Debt

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TRILLIONS IN DEBT AND NO ONE SOBER ENOUGH TO PAY IT BACK

Obama and company can find a way to pour trillions into the economy and nobody can help watch after the kids? Certainly, an advocacy group that is trying to protect our kids from alcohol abuse is a group worth supporting. At the very least it should mean less expenditure of public funds on health issues due to alcohol abuse in the future.

Chances are that not only will the future generation be burdened with the huge debt we are creating for them now, many of them will be burdened with the alcohol addiction that started from watching commercials at an early age.

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“In a move that has stunned members of the addiction community, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) announced earlier this month that it has cut all of its Alcohol Policies Project staff except longtime director George Hacker, effectively ending the only full-time advocacy effort on alcohol policy issues on Capitol Hill.

Citing "extreme budget constraints," Hacker said in a letter to field colleagues that staffers Kim Crump, Christina Mott, and Aggie Fortune were laid off in mid-April. "Each of them has made long-standing substantial contributions to our advocacy work and I know they have been extremely valuable assets for the entire alcohol-prevention field," wrote Hacker on April 2. "No one will miss them more than I."

Hacker, who will continue to run the scaled-down Alcohol Policies Project, but also spend time working on unrelated CSPI programs, said that the group's advocacy on alcohol-tax issues and the Campaign for Alcohol-Free Sports TV would continue "at least for the present."

However, CSPI's advocacy work on issues like underage drinking will be severely curtailed. "The breadth of the project will be severely limited," said Hacker.

Judy Cushing, president and CEO of the Oregon Partnership -- a statewide community coalition that also has taken a leading role on national alcohol-advertising issues -- said she was "devastated" by the news of CSPI's downsizing. "Their policy work is critical in our efforts to continue to reduce underage drinking," she said.

David Jernigan, former head of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY), called CSPI's contributions "incalculable" and described the cutbacks as "a significant setback to the field."

CSPI founded the Alcohol Policies Project in 1982, and Hacker and his staff -- which has at times numbered as high as eight people -- have played a huge role as both industry gadfly and critic and advocates for higher alcohol taxes and greater controls on alcohol advertising to youth.

Ironically, the Alcohol Policies Project has been put on life-support at a moment when states and the federal government have started seriously considering increases in alcohol taxes (to close budget deficits and pay for national healthcare reform, respectively), and advocates are talking to a new administration in Washington that seems more receptive to calls for increased regulation than its recent predecessors.

"We've all depended on CSPI for a long time," said Michael Scippa, advocacy director of the Marin Institute. "This is kind of a wakeup call to advocates of all kinds that we may need to include more trips to Washington, D.C., in our travel plans."

Scippa said that CSPI's cutbacks created a "vacuum" in Washington. "The industry loves it," he lamented. That vacuum has been growing in the past year with the June 2008 shutdown of the Georgetown University-based CAMY and the elimination of more than half of the staff at Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, the George Washington University Medical Center program that focuses on screening and treatment availability for alcohol problems.

Eric Goplerud, Ph.D., director of Ensuring Solutions, called the news about CSPI "grim."

"After the great achievements to secure parity, screening and brief intervention (SBI), and overturning UPPL [laws] in many states, the field will need new policy leadership," said Goplerud. "Hazelden's new Policy Center and the Johnson Institute merger with them, Tom McLellan's nomination to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the coalitions of the Whole Health Campaign and [Legal Action Center head] Paul Samuels' health reform work group will be the sources ... I am optimistic the leadership is arising."

In addition, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion recently solicited applications for a program that would fund monitoring of youth exposure to alcohol ads, similar to the work previously done by CAMY. And Scippa -- who said that Marin's funding base remains "very healthy" -- said that his group is currently looking for ways to increase its advocacy presence in the nation's capital.

"It's actually an interesting opportunity to organize when something like this happens," he said. "Groups need to pay more attention to the national level rather than just the local."

"Hopefully, the field will continue to be able to focus on these issues," said CSPI's Hacker, who noted that action on state alcohol taxes, for example, "has been happening on the local level and to a large degree without [CSPI]."

