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Interview With Rob Morgan

Aired September 10, 2002 - 06:23   ET

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CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know me, I'm always on this machine. And every once in a while I find a Web site that really kind of, it takes something that I go, you know, this was just a great idea, why didn't I think of this.
I found one the other day, Rob Morgan, the founder is on the phone with us. It's called Cybersober.com. And as I clicked on it, and I clicked around, there's 220,000 either Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, Narc Anon meetings, all on this Web site. So it, well, if you're out of town and you need to find a meeting, you can.

And Rob Morgan joins us now.

Rob, are you on the line?

ROB MORGAN, CYBERSOBER.COM: Yes, Chad. How are you doing?

MYERS: Good morning.

Thanks for waking up so early from Boca Raton, Florida this morning.

Tell me a little bit about this Web site and, you know, how it all started.

MORGAN: Well, I was traveling on a business trip and I was real young in my sobriety. And I came back to the hotel and I wanted to find a meeting. And I called the Inner Group. I tried three times without any help. Nobody answered the telephone. So I walked down to the front desk and they gave me the same telephone number. So I ended up going to bed at around 6:00 p.m.

MYERS: Now, as I'm reading here, it took you eight times -- not to get personal on you, but, you know, I want to get into your background. It took you eight times to get sober, is that what I'm hearing? Is that what I'm reading here?

MORGAN: Actually, seven, but...

MYERS: Seven.

MORGAN: ... we won't split hairs over that one.

MYERS: All right, yes.

What can people find on this Web site, on Cybersober.com? What are we getting here? MORGAN: Well, besides maps to meetings, we have online recovery support meetings. We have a reference library for prevention and education. We have a forum, a private journal place, a treatment locator, patient member management systems for professionals and finally we have a neat little thing called Our Place for Families, which is for children and parents both to interact and we're constantly building in just neat little things like that.

MYERS: I'm reading here about your Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder about the 9/11 and that's why I wanted you on today. Sixty- seven thousand Manhattan residents had Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after 9/11 and 87,000 had depression at the time this survey was taken. And a lot of those folks have turned to drinking and substance abuse. And that's why I want to, that's why I wanted you on today.

What can you do for those folks there? How do they get on your Web site?

MORGAN: Well, I don't know if you've heard about this, but in honor of 9/11 we have given a week long, well, it's actually till next Monday, a free membership. People can get on using the user name CNN and password DAYBREAK.

MYERS: Right. We have it on our screen there.

MORGAN: OK. And they go onto it. They go into the meetings. They hit, find meetings.

MYERS: There they are. There's a bunch for Atlanta right there.

MORGAN: Right. What they'll do is they'll go through and they'll pick their meeting and then an overview map will come up. And then they'll click directions at the bottom and after that comes up they'll put their address and point of origin in and then a map, a door to door direction map will appear.

MYERS: It sounds great.

You know, we're about out of time, but it's not only for Alcoholics Anonymous. It's Narc Anon, it's Gamblers Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, 210,000 support group meetings listed by zip code. So if you're out of town, if you're out of state, if you're in an airport and you need to not drink for some reason, you know, I mean obviously we had meetings and we had stories about that.

Rob, thank you very much. I hope this will help some folks.

MORGAN: Thank you.

MYERS: Anybody who needs to get on there today or for the next couple of days for a little bit of support, CNN the user name, daybreak is the password, and it's all for free.

COSTELLO: Oh, that's a great one.

MYERS: Thanks, Rob. Yes.

COSTELLO: Thank you, Chad.

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