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We fight sales of false ID papers like fake ID cards and fake driver licenses.
Welcome to TA3!
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Dewine, Dodd introduce bill to prevent underage drinking
July 21, 2006
Fake ID cards 'openly available'
June 22, 2006
Pizza delivery people and hotel clerks to help cut into underage drinking
May 27, 2006
Police support new Fake ID card scheme
April 3, 2006
Senate passes law hoping to ban Internet fake IDs
February 13, 2006
Fake ID ring cracked
November 6, 2005
Underage drinking worse at prom and spring breaks
January 23, 2005
Teen drinking shocker - Underage drinking troublespot
Januari 3, 2005
Identity fraud - Fighting back on Fake ID fraud
November 27, 2004
Fake driver licenses easy to obtain
September 9, 2004
Teens can get fake IDs in a few keystrokes on Web
May 17, 2004
Teenage drinking is a widespread epidemic in the United States
April 23, 2004
Harmful effects of underage drinking
December 9, 2003
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TA3 Mission
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| Teenage drinking is a serious problem with real consequences. Our hopes are to help you, and the ones you love, to avoid the pain and suffering caused by alcohol addiction. We hope you find this site helpful as our desire is to help, encourage and support you and your friends to a new found happiness and a clean and sober lifestyle. |
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Helping Your Friends
Because alcoholism is a disease and not a behavior, chances are that you won't be able to change your friend's actions, but you can show your love and support.
You're not betraying your friend by seeking to find him or her help. Keeping "the secret" is part of the disease of alcoholism and it allows the problems to get worse. As with any disease, it's still possible to be a friend while recognizing that he or she has alcoholism and it's not disloyal to seek help in dealing with the problems your friend's drinking creates for them or you.
Understand that teenage children of alcoholics are at a higher risk of becoming alcoholics themselves. Acknowledging the problem and reaching out for support can help ensure that your friend’s future does not repeat their parent's past.
If you want to be proactive in helping your friend, Alateen is a fellowship of young Al-Anon members, usually teenagers, whose lives have been affected by someone else's drinking. If you have a friend that you feel is abusing alcohol and becoming a danger to themselves or others, please do not hesitate to call Alateen @ 888-4AL-ANON, Monday through Friday, 8 am to 6 pm ET.
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Helping families and friends of alcoholics recover from the effects of living with the problem drinking of a relative or friend
Alateen is Al-Anon’s recovery program for young people
Alateen groups are sponsored by Al-Anon members
Sharing experiences, strengths and hopes with each other
Discussing their difficulties
Learning effective ways to cope with their problems
Encouraging one another
Helping each other understand the principles of the Al-Anon program
Learning how to use Alateen's Twelve Traditions*
Compulsive drinking is a disease
They can detach themselves emotionally from the drinker's problems while continuing to love the person.
They are not the cause of anyone else's drinking or behavior
They cannot change or control anyone but themselves
They have spiritual and intellectual resources with which to develop their own potentials, no matter what happens at home
They can build satisfying and rewarding life experiences for themselves
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Alateen's Twelve Traditions
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Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity.
For our group purpose there is but one authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of alcoholism in a relative or friend. The teenage relatives of alcoholics when gathered together for mutual aid, may call themselves an Alateen Group provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting other Alateen and Al-Anon Family Groups or AA as a whole.
Each Alateen Group has but one purpose: to help other teenagers of alcoholics. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps of AA ourselves and by encouraging and understanding the members of our immediate families.
Alateens, being part of Al-Anon Family Groups, ought never endorse, finance or lend our name to any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim. Although a separate entity, we should always cooperate with Alcoholics Anonymous.
Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
Alateen Twelfth-Step work should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
Our groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
The Alateen Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV and films. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all AA members.
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities.
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