Tammy Kirby’s Testimony From the ashes of addiction, a glimmer of hope My name is Tammy. I am a believer who struggles with drug addiction, depression, and anger. My parents divorced when I was 6 months old.  My dad remarried a couple of times, and we didn’t see him much. My mom married a few […]

By Nick Reding Reviewed by Bill Kauffman Published in the Wall Street Journal on June 9, 2009 Oelwein, Iowa, pronounced “Ol Wine,” is a small city of about 6,700 souls in northeast Iowa that Jay Leno reportedly once called “possibly the worst place in the world.” There are those who love it, though, and the […]

  The straight dope for parents By Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Fireside, a division of Simon & Schuster Reviewed by David Palmer   Near the end of Joseph Califano’s book, “How to raise a Drug Free Kid,” the author quotes a father who wrote, “Like so many parents, we didn’t heed the warning signs. We […]