At about 8 o’clock on the morning of April 9, Columbus Abrams called me. If you have been recovering from an addiction and have been going to 12-Step meetings for a couple of years or more, you may know what’s coming next. “Happy birthday!” Columbus said, with his usual infectious good cheer, as he has done annually for the past 20 years. Columbus, a recovering alcoholic, was referring to my sobriety date, the date I capitulated and put the plug in the jug 31 years ago. Okay, you say, it’s … [Read more...]
Movie to open in August ‘Step Away From The Stone’ offers hope and recovery
When actress Karen McCann put out a casting call for her new movie, Step Away From The Stone, 300 actors and would be actors, diverse in both age and race, showed up at Little Rock’s Rep theater for tryouts. McCann, who heads Rock Productions, a movie production firm, chose 150, and the shooting began three weeks later. McCann, who, in addition to producing the movie, wrote the script and is the leading lady, is not what you’d call your average Hollywood producer. In fact, in early … [Read more...]
Recovery Central offers 20 meetings a week
By David Palmer Shortly before noon on a sunlit day in May, men and women began gathering at the “Recovery in the Daylight” Narcotics Anonymous (NA) 12-Step meeting at Recovery Central, a new Little Rock facility mainly for NA meetings. More about the “Recovery in the Daylight” meeting in a minute. First, some background on Narcotics Anonymous and on Recovery Central. NA meetings came along about 18 years after AA’s founding in 1935 and are similar to AA’s 12-Step meetings in almost every … [Read more...]
Vietnam war vet overcomes opiate addiction, Pioneers local Cocaine Anonymous meetings
By David Palmer Cocaine addicts are a special breed. That’s what Norith Ellison says. And he should know. Ellison, 60, is a recovering cocaine addict who has been clean and sober for 21 years and started the state’s first Cocaine Anonymous (CA) meeting in Little Rock in 1989. Widely known and respected in the community for his far ranging activities in the service of addiction recovery and an unsuccessful candidate for state representative in 2006 who will likely run again, Ellison is modest … [Read more...]
Lois Wilson Story: When Love is Not Enough
The Biography of the cofounder of Al-Anon By William G. Borchert Picture if you will, eight women parked in front of the Clinton Street Brooklyn home of Bill and Lois Wilson. Their motors are running and they are steamed. On this night in 1938, their husbands, most of them newly sober, are attending a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous with the organization’s co-founder, Bill Wilson. What ticks the ladies off is that their husbands have replaced drinking with meetings, leaving them once again … [Read more...]
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