What To Do for an Alcoholic: Try to remain calm, unemotional, and factually honest in speaking about their behavior and its day-to-day consequences. Let the person with the problem know that you are reading and learning about alcohol and other drug abuse, attending Al-Anon, Nar-Anon, Alateen, and other support groups. Discuss the situation with someone you trust -- someone from the clergy, a

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Somewhere, somehow, at sometime something changed. We crossed over into an area where we lost control and spent the remainder of our active addiction "chasing" that illusive glow or level of euphoria. Little did we know that the feeling would forever elude us, or that we would fall deeper and deeper into despair. Hell on Earth. No matter how much we did, it wasn't enough. We would stop at

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Downtown Ain't No Disneyland The corner of 6th and Gladys Street in Downtown L.A. is much like any other in our teeming city. Lots of traffic and pedestrians, quite a bit of dirt and grime. But this corner is also very unique. A magical corner, almost. And somewhere at this intersection in both the richest and poorest city in the world is a story. Let's see if I can tell it. Skid Row is the