The Good Works Award

We here at The Addicts Attic we be starting a new page and feature at our site called

The Good Works Award.

This award will be presented to those who are doing something special in the tragic world of addiction. If chosen, their story will be featured on our site for the time being and in the near future we will be working on a way to present them with a small gift as well.

If you know someone who deserves to receive the good works award , please contact me here and I will have a look at their story.

Or if you would like to donate a gift please contact me here and I will coordinate this with you.

The Good Works Award for March goes to

'A Place Called Home'.

A Place Called Home (APCH) is a dynamic youth center located in South Central Los Angeles. APCH provides at-risk youth with a secure, positive family environment where they can regain hope and belief, earn trust and self-respect and learn skills to lead to a productive lifestyle free of the gangs, drugs and poverty that surround them. We help inner city youth find their dreams through educational enrichment. APCH provides educational programs, counseling, mentoring, music, dance and art classes. We also have a recreation and athletic department. One on one attention is at the heart of all APCH programs and activities.

Visit the site today!


The very first Good Works Award goes to Richard Mansfield (aka Gypsy) and his site S-f-f-S.

The site is an NFP raising $ to give grants to parents raising kids from Meth broken homes.

A quote from the site:
"The 'S f f S' mandate is easily defined:

Should we receive a substantiated request to "HELP" aid a family raising a child suffering the turmoil of displacement from METHAMPHETAMINE RELATED CRISIS, so long as the child is in the custody of RESPONSIBLE, DRUG FREE ADULTS, WE'LL DO OUR BEST TO HELP."

Visit the site today!

Vital Facts About Our Purpose And Victories To Remember

Two thoughts have been brought to my attention on the subject of ‘why are we here’. The first comes from the insight of early philosophy, spirituality, and religious studies and the second from today’s positive psychology awareness. #1 says our key purpose is to live a first-rate life by worshiping whatever God is to us and treating others as we would ourselves. #2 says our reason for being is to be truly happy. However, there is a third thought; growing, learning, and finding out how to be truthfully victoriuos in our lives or battles with addiction and how we are living our life to fulfill that idea.

Vital facts about our purpose to remember:

1. Our most important ‘reason for being’ is to be victorious, but frequently our lives are a series of steps to first define accomplishment and secondly to determine how to be victorious, usually by a painful trial and error system, especially with an addiction. The majority of the uncertainty has to do with discovering what our true purpose really is. And then the test is deciding how to live our life for the greatest results. Staying focused on that main concern without getting sideswiped with all the humorous distractions, can easily lead us off the path.

2. There is no ignoring the practice of deciding how our own achievements compare with others, but trying to “keep up with the Jones’s” seems to never stop. At some point we all have to discover our own personal meaning of what victory really is. Eventually, victory, just like joy, turns out to be what you gain from doing what you have to get there. As with anything else that means something, we’re the only one who knows if we truly have it our not; it is or it isn’t and there’s truly is no in between that someone else can decide for you.

3. The policy for victory in life has already been laid out and a main struggle in life is to find out what these policies are. Using the right policies correctly leads to victory, and the opposite leads to everything else. It’s actually that simple, but we can misuse a lot of precious time by trying to make up our own rules or throw away even more time by not learning from our mess-ups and continuing them. However, the way to recognize what something truly is, is to know what it truly isn’t first. The pathway, especially to recovery, can be long, full of twists and turns, full of obstacles and full of dead ends for some of us. And naturally our pride or ego, regularly keeps us from seeing the genuine reality. More times than not we have wrong and partial perceptions, viewpoints, thinking and conclusions which we hardly ever want to face up to or admit to.

4. Becoming optimistic, cheerful and hopeful about victory is essential in actually achieving it, but staying this way all the time is easier said than done, especially if you have an addiction. Repeatedly, you have to be more conscious of your own thinking and emotions and begin catching yourself when you are thinking and feeling faint hints of disapproval and doubts. These could be making you unable to achieve your victory, whatever it is. Turning these faint negative feelings into a positive thing can be a slow and agonizing process.

No doubt, there are degrees of victory, but when these facts are known, accepted and used in your life, doubts start to dissolve.

