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		<title>Let’s Clear The Air About Marijuana in the Workplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, I speak with hundreds of business owners and managers around the state about drug and alcohol issues at work. One of the topics that now comes up regularly is how to deal with employees holding medical marijuana cards. The importance of this issue is growing as the number of people holding cards accelerates. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17544869&#038;post=733&#038;subd=serenitylaneblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the End, The House Always Comes Out Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the life of almost every alcoholic or addict, there’s a moment when something happens to their thinking. It changes their lives. It’s much like flipping a switch. They’re drinking or using, and they suddenly have feelings they’ve rarely if ever felt before. Worries and social anxieties disappear and they feel smart, powerful and in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17544869&#038;post=727&#038;subd=serenitylaneblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s the Thinking That Gets You</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Serenity Lane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alcohol]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chemical dependency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In more than 30 years of working with friends, family and employers of alcoholics and addicts, I’ve heard the story many times. A person gets clean and sober. His or her life improves dramatically. And then&#8230;they slip or go into full-blown relapse. In the frustration and anger that follows, families, friends and employers often ask [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17544869&#038;post=715&#038;subd=serenitylaneblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Catastrophic Loss of Talent</title>
		<link>http://serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/a-catastrophic-loss-of-talent-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times when those of us in the field of drug treatment can feel a little like Cassandra, the woman in Greek myth whose warnings fell on deaf ears. It&#8217;s not because people don&#8217;t care about drug abuse &#8211; they do &#8211; but because we&#8217;ve talked about it for so long. Then something tragic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17544869&#038;post=710&#038;subd=serenitylaneblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mindset Essential To Positive Change</title>
		<link>http://serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/the-mindset-essential-to-positive-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Serenity Lane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[resolutions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s something about January 1 that makes many of us think of fresh starts and clean slates. We have high hopes for behaviors we want to change. It’s a time for new beginnings. It’s resolution time. If we want to be successful, there’s one fundamental mistake we’ll need to avoid. For many, it’s so much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17544869&#038;post=695&#038;subd=serenitylaneblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Managing The Most Intense Time of the Year</title>
		<link>http://serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/managing-the-most-intense-time-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Serenity Lane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com/?p=684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For many people, the next few weeks will be, as the old song says, “the most wonderful time of the year” &#8212; a time of good food, beautiful decorations, get-togethers with family and friends, and generous giving. For others, the season will be very challenging &#8212; a time of difficult family gatherings, out-of-control drinking and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17544869&#038;post=684&#038;subd=serenitylaneblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Tailgate Parties Safe this Season</title>
		<link>http://serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/keeping-tailgate-parties-safe-this-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Serenity Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the fall comes football season and that great American tradition: the tailgate party. It’s a party, all right: outside a stadium with 25,000 of your new best friends, anticipating the game (which your team wins), enjoying the fall weather, eating good food. And of course, drinking alcohol &#8212; often, in excess. In that environment, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17544869&#038;post=679&#038;subd=serenitylaneblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Their Drug of Choice Comes from Your Medicine Cabinet</title>
		<link>http://serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/when-their-drug-of-choice-comes-from-your-medicine-cabinet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Serenity Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the time of year when many young people head off to college. Parents hope that they’ve influenced their sons and daughters to avoid problems with alcohol and other drugs – but also know they won’t be hard to find. Yes, alcohol is illegal for anyone under 21 and marijuana is illegal for anyone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17544869&#038;post=669&#038;subd=serenitylaneblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie Sheen’s Train Wreck Painful to Watch</title>
		<link>http://serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/charlie-sheen%e2%80%99s-train-wreck-painful-to-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Serenity Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months, our national attention has been focused on Egypt, Libya, disaster in Japan, the rising price of gas and &#8230; Charlie Sheen? No matter what world-shaping events are happening, we seem fascinated with watching the soap opera of celebrity living. As a treatment professional with three decades of experience — and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17544869&#038;post=655&#038;subd=serenitylaneblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Growth Can Be Challenging for an Addict</title>
		<link>http://serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/spiritual-growth-can-be-challenging-for-an-addict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, most treatment centers combine three disciplines to help patients into recovery. Staff doctors and nurses address medical problems. Team psychiatrists and counselors tackle mental challenges. And for spiritual issues, there are 12-step meetings and volunteers who use “the program” to maintain sobriety. Some centers even have chaplains. The first two areas aren’t particularly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=serenitylaneblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17544869&#038;post=653&#038;subd=serenitylaneblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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