The Underground Publication Steps For Recovery

(This Article Appeared in the Volume 18, Issue 2 edition of Steps For Recovery)

This isn’t a mainstream publication. You won’t find it at Seven Eleven, in grocery stores, at the library or in the bookstores. It is not meant to be everywhere. We are underground. You will find us at meetings and in places where people are looking for help to combat their addictions.

We need your help to get this publication into the hands of those that need it. We have filing cabinets filled with letters thanking us for the information that has connected with those seeking a better - addiction free life. When they need information we need all of you to put this newspaper in front of them. Leave it behind as a subtle suggestion. You never know when they might pick it up and read something that will connect at a time when they are open to change.

The newspaper can be recycled. It can be passed around to those that want to read the articles and many of them never lose their relevance. Once you have read it, don’t throw it away, pass it on. Keep this information being passed throughout the community.

I would like to enlist all of your help for our project to eradicate addiction. We would like to publish this newspaper in 60 cities throughout America. If you know of someone that would be a great publisher in Southern California, please get them in contact with us. We would like to have 10 editions in the Southern California area first and then we want to reach out to Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

The purpose of the Steps publication is to provide information to those in recovery so that they stay the course and to help those get on the path to recovery that have become open to making a change.

Additionally, we would like to video tape a million stories of addiction that we can post on-line for kids to be able to understand fully the choice they are making when they choose a life of addiction. We want you to tell them first hand why they shouldn’t embark upon the path.

We are also working on the demand side of addiction by lobbying for Congress, the President and local government officials to seal the border and curtail the amount of drugs coming into America.

Our plan also calls for a number of PSAs about addiction to help kids make positive choices. We plan on raising money to get those PSAs aired.

I know how many people roll their eyes when we say the words: Eradicate Addiction. Nobody expects that addiction will disappear overnight. The fact is that if we are able to have any effect at all our efforts will have been worth the effort.

We can’t do it alone. We need your help.