re - no recovery program that has ever worked was based on willpower - 
yeah my husband once heard at a meeting that using willpower on 
alcoholism was about as good for long term success as using willpower 
on really bad diarhea over the long haul.  It's really gross and 
disgusting, as analogies go, but it does get the point across.
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This seems to me to be true for teenagers as for any of the rest of 
you.  When I was a teenager, I swigged unconsecrated sacramental wine 
with the altar boys - it was a Catholic School - and I stole my 
mother's phenobarbital (downers) which she seemed to have stolen from 
HER mother, as it had my grandmother's name on it and she didn't live 
with us.  The odd thing about it is the pills NEVER did run out; 
however, my mother denies ever having had a problem to this day.
How did it get in our home?  Why did it never run out? Inquiring minds 
wanted to know - and STILL DO! (GRIN)
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I also had the pleasure of sponsoring a young woman, 19 - 20 at the 
time, in one of her first tries at AA.  She didn't make it while I was 
her sponsor, but more recently has done better with another sponsor.  
It's NOT easy to be young and to be sober; however, she and many of the
other teens in our local young people's AA group say that they have 
found it to definitely be worth it.  (These groups meet all over the 
country and there is even an association of young people in AA that 
hosts conventions and events at the national, state and local levels by
the way folks).
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I know you know most of this Harriet, I'm just posting it too in 
support of your response to Paul - I agree completely.
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