By Jan Kucala Every day modern kids have to make choices that we as parents, teachers and counselors may never have dreamed about when we were kids. Kids are under more stress today than previous generations. For many the word “family” may not evoke images of love and support but rather arguments and disconnection. Kids […]
Blackout
June 17, 2010 By
Blackouts are periods of intoxication during which the individual is unable to form or store new memories, though he or she appears to be awake and alert. It is not a good sign. By Ron T Mark came to at 30 miles an hour. This was just an estimate because his attention was in the […]
Lit-A Memoir
June 17, 2010 By
Review by David Palmer By Mary Karr Harper Collins “Age seventeen, stringy-haired and halter-topped, weighing in the high double digits and unhindered by a high school diploma, I showed up at the Pacific ocean, ready to seek my fortune with a truck full of extremely stoned surfers.” With this opening paragraph in Lit, her third […]
My Love Affair with Cocaine and My Recovery
May 26, 2010 By
By Kristi M. My name is Kristi and I am a very grateful recovering addict. It wasn’t always this way, though. I was born to parents who loved me but couldn’t love each other. They divorced when I was two, and my dad got custody. When I was seven my mom regained custody, and I […]
Wilbur Mills Center helps dads take responsibility
May 26, 2010 By
By David Palmer There are 24 million children in the United States — that’s one out of three — who live without their biological father. It is a problem with serious consequences. Children who live absent their biological fathers are at least two or three times more likely to be poor, to use drugs and […]
Choose Not To Fear
May 26, 2010 By
Choose not to fear By Ruth M. My Higher Power (MHP) likes to keep me busy with challenges. I have learned through the program that it’s not so healthy to create my own chaos, because the challenges MHP provides are quite enough thank you very much. I have heard over and over again, “God won’t […]
Complacency and the anatomy of a slip
May 26, 2010 By
By John C. In 1974, I was a young physician struggling with alcohol, baffled by my inability to live with it — or without it. One of my patients paid a house call on me — her hung-over doctor — and introduced me to the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. I was so thrilled to find […]
Today ‘Chef Jeff’ Henderson wants to change lives
May 26, 2010 By
By David Palmer ‘Chef Jeff’ Henderson is a former crack cocaine dealer who became a millionaire selling drugs on the streets of Los Angeles at age 19 and went to prison on a drug charge at 24 for 11 years. Today, Henderson, 45, is an award-winning chef, television personality (the Chef Jeff Project on the […]
Young people carry message, tackle adolescent tobacco addiction
May 26, 2010 By
By David Palmer Genine Perez, a dynamic 40-year-old with a big smile, big hair and a very busy Blackberry works on the front lines in the fight against smoking among adolescents and even younger children. If Perez can keep kids beginning as early as first grade and up through high school, from smoking, they may […]
Get out and stay out! Help for prison inmates grows
February 13, 2010 By
It’s no secret. Prison inmates have a tough time staying out of prison after they have been released. Estimates vary but one, accepted by many, says about three out of four commit another crime or break parole and end up behind bars again. They call this “recidivism.” Why do they do this? Hector Lozano with […]
