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You Can’t Beat the House
By Bobbe McGinley, MA, MBA, LISAC, NCGC II, CADACVirtually every major culture that exists in recorded history exhibited some manifestation of gambling. Whether it was ancient card games in China or dice-based gambling in the Roman Empire, gambling has been around for a long time. In many ancient cultures gambling was seen as a reasonable method of bloodless conflict resolution. A legend exists that around the year 1000 A.D. the King of Norway and King of Sweden peacefully settled a territorial dispute based on a few rolls of dice.
Fast forward to today, as the ...Read More
CALL TO ACTION
Arizona Recovery Housing Association urges you to call your Representative in opposition to HB 2563
Update: AzRHA and NARA are working together with other stakeholders at the legislature to find a resolution to concerns regarding Prescott and HB2563. We feel confident that the commitment of our associations to offer a self regulated industry that works with our communities and provides an important service with best practices in mind will be highlighted through this stakeholder process. We look ...Read More
What We Hold
By Dr. Marlo ArcherI can keep a secret — a lot of secrets. I can, and do, and have, kept hundreds of thousands of secrets over the course of my career.
I have not told parents their teens are sexually active, or gay. Or that they’ve tried alcohol or marijuana. I have not told the single male 4:00 p.m. client the 5:00 p.m. female client his age is also single and shares his love of Country Music and Great Danes.
I have made sure that one Tempe Police officer doesn’t pass another in my waiting room by ...Read More
Benzodiazepines: Helpful or Harmful?
The mere thought of climbing into a car sends Jenn spiraling into a state of agitation and fear.
Jenn, a 30-year-old freelance book editor who lives in North Carolina, survived two near-fatal car accidents as a teenager. Since then, she’s battled post-traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks. She has visited a therapist, and she regularly takes Zoloft, a medication that treats depression, anxiety and other conditions. But the only thing that truly quells her nerves before sliding into a vehicle’s passenger seat, she says, is Valium.
“I notice that once I go ...Read More
Sick as our Secrets
By Patricia L. Brooks, MAOMSober Truth
It is wonderful to have more than 30 years of sobriety. It is even more wonderful to have no more secrets. But ten years into my sobriety that was not the case. I was still clinging to my secrets. As part of Alcoholics Anonymous, I worked a good program, went to a lot of meetings and did service work. Strong recovery people were in my life. My standing monthly lunch date with my AA and Al-Anon women friends took priority. But I held a big secret from them.My harmful secret, my sickness really, was controlling me. I ...Read More
200% of Life
LIFE 101
By Coach Cary Bayer www.carybayer.com
Every day people talk about giving 100 percent effort; some even 150 percent. In this article, I’ll talk about two hundred percent.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who helped make meditation a household word, described 200 percent of life as being an enlightened millionaire. Buckminster Fuller said there were enough resources for everyone to live as a millionaire.
Call for State Legislation to Support an Increase in Abuse Deterrent Formulations (ADF) Allowing Chronically Ill Pain Patients Better Access to Life Giving Medication
C O M M E N T A R YBy Barby Ingle, President
Power of Pain Foundation
Over the past few years conversations on opioid use have become more about the people abusing these medications and less about the patients who use them correctly.
In the midst of abuse and diversion of prescription opioid medications, a negative spotlight is being shown to the public with attention ...Read More
The Economics of Happiness: Who Has More of it and Why?
by Debra L. Kaplan
According to a newly released report the world’s richest one percent is likely to control half of the world’s wealth by 2016.
This report, released by Oxfam, a 17-member international organization working in global collaboration to fight against world poverty, offered up this finding that was timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This figure while staggering is not a new revelation and similar reports have circulated for years acting as harbingers of an impending global financial tilt. However, ...Read More
Breaking the Silence
By Kristen L. Polin, MAEd, Community Bridges, Inc. (CBI)A New Year offers us the chance to embrace a fresh start and reflect on the lessons passing through our life. People come and go in our lives and today, I’m reflecting on my path that crossed with Lori. I’m sharing the personal journey we shared together in the hopes it will help others break through the silence and create a new beginning — before it’s too late.
I have spent my entire career focused on the prevention and education of substance use disorders. When one of my closest friends slipped down the ...Read More
All Arizona TV Stations to Simulcast ASU-Produced Special Report on Heroin
In a highly unusual collaboration, every broadcast TV station and most radio outlets across Arizona will air simultaneously a 30-minute commercial-free investigative report produced by Arizona State University student journalists on the ...Read More
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Guest/Monthly Columnists
Bobbe McGinley MA, MBA, CADAC, LISAC, NCGC II, is a nationally known speaker, author, presenter and trainer.
Richard Serna
Richard is the Recovery Chef
