Jim DeSena's Media Appearances   April 13, 2003—Radio: WMTR, 1170AM & 1250AM, Cedar Knolls, NJ, “Insights” with host, Chris DeMeo.   April 13, 2003—Radio: WDHA, 105.5FM, Cedar Knolls, NJ, “Insights” with host, Chris DeMeo.   April 25, 2003—Radio: WNTN, 1550AM, Newton, MA, “1550 Today” with host, Sybil Tonkonogy.   July 5, 2003—Radio: WESB, 1490AM, Bradford, PA, “Weekend Wrap” with host, Nick Pircio.   July 6, 2003—Radio: WBRR, 100.1FM, Bradford, PA, “Weekend Wrap” with host, Nick Pircio.   July 8, 2003—Radio: WOR, 710AM, New York, NY, “The Joey Reynolds Show” with host, Joey Reynolds.   July 10, 2003—Radio: KEUN, 1490AM, Eunice, LA, “Coffee Talk” with host, Karl DeRouen.   July 23, 2003—Radio: KLIN, 1400AM, Lincoln, NE, “Lundy & Company” with host, Steve Lundy.   July 27, 2003—Radio: WDTR, 90.9FM, Detroit, MI, “Let’s Talk Sunday” with host, Stephanie Davis.   November 4, 2003—Radio: WJCU, 88.7FM, Cleveland, OH, “Carroll Corner” with host, Marie Rowinski.     Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   CONTACT: James DeSena PHONE: 973-377-0695 E-MAIL: recoveryfree@aol.com     Jump Off the Recovery Merry-Go-Round   How to Quit Booze, Other Drugs and AA                 Bad medicine and faith healers have harmed vulnerable people for ages.  One form bad medicine and faith healers take today is that of addiction treatment and addiction treatment providers.  As an alternative to this, a new book, Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits: An Empowering Alternative to AA and 12-Step Treatment, presents the easily understood methods used by people who have successfully quit addictions/dependencies on their own.  You can quit for good—without therapists, counselors, rehabs, faith healing 12-step programs, sponsors and lifetime of recovery meetings.             Studies clearly show that nearly 80% of people who quit booze and other drugs do so without any treatment.  But addiction counselors and therapists ignore this fact to keep you on the treatment treadmill and forever “recovering.”             Consider the following from the Harvard Medical School’s Mental Health Letter, August/September 1996:                 Most recovery from alcoholism is not the result of treatment.  Only 20% of alcohol abusers are ever treated…     Well-respected addiction researchers, Dr.’s Mark and Linda   Sobell, confirm Harvard’s 20% statistic:       …surveys found that over 77 percent of those who had overcome an alcohol problem had done so without treatment.  In an earlier study…a sizable majority of alcohol abuser, 82 percent, recovered on their own.     Of the 20% who are “treated,” it’s sports stars like Darryl Strawberry and other notables such as Robert Downey, Jr. and Joan Kennedy, (who by last count has been in 12-step rehab 13 times) that we always hear about because of their repeated post-“treatment” relapses.                       Yet people overcome addictions every day.  They were doing it long before Alcoholics Anonymous and today’s addiction experts began telling them they couldn’t.  America’s multi-billion-dollar addiction treatment industry stresses, “You can’t do it alone” and “Treatment works.”  If treatment works so well, why do people check into rehab four, five, six times and more?  Why are we constantly reading about sports stars and other celebrities heading toward the same dismal fate?  How can you avoid a similar destiny?             Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits answers the preceding questions, taking a hard look at the addiction treatment industry and its problematic solution for what is touted as a disease: alcoholism/addiction.  The goal of this book is twofold: to help alcoholics and addicts achieve freedom from lifelong addiction and from recovery.             This book draws its lessons from the real treatment experts: people who have quit addictions on their own.  Like them, those who read this book will learn how to be free from addiction and from “recovery.”                         Contact: James DeSena                           See Sharp Press                           P.O. Box 1731                           Tucson, AZ 85702                           Phone: 973-377-0695                           Fax: 520-628-8720                           E-mail: recoveryfree@aol.com                                                       --30--  To order your copy of "Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug, and Recovery Habits," Click here.