{"id":746,"date":"2007-11-17T15:46:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T15:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=181"},"modified":"2007-11-17T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T15:46:52","slug":"111507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"11\/15\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>NY Times<\/em> carried a front page story on Delray Beach, Fla., which they dubbed: \u00a0&#8220;The Oasis of Sobriety.&#8221; \u00a0 The reason for this is because of \u00a0Delray&#8217;s &#8220;compact geography and critical mass of recovering people.&#8221; \u00a0 There are recovering radio shows here, a number of rehab centers, scores of halfway houses, coffee shop therapy groups&#8230; \u00a0 We would do well, I believe, to mimic this proto-type in towns across America &#8212; and not just for alcohol and drug addiction. \u00a0 On a West Coast campaign swing, I told <em>CBS News<\/em> in Monterey, California, that we have become: <em>a society of addicts<\/em>. \u00a0 That is, \u00a0many are \u00a0now addicted to gambling, work, sex, television, overeating&#8230; I am a former addictions counselor, and know that the best chance for recovery is being surrounded by people consistently working on similiar issues &#8212; often with the base for recovery being the 12 Steps of such groups as Alcoholics Anonymous, Codependents Anonmyous, Overeater&#8217;s Anonymous, Gambler&#8217;s Anonymous, Debtor&#8217;s Anonymous&#8230; \u00a0 It is this collective, addictive\/compluslive behavior that translates into: higher crime rates, more broken homes, more abortion, more \u00a0personal debt, more \u00a0physical and psychiatric disorders&#8230; \u00a0 I told the \u00a0<em>Salem News<\/em> in Ohio that to heal the country, you have to heal the family &#8212; starting with these core issues. \u00a0 For our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_family.html\">position paper<\/a> on this&#8230; \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times carried a front page story on Delray Beach, Fla., which they dubbed: \u00a0&#8220;The Oasis of Sobriety.&#8221; \u00a0 The reason for this is because of \u00a0Delray&#8217;s &#8220;compact geography and critical mass of recovering people.&#8221; \u00a0 There are recovering <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=746\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}