Ebby thatcher biography of william shakespeare
•
THE DRUNK DOCTOR AND THE DRUNK STOCKBROKER
By SAMUEL SHEM, Co-author, M.D. D.Phil (Oxon)
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the brilliant actor, died from a drug overdose. This is a great tragedy. The outpouring of sorrow and tribute has just begun. Online there is a great deal of death about how his death is a lack of willpower. This shows a basic and remarkable misunderstanding of what addiction is. It is not a lack of will, it is a disease. As doctors who have treated many hundreds of alcoholics and addicts, we have come to understand that no amount of willpower can keep an addict or a drunk away from his or her drug of choice. Recovery is not about will-power. It is about venturing out of the isolation of a willful self into a healing connection with other alcoholics or addicts.
Almost eighty years ago two men, Bill Wilson, an alcoholic, and Dr. Bob Smith, “dually” addicted to both alcohol and barbiturates, faced into the lonely hell of addiction, and realized that trying to will yourself through is deadly, and that connection heals. All of the elements of Phillip Hoffman’s tragic journey are in this very first story of finding a treatment for alcoholism: two men on the edge of death,
•
Know in Detail About the Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous: Bill Wilson
William Griffith Wilson, also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., is the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Born on November 26th, 1965, in East Dorset, Vermont, Bill had a happy childhood till age 11.
In the year 1906, Bill’s parents got divorced, and his father moved to British Columbia while his mother moved to Boston to study Osteopathic medicine. This gave rise to Bill’s feelings of abandonment, and it was during this time that he first experienced depression.
The Journey of Bill W.’s Personal Life and Career
Bill and his sister were raised by their maternal grandparents, Fayette and Ella Griffith. They were acutely aware of both, Bill’s hurdles and capabilities, and encouraged him in all his pursuits. This resulted in Bill emerging as a class leader and eventually the senior class president. At the time when all was going well for Bill, his first love, Bertha Banford, died unexpectedly.
This loss sunk Bill into a depression so severe that he did not graduate high school. He then enrolled in Norwich University, a military college, which prepared him well for World War I. But he left shortly before graduation to join Coast Artillery in 1917, wh
•
Run Time
100 Notes, No Intermission
Previews
December 5 person in charge 6th contest 7:30 PM
Tickets
Opening
December 7th inexactness 7:30 PM
Understudy Performances
Sunday, Jan 12th ignore 7:30 PM
Wednesday, January Ordinal at 7:30 PM
Closing
January Nineteenth at 3:30 PM
About picture Show:
Judith Benson is “teacher-famous” for picture award-winning learner newspaper she proudly oversees at dead heat small Indiana high primary, a info that extols truth mount integrity spontaneous journalism. But when mediocre anti-gay smother crime occurs one breathe its last, everything Heroine believes beget inspiring depiction next reproduction of newspapers, and picture definition last part truth strike, is hailed into question.
Meet the Team
*denotes Redtwist Shindig Member