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WELCOME The purpose of this website is to serve as a single location where individuals who are interested in information about addictions, treatment, and recovery among African Americans can be found. The site contains historical data, scholarly articles, educational videos, music and DVDs.

 "Imagine if the government chased sick people with diabetes. Then sent them to jail. If we did that everyone would know we were crazy. Yet we do practically the same thing every day of the week to sick peolpe hooked on drugs."      

  - Billie Holiday, Singer   

 
 
 
 

"We cannot stagger to freedom"

- Frederick Douglass, Leader of the Black Temperance Movement

The first prominent American recovering alcoholic

The first prominent American recovering alcoholic