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By Nick Reding
Reviewed by Bill Kauffman
Published in the Wall Street Journal on June 9, 2009
Oelwein, Iowa, pronounced “Ol Wine,” is a small city of about 6,700 souls in northeast Iowa that Jay Leno reportedly once called “possibly the worst place in the world.” There are those who love it, though, and the effort of these faithful Oelweiners to revive their methamphetamine-dazed town is the subject of Nick Reding’s “Methland.”
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Read more... [Methland - The Heartland's Home Cooking]
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The straight dope for parents
By Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Fireside, a division of Simon & Schuster
Reviewed by David Palmer
Near the end of Joseph Califano’s book, “How to raise a Drug Free Kid,” the author quotes a father who wrote, “Like so many parents, we didn’t heed the warning signs. We found an empty beer bottle in the backyard, we smelled pot on his clothes, we found an unidentifiable pill in the laundry room; we chalked these things up to normal teen behavior, but we were wrong.
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Read more... [How to Raise a Drug Free Kid]
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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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Read more... [12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery]
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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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Read more... [How Starbucks Saved My Life]
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A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
How to heal the underlying causes
How to end relapse
How to end suffering
By Chris Prentiss
Power Press, $15.95
Review by David Palmer
Chris Prentiss, who operates a pricey treatment center in Malibu called Passages, has been running numerous spots on TV urging people to buy his book, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure.
Concerned about what seemed to be extravagant claims inherent in the title, I bought the book on Amazon and settled down for a read.
My conclusion? It’s definitely not for me and probably not for you.
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Read more... [Alcoholism and Addiction Cure]
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