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My Name is Funky, and I’m and alcoholic
By Tom Batiuk
Published by Hazelden
Thirty-five years ago, Tom Batiuk (rhymes with “attic”), a high school art teacher, launched his Funky Winkerbean comic strip about an amiable character with a goofy first name and an assortment of quirky friends at Westview High.
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By David Palmer
 I’ve known Bobby Ward for most of his 20 years of sobriety and have been entertained and enlightened at recovery meetings over the years by his story, which he delivers with self-deprecating humor illuminated by a megawatt smile.
So it was with great anticipation that I drove over to the UAMS Psychiatric Hospital in early October to pay him a visit. Bobby is a clinical director for substance abuse treatment and directs the chemical dependence outpatient programs for both marijuana and opiate prescription drug addictions.
Bobby, now happily married with three kids brings to his position plenty of “street cred” and savvy from working at two treatment centers before joining UAMS. It is an interesting background compared to that of the hospital’s largely academic staff whose members are working on a variety of groundbreaking research projects and studies.
Bobby is not an academic type, but he has all the qualifying credentials he needs hanging on the walls of his sunny office. Still, much of his education in the treatment of addictions comes from the streets.
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Celebrities Tell Their Real-life Stories of Eating Disorders and Recovery
By Gary Stromberg
and Jane Merrill
(Hazelden publishing)
Review by David Palmer
Supermarket tabloids regularly cover the addiction beat with heightened attention lately on eating disorders.
“Wasting Away. Stars Risking their Lives to be Thin” trumpets the front page of the National Enquirer supported by five pages of photos featuring rail-thin Nicole Richie, Keira Knightly, Sienna Miller and “manorexics,” Marc Anthony and Carson Daly.
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By David Palmer
 With her blonde bob and a big smile, recovering drug addict Stephenie Drake, a 34-year old ex GI from Pansy, Ark., looks happy in her sobriety.
Drake has been clean and sober eight years now, she said in a recent interview, and lives in a small trailer with her son, 9-year-old Skyler, while she attends Pulaski Tech. She has six years of college, part of it at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and is close to getting her nursing degree.
Drake began her journey to sobriety in 2002 when Arkansas CARES, a University of Arkansas for Medical Science (UAMS) program, created to treat mothers and children together in a residential setting, accepted her in its Little Rock facility.
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Why teenagers get in trouble and how four of them got out.
By David Marcus
(Houghton Mifflin)
Review by David Palmer
“Something began to churn inside Burns. It was a raw mixture of rage and fear and guilt—he didn’t know what to call it, but it was so intense that his heart pounded wildly. He felt dizzy. As he read, he lost count of how many sexual partners Mary Alice had during the month she’d kept the diary. Mary Alice herself couldn’t keep track.”
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“We put homeless veterans first.”
That’s the welcoming slogan of Little Rock’s Drop-in Day Treatment Center on Second Street.
Estella Morris, a diminutive manager with an easy smile and a quiet authority, presides over the Center which offers meals, shelter, medical care and a leg up in the world to those veterans willing to play by the rules.
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From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance
Tian Dayton, Ph.D.
Health Communications, Inc.
January 2008 $14.95
Review by David Palmer
We humans are neurologically wired to seek pleasure and avoid pain, says author Dr. Tian Dayton, and this is another reason why we are prone to self medicate with a variety of addictions.
It’s also why, given a couple of months to get used to it, many of us stick with a 12-Step program. Because, to summarize the Steps, trusting God, cleaning house and helping others becomes a pleasurable experience.
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