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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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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 on the site, a motorcycle dealership/car restoration shop. There was also a house which the owner, Ronald Colding, donated.
The Center, which was licensed by the state in 2006, offers treatment for substance abuse and mental health problems with a range of residential, outpatient and transitional living recovery programs. It can house 60 men and women and Davis and Keith have plans to expand it to 90.
They opened in 2007 as a “chem-free” transitional facility, which accommodates both men and women, with 20 men on board.
The partners also have plans to buy two more contiguous acres before they are finished.
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Read more... [Quality Living Center serves recovering addicts With its tough, resourceful and low-cost program]
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by David Palmer  Within the past six months we have started four projects aimed at reducing substance abuse. Our projects focus on: addiction in children, prison behavior and recidivism, high-risk communities and lack of treatment availability. They have the potential to save a lot of people a lot of heartache and money.
We have entered a new phase. We’re not just talking about recovery, although this too is crucial, we’re investing in it. First, the children. |
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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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By Steve Straessle
 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 happen.
The boy was a gentle soul with dark hair and a face that favored his mother’s. He was kind, and he was clever. The boy, Patrick Clemmons, had a creative flair that permeated everything about him, from the music he loved to the clothes he wore. We loved that about him. We loved that he had a sense of adventure that allowed him to reach into realms that most kids don’t even know exist.
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By Michael Gates Gill
(Gotham Books, 265 pages $23)
Review by BARBARA D. PHILLIPS
Deputy leisure and arts features editor
The Wall Street Journal
It could be the plot off an uplifting movie starring say, Tom Hanks. The fortunes of a man from a privileged background take a sharp downward turn when he loses a high-powered corporate position and destroys his marriage in middle age.
Unemployed and unhappy he has a chance encounter with a young black manager at a coffee bar and a job offer follows. The result? Our hero, now in his 60’s, finds happiness while toiling at Starbucks with people far younger than himself.
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By David Palmer
 At about 8 o’clock on the morning of April 9, Columbus Abrams called me.
If you have been recovering from an addiction and have been going to 12-Step meetings for a couple of years or more, you may know what’s coming next.
“Happy birthday!” Columbus said, with his usual infectious good cheer, as he has done annually for the past 20 years.
Columbus, a recovering alcoholic, was referring to my sobriety date, the date I capitulated and put the plug in the jug 31 years ago.
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