Vital tips on how to use these facts in order to be more victorious:

1. Remember what it is that you eventually want out of your life (ask why until there’s nowhere for the answer to hide), or what you’re doing to get there, until it becomes apparent without a doubt. Then think about how victorious you are by knowing what victory really is to you, what progress you’re making getting there, and how this all makes you feel.

2. Get yourself moving away from the accepted mentality of comparing yourself to others and begin focusing on what it takes to better yourself to move closer to where you want to be and not where you are. Remember to be grateful for any forward movement you make, no matter how tiny.

3. Realize the worth of slowing down and noticing the tie between what you now think your purpose is, what you’re doing now to fulfill that, and the real outcome you’re getting. Do this in a totally open, truthful and sincere way. Connect to your sober mind and emotions to notice the existence and impact of faint negativity.

4. Always remember where the potential and opportunity for being victorious comes from and constantly grow your humble admiration of this ultimate truth that makes the whole thing possible.

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Are You Listening to Your Body When Facing Relapse Or Addiction?

Are you running around taking care of other people and neglecting yourself?

Are you swamped with too much work and pressure to get things done?

Do you collapse at night wondering if there will ever be enough time?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions, then you can be sure that you need to take better care of your physical self. You’ll never have the time or energy for what you need if you don’t.

When you rush around doing things or taking care of other people, you can be sure that you have lost your sense of self. When you lose your sense of self, you most probably stop listening to your body.

Health issues and weight concerns and addiction are always a sign of not listening to your self. Your body is sending warning signals to you.

Relapse, weight gain or loss, tiredness, digestion problems, and aches and pains are all warning signals. Are you listening to your body?

A heart attack or relapse are two examples of extreme warning signals that things are not working properly. There are many more extreme examples. All of them are indications of not listening to your body.

Do you want to change your consciousness in order to have a healthier, clean and sober you? Do you want to regain a sense of self? Do you want to listen to your body and keep yourself healthy and happy for as long as possible and to be clean and sober?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you are probably wondering, how do I change my behavior? You have probably tried many things and none of them have worked.

The first step in change is awareness of a problem. Your awareness has now been raised.

The second step is motivating yourself to change. Look back at your life when you were in the worst possible place, if you do not regain a sense of self, and start listening to your body, you’ll be there again. Addicts are more motivated by the desire to avoid pain than to gain pleasure, so your imagination will be an important part of getting you on a healthier path and keeping you on that path.

Just keep imagining yourself with an extreme illness or at rock bottom because you didn’t listen to your body, and you will have a better chance of paying attention.

The third step is creating a clear vision of what you want to be doing. Talk to your clean and sober friends, investigate what path you want be on and don’t be afraid to ask for help.

The fourth step is getting support for your change process if doing it on your own is not bringing about the results you desire. Again, don’t be afraid to reach out to your support system and if you don’t have one find one at your local AA or NA meeting.

When you receive loving support from another human being, you are more able to internalize that support, and then give it to yourself.

Detox With A Patch For Addicts And Others

Reflexologists refer to the foot as the "second heart" because it has over 60 meridian acupressure points that are the reflective zones of our major internal organs. There are products named cleanse patchs that are effective for detox.

Simply wearing a patch on the sole affects all meridian points. As gravity and our body's own normal defense move toxins away from vital organs, our feet become the "storage place" for toxins. The patch is an aid to capture and remove these toxins.

You put one patch on each foot before going to bed for five nights. Everyone is different. People that are not addicts get nearly all the toxins out of their system by the 5th day. Addicts have more toxins built up their system and it will take longer. You will know if you should continue after the 5th day if the patches are still very dark. This means that there are still a lot of toxins in your system and you will benefit greatly by continuing to use them.

In extreme cases (like addicts), some people will need to 15 days or more. Once you complete your first cleanse and remove most of the toxins from your system, a maintenance is recommended. Look for good quality patches said that are said to be much more effective than other cheap detox patches out there. A inferior product needs the customers to wear the patches for 4-6 weeks straight before the patches start to lighten (if they get lighter at all).

Look for patches that contain Organic Agaricus Mushroom, Organic Tourmaline, and Organic Eucalyptus Sap Powder, if you can afford them. These are the three primary and necessary ingredients needed for detox patches to work. Most companies will use one or two of these ingredients combined with fillers and other non-effective ingredients. It is very expensive to use these three substances and therefore most companies don't.