"With so many states in deficit and the federal government looking for hundreds of billions of dollars for healthcare reform, there is some hope for increases in taxes on alcoholic beverages

http://www.jointogether.org/news/features/2009/cspi-layoffs-latest-setback.html”

Making A Difference

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SOMEONE MAKING A DIFFERENCE

It is great to know that in the midst of the pharm party pandemonium in this country that there are drug counselors who get it and are doing something about it. One person like Mr. Guest can make a big difference in many lives.

We really can do something about the drug situation and a little caring goes a long ways.

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GREENSBORO — Will Guest has heard it all.

He’s 28, an amiable Midwesterner with gel-spiked hair and a small gold loop through his left ear. He runs The Insight Program, which helps local teenagers and young adults overcome drug and alcohol addiction.

So, he knows about Pharm Parties. It’s when teenagers get together, dump someone’s prescription meds into a bowl and start popping them into their mouths like candy corn to get that rush.

He also knows his own dance with addiction.

He was a good student, a star on the football team who dated the homecoming queen. He had planned to play football at the University of Kansas. But his addictions got him arrested and kicked out of his house and his high school.

He first smoked marijuana, then drank alcohol, downed pills and snorted cocaine. It started when he was 13.

Today, he’s trained and 10 years sober. He works with clients from 13 to 23, and he often shares his story when someone starts making some sort of concession like, “I’ve stopped getting high, but I smoke weed now and again.”

These days, Guest hears a lot about abusing pills. It’s the nation’s new epidemic.

According to folks who know, nearly one in five teens has tried prescription medication to get high. That’s 19 percent — or 4.5 million teens — who’ve downed Ritalin or Adderall, Vicodin or OxyContin.

That information, plucked from a 2006 survey, comes from the Partnership for a Drug Free America.

Listen to Guest and you realize the new pusher in town could be your very own medicine cabinet. The drugs are easy to get and even easier to conceal. Guest’s young clients tell him they take pills for all kinds of reasons: to deal with school or a breakup, the need to communicate or fit in.

But mostly, they just want to see what happens when they dabble with pills named R-Ball, Skippy and Hillbilly Heroin.

Some kick their habit. Some don’t. Guest knows them all.

Here’s one. Let’s call him Alex.

Alex was 18, a Guilford County high school student addicted to the painkiller OxyContin. He was doing well, talking frankly in Guest’s support group or in Guest’s office, sitting across from him in a cushy chair.

But when Alex got out of Insight’s treatment program, he relapsed and started using again. Alex later died. He had taken too much OxyContin.

“It sucked,’’ says Guest, his voice rising. “But it could have been any one of them. There are 60 kids in the support group, and it could have been any one of them.’’

On Thursday night, Guest will join a school resource officer, a pharmacist and an emergency room doctor at a forum put together by two groups on the front lines: Alcohol and Drug Services and the Guilford County Substance Abuse Coalition.

They’ll talk about the need for education to unravel the denial they see most everywhere. They’ll also share their own personal stories.

Like the one about Alex.

“Kids are so much in denial,’’ Guest says. “But instead of waiting until they’re 30 and hitting the bottom, parents can be the loving, logical force in their lives. Everything comes down to the love of the parents. That’s huge.’’

That happened to Guest. After eight weeks in a treatment program in Arizona, after seven months of getting his head straight, Guest came home to make amends with his parents. It happened over dinner. It’s a conversation Guest will always remember.

“That was the hardest thing we ever did,’’ Guest’s mom, an emergency room nurse, told her son about kicking him out of the house. “But I’m glad we did it.’’

“You saved my life,’’ Guest responded.

http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/04/27/article/family_medicine_cabinet_is_the_new_drug_dealer

Demand Reduction

DEMAND REDUCTION

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The only solution long term for the drug abuse situation in this country is going to be by demand reduction. Obama is correct in recognizing that effective treatment will help cut the demand for drugs. It has become obvious that jail or prison time does not cut down the demand. More and more prisons have been built over the last decade and they seem to keep filling up with drug addicts. No – the thought of jail is not stronger than addiction.

