239 “gender convergence is propping up sales”: Interview with Thomas Greenfield, April 2013.
240 alcohol is 44 percent more affordable, in real terms, than it was in 1980: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235017/Low-price-alcohol-mean-youngsters-drink-activities.html.
240 alcohol companies have discovered they need women to drink—and they are marketing accordingly: Interview with David Jernigan, February 2013; and email exchange, April 2013.
241 “FAS or FASD is just one example of harm to others”: Interview with Jürgen Rehm, February 2013.
242 “Addiction is not a moral failure”: Interview with Susan E. Foster, May 2013.
242 random breath testing is the future: Interviews with Andrew Murie, 2010, 2011, 2013.
243 “we need to understand is the coexistence of depression and drinking in women”: Interview with Nancy Poole, February 2013.
244 “Becky’s Not Drinking Tonight”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIe9KGAJeko.
244 “The highest risk is for the higher-educated women in lower-resourced countries”: Interview with Sharon Wilsnack, March 2011.
CHAPTER 16: WRESTLING WITH THE GOD THING
245 “The spiritual life is not a theory”: Alcoholics Anonymous (Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc., 2001).
250 Spiritus con spiritum: Marion Woodman, Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride (Inner City Books, 1982).
250 Jung corresponding with Bill Wilson: Jan Bauer, Alcoholism and Women: The Background and the Psychology (Inner City Books, 1982).
251 Jung “recognized the confusion between physical and spiritual thirst”: Marion Woodman, Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride (Inner City Books, 1982).
251 the phrase “God as we understand Him”: http://www.barefootsworld.net/aadilemmanofaith.html.
251 “We live in a predominately Christian culture”: Marion Woodman, Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride (Inner City Books, 1982).
253 “Giving up booze”: Wilfrid Sheed, In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery (Simon & Schuster, 1995).
254 “flashy tail feathers of the bird courage”: E. B. White, as quoted in Scott Elledge’s E. B. White: A Biography (W. W. Norton and Company, 1984).
254 “a bunch of sober alcoholics”: Anne Lamott, Travelling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Anchor, 1999).
255 One of the sober alcoholics who helped me stay sober is Claire: Interview with Claire, January 2013.
258 “Addiction attempts to fill a spiritual void—and of course, it doesn’t work”: Interview with Stephanie Covington, December 2012.
260 “I was a distant stranger to my kids”: Stephanie Covington, A Woman’s Way Through the Twelve Steps (Hazelden, 1994).
261 “The word God could have a religious meaning”: Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2008).
261 “Underneath the personality, there’s a deeper self”: Interview with Gabor Maté, February 2013.
262 “This is a disease of perception”: Interview with Karin, January 2013.
CHAPTER 17: STIGMA
263 “It’s the misunderstanding that kills”: Interview with Susan Cheever, June 2011.
263 “You could say to me, ‘Drink responsibly,’ and I’ll say: ‘I’ll try!’”: Craig Ferguson at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI-BhQGwDO8.
264 “When the series is over, will you need a job?”: Interview with Alison Uncles, November 2010.
266 “We have known for more than twenty years that alcoholism is a chronic, relapsing brain disease”: Interview with Peter Thanos, November 2011.
266 “The American Medical Association calls it a disease”: Interview with Patrick Smith, November 2011.
266 “Our only shot is to see it as a disease because there’s much less stigma”: Interview with Jean Kilbourne, March 2010.
266 “If, in fact, alcoholism is a kind of slow suicide”: Jan Bauer, Alcoholism and Women: The Background and the Psychology (Inner City Books, 1982).
268 “Trauma isn’t just an emotional event: it shapes brain circuitry”: Interview with Gabor Maté, February 2013.
268 “For a woman, the stigma of addiction is still very bad”: Interview with Sheila Murphy, May 2011.
268 “no one chooses to be an addict”: Interview with Stephanie Covington, April 2013.
268 “A big process of my recovery was self-forgiveness”: Interview with Rebecca, March 2013.
268 “I wish I could use my real name”: Interview with Scout, November 2012.
269 Is it time for AA to drop the second A?: New York Times, May 6, 2011.
270 “We are in the midst of a public health crisis”: Susan Cheever at http://www.thefix.com/content/breaking-rule-anonymity-aa.
270 “Post-treatment, those who remain involved in a mutual twelve-step program like AA dramatically improve their chances of remaining clean and sober”: Interview with Patrick Smith, June 2011.
270 “if we cross into addiction, there is no going back”: Interview with Johanna O’Flaherty, November 2012.
271 “Anonymity protects”: Interview with Susan Cheever, June 2011.
271 “I think that the recovery world is where the gay world was in the 1990s”: Interview with Maer Roshan, June 2011.
271 “I do think recovery needs a face and a voice”: Interview with Stephanie Covington, July 2011.
272 “the hostility to meetings always surprises me”: Interview with Susan Juby, June 2011.
272 “If you’re female and drunk, you’re not going to live it down”: Interview with Karin, June 2011.
272 “One of the greatest problems is that the general public and policy makers don’t understand that people can and do get well”: Interview with Pat Taylor, June 2011.
272 “Recovery is a mind, body, and soul experience”: Interview with William C. Moyers, June 2011.
273 “you don’t need alcohol to be confident”: Interview with Chris Raine, April 2013.
274 National Roundtable on Girls, Women, and Alcohol: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/03/08/sobering_lack_of_progress_seen_on_women_and_alcohol.html.
CHAPTER 18: BECOMING WHOLE
275 “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken”: Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith (Riverhead Books, 1995).
275 For me, there has been one central fairy tale that has been totemic in my journey: Marie-Louise von Franz, The Feminine in Fairy Tales (Shambhala, 1993); and Robert A. Johnson, The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden: Understanding the Wounded Feeling Function in Masculine and Feminine Psychology (Harper-SanFrancisco, 1993).
280 “For the Breakup of a Relationship”: John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings (Doubleday, 2008).
282 “You are standing on the shaky sands of doubt”: Fraser Boa at http://blog.gaiam.com/quotes/authors/fraser-boa.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Winner of five National Magazine Awards, ANN DOWSETT JOHNSTON is a writer and editor recognized for her expertise in higher education and alcohol policy. Recipient of an Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy and a Southam Fellowship in Journalism, she spent most of her professional career at Maclean’s magazine where she was best known as the chief architect of the university rankings issue. A graduate of Queen’s University and a former vice principal of McGill, she lives in Toronto.
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