Standing on the brink of the intersection of Roosevelt and Asher, a very rough Little Rock neighborhood, Dino Davis surveys with pride the treatment facility he has created on two acres of land to serve recovering addicts. Davis and his partner, Curtis Keith, fashioned the adobe-style Quality Living Center (QLC) out of an older building […]
Quality Living Center Serves Recovering Addicts with its Tough, Resourceful and Low-cost Program
June 29, 2011 By
Missing That Good Boy
April 13, 2011 By
It happened again. Devastatingly again. One of us lost his son. And not just lost him but lost him in a way that didn’t have to happen. We’re still grieving the loss. We’re still wringing our hands and looking to our own kids hoping, wishing, praying that we don’t lose them. It didn’t have to […]
“Teen ‘Zine” — A New Approach to Teen Drug Problems
April 13, 2011 By
The silence was deafening … 15 pairs of eyes staring, arms crossed. I smile, no one smiles back. “Can anyone tell me, what makes a good news story?” Nada. My 10 minute PowerPoint seemed to last an eternity. “We are going to divide into two groups and do an exercise. Let’s count off and move […]
Note to the Homeless: Get a Life at Our House
March 31, 2011 By
At Our House, it’s the children who get people choked up. It’s the baby blissfully being rocked or a little girl, with tongue stuck out, concentrating on putting a puzzle together with a gentle prompt from a volunteer. Most of these children have been neglected and some abused, but today they are safe with a […]
Oasis Offers Top Treatment in Rustic Resort Setting
March 31, 2011 By
The Oasis Renewal Center, an up-scale treatment facility on 48 wooded acres in west Little Rock, is now accepting applications from up to 24 guests — men and women 18 and over — for its 30 day program and follow up. With its log cabin cottages, main lodge, private dining facilities and scenic walking trails […]
A Piece of Cake
January 13, 2011 By
Cupcake Brown (that’s her real name) was 11 in 1976 when her mother died. Custody of Brown and her brother was given to a stranger — their birth father — who only wanted their social security checks. He then left them with an abusive foster mother who encouraged her nephew to rape Brown repeatedly. Brown […]
New Court Helps Veterans get a Fresh Start
December 30, 2010 By
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 […]
Our creative writing class on recovery for teenagers
December 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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 […]
