South Florida has never really been known for its involvement in Recovery Month – until now. Thanks to the folks at InTheRooms.com, Recovery Month will always have a day of recognition in SoFla as The Mayor’s Office proclaimed September 12th to be “In The Rooms Day” in Miami.

The proclamation was made by a representative for the mayor’s office following a 5k walk during the 1st annual InTheRooms.com “Rally for Recovery” on the same date. This year, the South Florida Recovery Month Event was attended by over 2000 supporters including ITR members from across the country.

For more information about future South Florida Recovery Month Events including the Rally for Recovery and more, check out In The Rooms. For more information on the Rally for Recovery, check out www.RallyforRecovery.org

Join everyone from InTheRooms.com for some great music, food and fun at Bicentennial Park in Downtown Miami, Florida. The first annual “Rally For Recovery” will be a beautiful walk across the world famous McArhur Causeway and will finish where it began, at Bicentennial Park where a great musical festival featuring Eric Burdon and The Animals, Richie Supa and many more will perform.

Make sure to visit the official Rally For Recovery Website to buy your tickets, make donations and find out more about the festival and InTheRooms.com

Now, ITR has developed Meetings.InTheRooms.com, the largest database of Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings, Narcotics Anonymous Meetings, Gamblers Anonymous Meetings, Marijuana Anonymous Meetings and Overeaters Anonymous Meetings on the Internet. The database, which is on a Wiki-based platform, will allow knowledgeable users to update and edit times, locations, dates and other vital information for meetings.

As a social networking innovator, InTheRooms.com is the most comprehensive resource for global fellowships, local support groups and individuals dedicated to recovery. Members can meet other like-minded people, upload photos, post videos, create blogs, and most importantly, share their experience, strength and hope about recovery. In just a few short months, InTheRooms.com has become the number one recovery community on the Internet.

For more information, visit In The Rooms online at InTheRooms.com or access the new Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings Database at Meetings.InTheRooms.com.

Now, with the help of InTheRooms.com, Ken Seeley has the unique opportunity to reach thousands of new members from around the world each month and the ability to interact with them on a personal, day-to-day basis. 

In a recent article for www.InTheRooms.com, Ken Seeley wrote, “I was convinced I was working a strong program; maintaining contact with my sponsor, sponsoring others, going to meetings and being active in the Fellowship of AA. However, I also found myself in the depths of a relapse that I didn’t see coming.”
 
To read the rest of Seeley’s personal and compelling piece, “My Crisis in Recovery”, or to find meetings worldwide, find people in recovery near you or chat with others in recovery from around the world (including our friend Ken Seeley) visit InTheRooms.com

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder that is typically characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions).

Repetitive behaviors such as hand washing, counting, checking, or cleaning are often performed with the hope of preventing obsessive thoughts or making them go away. Performing these so-called “rituals,” however, provides only temporary relief, and not performing them markedly increases anxiety.

A new series premiering this Monday, May 25th on A&E titled “Obsessed”, will explore Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and the people who live with the anxiety disorder everyday. Like “Intervention”, A&E’s “Obsessed” promises to follow individuals suffering from OCD who are seeking treatment.

A&E explores the world of individuals suffering from extreme anxiety disorders, including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder and Hoarding, and tells the stories of their struggles to overcome them in the new original nonfiction series “Obsessed.” The eleven episode, one-hour series debuts Monday, May 25 at 10pm ET/PT following the season premiere of the Emmy®-nominated “Intervention.”

“Me and him have had similar lives and stuff,” Eminem stated. “So I reached out to him and told him, ‘Look, I’m going through a problem, and I need your advice.’ I also talked to T.I. a lot and, you know, we exchange advice.” Can you imagine that think-tank?

Eminem went on to say that Elton John and him had become very good friends  and he has turned to him several times for help with his career as well as his substance abuse problems. Eminem reached out to Elton John for advice most recently over his addiction to painkillers after a near-fatal methadone overdose.

Five-time NASCAR premier series winner, Jeremy Mayfield has become the first to be penalized for failing a new random drug test implemented by NASCAR.

The punishment is a rough one, as Jeremy Mayfield and 2 of his crew members were suspended from NASCAR indefinitely. Although NASCAR has tested for drugs in the past, it was usually due to some sort of probable cause. However, random drug testing just began in NASCAR, it currently has some of the strictest anti-drug policies in competitive sports.

NASCAR has not released any specific information about the type or types of drugs Mayfield tested positive for, only saying that is certainly more serious than just alcohol. “He is suspended as an owner and a driver,” Said series Vice President Jim Hunter. “His team could be operated by somebody else, but Jeremy will not be allowed to participate.”

Current ‘America’s Got Talent’ judge and former ‘Baywatch’ star, David Hasselhoff is denying accusations that he was hospitalized in Encino, California on Saturday, May 2nd, due to alcohol poisoning.

Earlier this week, Radar Online reported that David Hasselhoff’s daughter discovered him unconscious in his home. The online news source also reported that once he was hospitalized, his alcohol level was registered at a mind-blowing .39.

Now, TMZ is reporting that Hasselhoff’s ex wife, Pamela Bach, blew the story way out of proportion. However, with incomprehensible sentences like, “We’ve gotten to the bottom of the David Hasselhoff mystery, and it ain’t the way his ex is painting it”, I wouldn’t trust TMZ if one of their “reporters” wrote that their mother loves them.

Steve-O’s trouble with addiction was rough, tough and televised. And now, MTV hopes that its new documentary, Steve-O: Demise and Rise, will capture the attention of its mostly tween audience and highlight negative aspects of addiction, as well as the positive side of recovery.

However, Steve-O let it be kown quite clearly that he has no aspirations to be the “poster boy” for sobriety. In fact, Steve-O considers himself to be more of an addict than a role model.

Steve-O: Demise and Rise was reportedly put together using several hours of footage which Steve-O shot on his own. The footage contains a raw look of Steve-O’s life on the road while snorting cocaine, doing whip-its and filming his hit movie series, Jackass.

“Certainly a documentary about my downward spiral isn’t going to keep me sober by any means,” Steve-O told TVGuide.com. “If anything, I feel like I’m being printed in the media as ‘the sober guy’ I feel like that does more to set me up for a fall than really keep me sober. The last thing anyone who’s working to stay sober wants is to be touted as some kind of example.”

Check out the new MTV documentary, Steve-O: Demise and Rise, Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 10 pm/ET on MTV.

Congratulations to Richie Supa and everyone at http://www.InTheRooms.com for their win at the 2009 Prism Awards. Richie Supa performed “In The Rooms” for a packed crowd in Beverly Hills, California, where “In The Rooms” won Song of the Year.

Everyone at the Prism Awards also received a free C.D. with the “In The Rooms” song and a registration card for http://www.InTheRooms.com. If you want to check out In The Rooms or make friends with Richie Supa, check out the article below for a link to his personal profile on http://www.InTheRooms.com