“On March 4, 2007, combat veteran Chris Dana, put a .22 against his head, muffled it with a comforter and ended his life as quietly as a book drops. He had PTSD and didn’t get the help he needed.” These deeply affecting words were written by Eric Newhouse, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, in his book, The Faces of Combat: PTSD and TBI. (PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and TBI stands for Traumatic Brain Injury). The symptoms of PTSD fall into three categories: … [Read more...]
Texas Tech’s Recovery Program
An escape from Animal House, Texas Tech's innovative recovery program tackles collegiate alcohol and drug abuse. There are 50,000 college-eligible kids in America today who are too strung out on alcohol or other drugs to get in let alone make the grade. Unfortunately, the way things are now, it may be just as well. If some of these kids want to sober up, college is the last place they should go. Colleges and universities actually breed substance abuse. Think animal … [Read more...]
Moments of Clarity
By Christopher Kennedy Lawford William Morrow $25.99 “The morning of February 17, 1986, I woke up, as usual, with that weight in the pit of my stomach, knowing that all I had in front of me was another day of dancing with the 800-pound gorilla of addiction.” And so begins Chris Lawford’s “moment of clarity” as he reports it in his introduction to this great book about how people recover from addictions—in this case 42 well-known people, many of them celebrities. Lawford, whose father was … [Read more...]
Sought Through Prayer and Meditation
Wisdom from the Sunday 11th Step Meetings At the Wolfe Street Center in Little Rock Geno W., with William G. Borchert Hazelden Foundation The Eleventh Step: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. This book of meditations is a wonderful collaboration of two gifted men, the late Geno W. whose 11th Step meetings at the Wolfe Street Center in Little Rock … [Read more...]
Feeding the Fame
Celebrities Tell Their Real-life Stories of Eating Disorders and Recovery By Gary Stromberg and Jane Merrill (Hazelden publishing) Supermarket tabloids regularly cover the addiction beat with heightened attention lately on eating disorders. “Wasting Away. Stars Risking their Lives to be Thin” trumpets the front page of the National Enquirer supported by five pages of photos featuring rail-thin Nicole Richie, Keira Knightly, Sienna Miller and “manorexics,” Marc Anthony and Carson … [Read more...]
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