The Love Bomb For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have promised to help teenagers kick drug and alcohol addiction. By Daniel Kolitz. Daniel Kolitz is a writer in Brooklyn. Inertia, a sense of having nothing better to do, was the only thing that kept him watching.
Above: Dave Cherry in July When the game ended, the network cut to Dan Rather, his posture as rigid as his hair. Cherry, who lived in the suburbs of St.
Others say he gets those youngsters dependent on him and PDAP in place of their former dependence on drugs and alcohol. Additional information on rehab abuse is available via Breaking Code Silence. Fury seemed to flash behind his orange-tinted aviators.
Cherry, the son of strict Southern Baptists, was suddenly interested. Meehan was precisely the kind of guy his parents would despise. Meehan called his method of treating substance abuse Enthusiastic Sobriety, or ES. It was a kind of Alcoholics Anonymous for teenagers; it emphasized community and spirituality, but also insisted that participants needed to have fun. Cherry watched footage of cozy group confessionals and larger meetings that looked like pep rallies.
Kids traded shoulder squeezes and looks of fervent understanding. Meehan was so animated that, beside him, Rather looked like an expensive wax statue. Rather presented dissenting opinions, from sources who described an environment that seemed designed to keep PDAP participants in thrall to Meehan.
