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 […]
Moments of Clarity
September 11, 2012 By
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” […]
Sought Through Prayer and Meditation
August 21, 2012 By
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 […]
My Name is Funky
August 14, 2012 By
My Name is Funky, and I’m and alcoholic By Tom Batiuk Published by Hazelden Thirty-five years ago, Tom Batiuk (rhymes with “attic”), a high school art teacher, launched his Funky Winkerbean comic strip about an amiable character with a goofy first name and an assortment of quirky friends at Westview High. There was Crazy Harry […]
Lost Fathers
August 7, 2012 By
How women can heal from adolescent father loss. By Laraine Herring Published by Hazelden “Every girl needs a ferryman to help her cross the river. When the mythic ferryman figure in her life is missing due to death or other loss, the journey is complicated.” When you hear the testimony of women in recovery, there […]
Beautiful Boy
July 24, 2012 By
A father’s journey through his son’s addiction By David Sheff Houghton Mifflin Company $24 I’ve got a grandson who, at age 22, is drawing social security benefits in the aftermath of two catastrophic drug related accidents that badly damaged him physically and emotionally. And he still smokes pot. I’ve got another grandson, 26, who […]
Sports Lover’s Guide to Recovery
July 17, 2012 By
Andrew L. Dieden Hazelden $14.95 Sports and recovery are similar, says Joanna M. Ceppi, a psychologist at Promises Treatment Center in California in the forward of Andrew Dieden’s book, “in that both require a person to exercise discipline, courage, and some form of surrender.” Andrew Dieden, lawyer, sports fan and a recovering drug addict develops […]
What it takes to pull me through
July 10, 2012 By
Why teenagers get in trouble and how four of them got out. By David Marcus (Houghton Mifflin) “Something began to churn inside Burns. It was a raw mixture of rage and fear and guilt—he didn’t know what to call it, but it was so intense that his heart pounded wildly. He felt dizzy. As he […]
