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Joey Pants: How I Found Serenity Joey Pants: How I Found Serenity A Together Interview By Terry A. Kirkpatrick When he was growing up on the streets of Hoboken, New Jersey, Joey’s friends couldn’t pronounce his last name, Pantoliano, so they called him “Joey Pants,” and it stuck. He believed that his route out of the projects was Hollywood – he would be a star – and at age 17 he crossed the Hudson River into Manhattan and began his training as an actor. It would...
You Can’t Take the Butter Out of a Muffin You Can’t Take the Butter Out of a Muffin 09/12/2011 By Courtenay Smith When Dr. Oz chose Brad Lamm’s book, Just 10 Pounds, to be the center of an anti-obesity initiative on his Dr. Oz Show, Lamm became one of the most famous...
Throw the Rope, Don’t Get In the Water! Throw the Rope, Don’t Get In the Water! 05/17/2011 BY BARBARA NICHOLSON-BROWN Christoper Kennedy Lawford, the first-born child of President John F. Kennedy’s sister, Patricia, and famous Rat Pack actor, Peter Lawford, grew up...
Broadway Unbound Broadway Unbound 05/02/2011 BY LESLEY LOGAN Being clean and sober for 24 hours is a miracle by any addict’s standards. As the days, months and years unfold, you hear about the promises; you hear that...
Addiction, Attunement and Hungry Ghosts Addiction, Attunement and Hungry Ghosts 03/31/2011 BY CHARLES M. YOUNG In Buddhist mythology, the hungry ghosts are exactly what they sound like: wraiths who haunt the Hell Realm, unable to escape because they can’t let go of...
A Conversation with Melody Beattie A Conversation with Melody Beattie 01/11/2011 With the publication of her first book in 1986, “Codependent No More,” Melody Beattie brought the word codependent into our popular lexicon and, more importantly, brought an...
Isolated and Lonely Isolated and Lonely 01/10/2011 Q. My husband is a retired attorney who had a very successful legal career in spite of having a drinking problem for the past 30 years. He drinks, or, more accurately, sips a half...
The Together Interview: Martin Torgoff The Together Interview: Martin Torgoff 11/16/2010 Martin Torgoff and the Great Stoned Age By Charles M. Young When Martin Torgoff quit alcohol and drugs in 1989, he took on an unusual early sobriety project: writing a...
Boyfriends and Marijuana Boyfriends and Marijuana 11/01/2010 By Vincent Casolaro & Robert Smith Q. My boyfriend and I have been together for nine years. His drinking and pot smoking have been getting progressively worse....
Considering Intervention Considering Intervention 10/18/2010 My family and I are concerned about my brother's drinking and we are considering doing an intervention. My parents are hesitant and don't like the idea of secretly meeting with an...
The Together Interview: Jerrold Mundis The Together Interview: Jerrold Mundis 09/27/2010 It seems that every time you turn on your flat-screen television (the one that’s still burning a hole in your credit card account at 30% interest) some wretched garage band is...
Mom’s Drinking Again Mom’s Drinking Again 09/01/2010 Q. I'm a Family Therapist working on a case where a mother is in the late stages of alcoholism and I could use the input of an addiction specialist. The mother is in her early 50s...
Together Interview: Lance Dodes Together Interview: Lance Dodes 07/20/2010 An Interview with Dr. Lance Dodes Lance Dodes does psychiatry the old fashioned way: He listens to people and tries to figure out what’s going on with the aid of his...
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