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Clancy and the Bear Dance: One Ute Mountain Boy’s Journey from Alcoholism and Abuse to Wholeness!

CHILDRENS ALCOHOL, ABUSE AND RECOVERY (PAPERBACK) By Juanita Adams, (Retired) M.A., M.F.T., C.A.C.: Although this beautiful story is set next to Ute Mountain in Towaoc, Colorado (United States), it is a story that can be universally understood by anyone in any part of the world. The author tells the tale of Clancy, a young Ute Mountain (Native American) boy who lives in a home filled with chaos, abuse and alcoholism with his mom, dad and little sister; but not for long, because dad’s behavior fo

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Can You Survive A Relapse From Drug And Alcohol Recovery?

Due to the frequency with which they occur, knowing what to do in the event of a relapse is an essential part of a relapse prevention plan.

First things first; don’t let guilt and shame paralyze you into inaction because you have had a slip or relapse. Unfortunately, in recovery, as in life, pain can be a valuable learning experience. The trick is to use the experience to get back into recovery and emerge from the experience even stronger.

Here are 5 tips to help you turn it around:

1. Don’t give in to despair.

It is an attractive rationalization to believe that you have just proved you can’t do this. If you believe you can’t do something, then what is the point in trying? Go down that road and you’re off to the races on a progressive path of destruction.

Watch this 2 minute Fox News Interview with Julie Gundlach who was recently diagnosed with Mesothelioma.
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Dr. Blake Pearson, neurosurgeon from Brookwood Medical Center, discusses neck pain issues. Fox 6 Ask the Doc, July 26, 2010.
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Question by j_mang: wife is flipping out on me after 14 years about old problems. i think she is suffering from depression.?
My wife and I got married 14 years ago. I was working as a marine biologist and wasn’t making much money. I had to have help from my parents at first just to make the rent. I decided to try something different and we moved so I could go to engineering school. I moved her away from her family. We had a child and moved again, another child and moved again, and moved again always trying to get a better job and do better for my family. However, in all of this moving and trying to make bigger bucks and chasing rainbows, I didn’t take into account the emotional damage I was doing by keeping her away from her mother and sisters. I continually looked for a job near them but was unsuccessful. We started having money problems about 5 years ago even though I was making pretty good money. I found out that we didn’t have money because she was spending it all on “substance abuse” – and later alcohol to dull her pain… Her family moved to our town after Katrina. Now she is hating me…
She stopped abusing substances and starting abusing alcohol without my knowledge about a year ago. I didn’t know because I work 14 hours a day 6 days a week trying to do the right thing by my family. She exploded in a drunken rage and told me she wanted a separation and out of this marriage. Even though the root problem of being away from her family is gone, the pain seems to still be fresh. I’ve made her a doctor appt and given her a counselor to call. I think this all stems from untreated post partum depression about 5 years ago. I just don’t know what to do. I can’t even describe how much I love this woman and don’t want to lose her. I feel pretty sure that she has not ever cheated and don’t believe this is the issue. She is just hating me now and won’t talk about anything. She is blaming me for all her problems and is unapproachable. I am trying to give her time to work things out but am so miserable. I quit my second job and took over our finances. Anyone been through
Has anyone ever had a spouse just flip out on you – after the fact? Resentment built up from the past? Could this stem from clinical depression? Has anyone ever been through anything like this and what did you do? All I can do right now is just give her time and space to decide what she wants to do. Our 2 beautiful smart kids are involved, so a divorce is the last option. I need a little advice. No she is not cheating and I never have either. Her anger is overwhelming, though, it is like I cheated on her with 1000 women… I don’t feel like I deserve this. I moved us around the country so that we could do better financially and I did not see the other damage I was doing. She is not very communicative and is very independent – or at least puts up a good front and likes to believe she is independent.

Child Custody Cases Get Needed Support From Hair Alcohol Testing

Hair drug testing has been around for more than 10 years but hair alcohol testing has just recently been unveiled as a significant piece of evidence for child custody cases. Previously, if a parent was accused of being an alcoholic or an abuser of alcohol, a urine alcohol test was given but the alcohol concentration was not always accurate and what’s more, is that the urinalysis test only showed up to a weeks worth of abuse- not providing the courts the evidence they needed say of six months minimum or a years worth of evidence being ideal. With the new alcohol testing device of hair alcohol testing, courts can now see a person’s range of alcohol use up to 12 months!