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Ex-Marine and Vietnam War Veteran Bob G. is the unofficial face of Recovery Central, a new Little Rock facility for 12-Step meetings, mainly Narcotics Anonymous.

An alcoholic and former methamphetamine addict, Bob sponsors more people than he can count. And he does it by the book (See The Narcotics Anonymous Step Working Guides and Working Step Four in Narcotics Anonymous).

When Bob G. is your sponsor, you can figure you’re going to spend a year working with him on the steps. And you’re going to attend meetings. And you’re going to take his “suggestions” about what else you need to do to recover.

An autobiography by Kandi Rose
Shepherds Rose Publishing

Review by David Palmer

The message on my e-mail on a late August morning read in part, “I’m a former stripper and prostitute who had multiple addictions and once owned my own Strip-O-Gram business in the Chicago area.” It sought my public support for her autobiography, “X-Rated to G-Rated Life Style” and concluded, “whatever your answer, I will take as God’s will.” It was signed “Kandi Rose.”

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 hear parents worrying about their jobs and money; they may be responsible for younger siblings; they're under pressure to do well in school and get into colleges; they're under stress to wear the right clothes, be skinny enough, good looking enough, popular enough; excel in sports, and even have a part- time job.