and this is expanding upon the principles of the very existence of this website. That principle being, "one alcoholic helping another alcoholic to stay sober one day at a time."
When will this change occur?
As the closing time for geocities nears (estimated to be at the end of summer 2009), we have been researching web host's to determine the best and most affordable means of bringing the most relevant and interesting news, advice and opinion on addiction recovery and it's varied relationship's to local North Carolina event's, as-well-as, sober motorcycle clubs and their respective news and events. Research has shown we most likely will be found when searched for as soberbonesxxx.com and this domain will continue as a regular website with minimal, if any, distraction from the focal point intended.
Whether you are new here, or a familiar visitor, we will be monitoring and listening to your advice and questions as you give them to us. Updates will be prominently posted for future plans and our new location. As always, you may contact us by clicking on our contact page and send us your relevant questions, concerns or advice. Your feedback is extremely important to us and greatly appreciated. When more substantial information is known, we will post it here immediately.
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Alcohol Use Associated With Suicide, Especially in Minorities
By KRISTINA FIORE
MedPage Today Staff Writer
June 19, 2009
Nearly One-Quarter of Suicides in New Study Linked to Alcohol Intoxication
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Alcohol has long been a known risk factor in suicide, said Dr. Eric Caine, chair of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, N.Y.
Alcohol plays a significant role in suicide, especially among Hispanics and American Indian and Alaska Natives, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Male Suicides Had Higher Blood Alcohol
"If you're depressed it makes your depression worse," Dr. Caine said, "and if you're not depressed you may become depressed."
Grant will fund programs, help those in recovery
Tribal group gets $5M to battle alcoholism
Tribal group gets $5M to battle alcoholism
DIANE COCHRAN Of The Billings
Montana Gazette Staff
Posted: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:35 am | Comments
A $5 million grant from the federal government will help American Indian tribes in Montana and Wyoming curb alcohol abuse among their members.
The five-year award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will fund programs to reduce underage drinking and create sober communities for recovering alcoholics.
The Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council announced Monday that it received the grant, which began July 1.
Serious problem
Alcohol abuse is a continuing and serious problem in American Indian communities, said Gordon Belcourt, the council's executive director.
"Part of the problem is people are using alcohol and drugs to escape," Belcourt said.
The future can seem grim to young American Indians living on reservations with high rates of unemployment and substance abuse, he said.
As many as 13 percent of American Indians are dependent on alcohol, according to the council's statistics. That is more than three times the rate of alcoholism in the general population.
The Tribal Leaders Council will distribute the grant money to its 11 member tribes as prevention programs are developed.
Some of the money will help create sober communities, or housing developments and social networks that forbid alcohol.
"One of the biggest problems we have with people in recovery is their whole social world is now a danger to them," said Craig Love, a consultant who helped the Tribal Leaders Council secure the grant.
Cultural activities
It will also fund efforts to steer children and teenagers away from alcohol, including cultural activities and programs that encourage kids to learn traditional ways from elders.
"We want to create some heroes and mythology for our young people," Belcourt said.
Members of the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council include the Blackfeet, Chippewa Cree, Crow, Eastern Shoshone, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck, Little Shell, Northern Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne, and Salish and Kootenai tribes.
In addition to its community-level prevention work, the organization plans to open a drug and alcohol treatment center in Sheridan, Wyo., later this year.
The Inter-Tribal Wellness Center would treat as many as 100 American Indians a year for alcohol and drug dependency.
Contact Diane Cochran at [email protected] or 657-1287.
Posted in Montana on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:35 am Updated: 12:38 am.
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