Alcoholics Can Drink Safely Again website redesigned and relaunched

(I-Newswire) June 1, 2009 - Ayrshire, Scotland, 1 June 2009--A website offering hope to alcoholics and sufferers from other related addictions has been redesigned and relaunched this week.

The website www.AlcoholicsCanDrinkSafelyAgain.com features the story of married couple Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald from Ayrshire in Scotland, who recovered from alcoholism and controversially are now able to drink responsibly again, and the book "Phoenix in a Bottle" which they wrote about their journey of discovery.

In 1994 as a result of their alcoholism, Lilian and Murdoch were down and out, sleeping rough in the streets and parks of Cambridge, the English university town where, a quarter of a century before, Murdoch had attained an honours degree.

Rejecting the conventional concepts of alcoholism, Lilian and Murdoch set about searching for the underlying causes of their self-harming behaviour problem, which they discovered lay in childhood.

They argue that no alcoholic is addicted to alcohol, but rather to the escape that alcohol affords - escape from life, or certain aspects of life with which they are unable to cope.

Having identified and addressed their issues from the past, the couple are today back home in Ayrshire, leading normal lives again, with their problems of alcoholism and Lilian's associated eating disorder well and truly behind them.

Controversially, they are also now able to drink alcohol responsibly again, if and when they so wish.

Lilian and Murdoch's book "Phoenix in a Bottle" is the inspiring story of their journey.

"Phoenix in a Bottle" by Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald is published by Melrose Books price 16.99. ISBN: 1905226144.

Reviewing the book, eminent American psychologist and addiction expert Dr Stanton Peele PhD commented: "Phoenix in a Bottle is a modern version of The Days of Wine and Roses, and tells the true story of how two people who entered a period of desperate drinking stayed with one another in a close loving relationship, and emerged from their alcoholism able to drink responsibly again.

"Both a wonderful love story and a challenge to conventional wisdom about how people can recover from drinking problems, Phoenix in a Bottle gives people hope, and helps them to confront their own demons - alcohol or otherwise."

"Phoenix in a Bottle" has been selected as a set text by a top American university. It is now required reading for all doctoral students in a psychology programme at Alliant International University in San Diego, California.

Dr. Gary W. Lawson is Professor of Psychology at Alliant University. He says: "I adopted Phoenix in a Bottle because the dilemma this couple struggled with and the questions they ask themselves are like so many others I have encountered in 35 years of clinical experience treating addictions.

"However, nowhere in addiction literature have I seen these issues examined and explained as well as Lilian and Murdoch do in Phoenix in a Bottle.

"I also recommend 'Phoenix in a Bottle' to many of my patients as well."

"Phoenix in a Bottle" is listed on Amazon UK.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Bottle-Lilian-MacDonald/dp/1905226144

"Phoenix in a Bottle" is published by Melrose Books price �16.99.

http://www.melrosebooks.com/bookDetails.php?id=15

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