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Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap
Recovery from addictions is great But how do you get treatment?
You’d never know to look at her that Crystal Bush is a former gun packing drug addict and convicted felon whose husband is serving time on drug charges.
Fortunately for her, Crystal is one of the lucky five out of a hundred people in Arkansas who need treatment and get it.
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Read more... [Recovery from addictions is great. But how do you get treatment?]
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Second Installment
 Interviews are always stressful - even for job seekers who have gone on countless interviews. The best way to reduce the stress is to be prepared. ODAT has gathered advice from some of the experts in the field. Below are checklists, advice and sample interview questions designed to prepare you for quality, results-producing interviews.
The following checklists are from the experts at http://www.best-job-interview.com.
The Pre- Interview Checklist
Use the practical interview checklist of what you need to do the day before your interview. You want to be sure that you are properly prepared and confident of getting the job. Here is a list of what you should put in your portfolio or briefcase.
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Read more... [Looking for a job? Get started with ODAT's "Job Hunting Guide]
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By David Palmer
 When actress Karen McCann put out a casting call in January for her new movie, Step Away From The Stone, 300 actors and would be actors, diverse in both age and race, showed up at Little Rock’s Rep theater for tryouts.
McCann, who heads Rock Productions, a movie production firm, chose 150, and the shooting began three weeks later. The movie, shot in 30 days, is expected to open in Little Rock theaters in August.
McCann, who, in addition to producing the movie, wrote the script and is the leading lady, is not what you’d call your average Hollywood producer. In fact, in early conversations with Hollywood moguls, they suggested that she would not find the talent she needed in Arkansas and should come to California to make her movies.
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Read more... [Movie to open in August ‘Step Away From The Stone’ offers hope and recovery]
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Dr. Allen Berger
$14.95
Hazelden Publishing
Review by David Palmer
Four out of five newcomers to Alcoholics Anonymous relapse during the first year of their recovery, according to author Allen Berger, and he believes we can improve the odds by going beyond the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and into the realm of psychotherapy.
There is much more to solving our addiction problems than putting the cork in the bottle, says Berger, himself a psychotherapist and recovering drug addict in “12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery,” a dandy little manual on recovery.
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People who want to quit smoking are most likely to succeed when they gain support. This can come from many sources--family members, friends, books, classes, counseling, medication, and more. However, only one in seven smokers reports using such resources during their last attempt to quit.
If you're a smoker, you can break this pattern. Take Nov. 16 as an opportunity to find stop-smoking strategies that work for you. That's the date of the annual Great American Smokeout sponsored by the American Cancer Society.
The idea behind this event is that quitting for one day can lead to quitting forever. And if you're willing to try, there are thousands of people who will join you on Nov. 16.
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It was close to midnight on April 10, 2002, when Erin O’Brien, an attractive 22 year-old, left a tavern in West Little Rock, hopped into her bright red Saturn, buckled her seatbelt and headed west on Highway 10. During the evening, O’Brien had three glasses of wine, not much by her standards, but the night before she had partied hard on drugs and alcohol.
 Six miles down the highway, O’Brien lost control of her car, careened into a ditch, rolled the car two or three times and landed upside down. The car roof was crushed and so was O’Brien’s spine. She was conscious and in a lot of pain, but from the waist down she felt nothing. She was paralyzed. She could have been dead, but the one thing she did right was fasten her seatbelt.
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Read more... [Her spinal cord crushed in auto crash, young woman speaks out on drug abuse]
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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 rearview mirror. They seemed to be chasing him, these freakish-looking men. As his focus returned he could see carnival booths passing by. My God, he surmised, I am on the midway.
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