By David Palmer With her blonde bob and a big smile, recovering drug addict Stephenie Drake, a 35-year old ex GI from Pansy, Ark., looks happy in her sobriety. Drake has been clean and sober nine years now, she said in a recent interview, and lives in a small trailer with her son, Skyler, while she attends Pulaski Tech. She has six years of college, part of it at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and is close to getting her nursing degree. Drake began her journey to sobriety in 2002 … [Read more...]
New Court Helps Veterans get a Fresh Start
On a mid-December afternoon, Sixth Circuit Judge Mary S. McGowan convened Little Rock’s new Veteran’s Treatment Court (VTC) on the third floor of the Pulaski County courthouse, the second of its kind in Arkansas and one of about 40 nationwide. The mission of the VTC program is to promote recovery and rehabilitation from substance abuse and mental health issues and when successful, which is most of the time, damaged lives and broken families are restored and society benefits. On the docket in … [Read more...]
Our creative writing class on recovery for teenagers
We, at One Day at a Time, a Little Rock based non-profit company, have a special interest in addressing the problem of teen substance abuse. This is partly owing to the fact that, the U.S. Department of Health and Human has identified Arkansas as among states with the highest rates of non-medical use of pain relievers among 12- to 25-year-olds. Here are some other facts worth noting: • 22 percent of Arkansas high school students say they've abused prescription drugs by the time they're … [Read more...]
A conversation with Bobby Ward, clinical supervisor at UAMS
By David Palmer I’ve known Bobby Ward for most of his 20 years of sobriety and have been entertained and enlightened at recovery meetings over the years by his story, which he delivers with self-deprecating humor illuminated by a megawatt smile. So it was with great anticipation that I drove over to the UAMS Psychiatric Hospital to pay him a visit. Bobby, who has since left the hospital for another job, was a clinical director for substance abuse treatment and directed the chemical dependence … [Read more...]
Nurses in Recovery
Nurses in recovery. A new book on prescription drug abuse From Unbecoming a Nurse to Overcoming Addiction By Paula Davies Scimeca, RN, MS Sea Meca, Inc. $19.95 “One day after having been up all night getting high,” a registered nurse writes in her testimony in Paula Scimeca’s book, From Unbecoming a Nurse to Overcoming Addiction, “I got ready for work in the wee hours of the morning. I took my shower, ironed my uniform and walked to work. “Mid-morning that day, I was passing medications. I … [Read more...]
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