The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday August 17th, 2023
How To Convince An Addict To Get Help by Stan Popovich
There are many reasons why people who use drugs and alcohol do not get the help they need to overcome their addictions and other issues.
Some family members who see the people they love struggle may have a difficult time in getting them assistance.
As a result, here are seven suggestions on how to convince a person struggling with drugs and alcohol to get help.
1. A family intervention could work: The most popular way to get someone the help they need is to do a family intervention. This is when family members and an interventionist get together with the person to tell them how much they love them and that they need to get some assistance. The person whose having a hard time listens and hopefully they become convinced to get the treatment they need.
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Heaven and Earth by George Cassidy Payne
“I am left timeless. My skin is timeless.
Like the rusty mercury gauge in an old Chevy.”
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Edmond Privat by Rene Wadlow
17 August is the birth anniversary of Edmond Privat in 1889 − a leading world citizen of the first wave of world citizen action closely associated with the League of Nations. It was natural for Privat, a citizen of Geneva, to be drawn to the efforts of the League of Nations.
He served from 1923 to 1927 as the vice-delegate for Iran. In the early League days, many States did not have a permanent representative to the League and so named an “intellectual personality” to represent the country. Privat also worked at different times at the League as an interpreter from English to French. In those days, there was no simultanious interpretation but only consequtive interpretation. The interpreter, standing near the speaker had to convey some of the same drama in his voice. Privat was an experienced orator, one of the first to make regular radio broadcasts and so was much appreciated as an interpreter. At the time, the League Secretariat staff was small, and there was a good deal of interaction among the staff and the government delegates. Thus Privat, already a political journalist, could follow closely world events and the League efforts.
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Always something; the family edition #068 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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