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Communications of Hossein and Bill- Smoking cessation

Communications of Hossein and Bill- Smoking cessation

Dear Hossein,

 

      This morning I received word from the editor of the International Journal of Drug Policy that they will not publish our article on Congress 60.  I knew it would be a long shot submitting it there, but I wanted to start with one the international journals.  The editor said it was declined because it focused on a single program rather than broader policy issues.  I, of course, think that the approaches of Congress 60 have considerable international import, but we must abide by their decision.  I have two other editors who have expressed some interest in the paper. I will contact them in the coming weeks and submit the paper to one of their journals.  This small setback in no way slows my determination to continue to move forward with our work. 

     I have one more project to finish up in the next two weeks and then I will return to work getting this first paper published.

 

Friends and Brothers Forever,

Bill 

 

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Dear Hossein,

 

      I received word yesterday from the Editor of Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly that our paper on Congress 60 has been accepted for publication in that journal.  The Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly is one of the older peer-reviewed addiction science journals in the U.S.  In the past decade, it has expanded its scope to address all addictions, has taken on a greater recovery-orientation and has also begun to publish papers from the international research community.  The editor is considering changing the name of the journal to the Journal of Addiction Treatment and Recovery.  Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly is very well-indexed so anyone searching addiction treatment in Iran in the future will locate our article.  I am very pleased with this milestone in our work.  I will keep you posted on when the article will appear and make sure you get copies of the journal when that issue is released.  I expect the article will be published in late 2014 or early 2015.

 

    Now that we have our first article in press, we can turn out attention later this year to writing up the results of our smoking cessation study.  I look forward to working with you on this.

 

Friends and Brothers Forever,

Bill  

 

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Dear Bill,

  I hope you are fine, I am well. Ramadan is over at today is Eid (pass over). I am at my office at 7 a.m. and first thing I must do is to write to you which I am doing now.

Ramadan was good and I lost some weight, at Ramadan everyone is active in Congress 60, some are cooking, some are distributing the cooked food, some are washing the dishes, some are helping financially, and everyone at a specified hour start eating together. Thus in my opinion Ramadan in Congress 60 is not only a religious matter but a social cooperation, we have no religious or political tendency. Maybe this is interesting that we have people of different religions here in Congress 60 and also we have people who has no belief but in Ramadan they cooperate together and they help each other and they eat with each other for they know Ramadan in Congress 60 is a month of doing a self-analysis and learning.

Dear brother, it is not important that our article was not accepted by “Drug policy” because I was so delighted when you said that it was accepted by “Alcoholism Treatment”. As I mentioned before our goal after publishing the article (using the D.S.T method for smoking cessation) is to write a paper or offering a path for alcoholics’ treatment with the D.S.T method. This was God’s will or a good chance that we are to work with this journal. We can treat alcoholism with the D.S.T method using alcohols or the OT. I am certain after publishing the article we will be well-connected with the people who are working in alcohols field.

With Ramadan finished the gathering information for questionnaires of smoking cessation will begin and I think it will be finished fast. The questionnaires will be done in few weeks.

Meanwhile, tomorrow around 300 of Congress 60 members will go on an 8 days camping in a mountainous environment as last year.  This year we have a land of our own for camping (750 meters) this piece of land is beside a river and is allocated to our camping.

My family is well and I hope your family is fine and healthy as well.

 

Friends and brothers on heaven and earth forever

Hossein

 

 

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