If we are going to promote drug treatment instead of incarceration, it is obvious that we must push EFFECTIVE TREATMENT. With many programs having low stats in terms of long term recovery, it is imperative that we do all we can to ensure that offenders are sent to good programs. Otherwise, the attempt at treatment rather than incarceration will appear to not be the answer and we will go back to building prisons.

Here is a recent article in join together.:

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2009/obama-puts-drug-war-focus-on.html

“Recent comments by President Barack Obama and drug-czar nominee Gil Kerlikowske indicate that the War on Drugs could see a significant shift in focus from supply reduction to reducing demand by investing in more prevention and treatment, CNN reported April 18.

Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano have both indicated that the administration won't consider legalizing drugs, but Obama pledged in meetings with Mexican President Felipe Calderon to do more to cut U.S. demand for drugs being smuggled across the border with Mexico.

"Demand for these drugs in the United States is what is helping to keep these cartels in business," said Obama. "Now, are we going to eliminate all drug flows? Are we going to eliminate all guns coming over the border? That's not a realistic objective," he said. "What is a realistic objective is to reduce it so significantly, so drastically that it becomes once again a localized criminal problem, as opposed to a major structural problem that threatens stability in communities along those borders."

Both the White House and Congress want to invest more money in drug courts that divert offenders into treatment rather than prison. "The success of our efforts to reduce the flow of drugs is largely dependent on our ability to reduce demand for them," Kerlikowske said during his recent confirmation hearing in the Senate. "It requires prosecutors and law enforcement, courts, treatment providers and prevention programs to exchange information and to work together. And our priority should be a seamless, comprehensive approach."

But advocates want to see more investment in treatment for those outside the criminal-justice system, too. "For individuals who don't have the resources, don't have public health insurance, can't afford it themselves, the single best way that they can access treatment is to get arrested," said Ryan King of the Sentencing Project. "And that's wrong. What we need to do is make sure for every American that is abusing drugs and wants to stop, that they have the resources made available to them, regardless of whether they can afford them."

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Bars Removed

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Bars Removed With Opportunity Waiting Outside

Finally, the draconian laws regarding the arrests and incarceration of drug addicts have been removed and replaced with something more humane – a chance a drug treatment.  It is also a more economically sound solution since a productive citizen costs the tax payers nothing and incarceration of one person can cost up to 40,000 dollars a year.

We need to ensure that the drug treatment centers and methods made available to these arrestees have a proven track record- i.e. they get results.  The worst thing that could happen would be failure at this new solution.  As incarceration and treatment are the only solutions, there would be nowhere to go with the problem.  It is already known and evident that incarceration simply does not work.  NARCONON 877-413-3073

“A bill that would send more non-violent drug offenders to probation and addiction treatment centers instead of prison will become law in New York Friday. Governor David Paterson will sign the Rockefeller Drug Law reform bill Friday morning. Since the early 1970's, courts have had to hand down minimum prison sentences for certain drug offenses. But the Governor and lawmakers say that put too many people behind bars. Its hoped that the move will allow police to go after big time drug pushers, instead of dealing with smaller ones.”
http://www.newschannel34.com/news/local/story/Rockefeller-Drug-Law/iJKrtZvL3kKFKIZqkm7rFQ.cspx

Realization

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NARCONON REALIZATION

Here is another Narconon realization, written in the hopes that it will touch someone who has given up hope that drug treatment works. It can work.

“While I was working with my buddy I found an ease to perform and work with him. There is no confusion with my environment and my connection with it. Everything is actually wonderful.

I am aware that no matter where I go I must be cognizant of me and that where I go effects me. At times, the locations I go to might not be of my choice. I need to make sure that they are suitable to me once I get there. Also I need to accept every part of me as I am.

Have a great day. I’m extremely happy and aware.”

Whether a person has been abusing crack cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, pot, or any drug of abuse, Narconon drug treatment walks them down the same road – the one that leads out of addiction. Narconon is the new life program 877-413-3073

Happiness

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NARCONON REALIZATION

Here is a Narconon realization for the day from a Narconon drug treatment student. He is hoping that addicts read this because he knows that it is very important to talk with someone who has walked the path. He wants you to know that there is the opportunity for you to leave the confusion of your mind and gain your true position in life.

Happiness that you can share is truth and honestly with others. Here is the success:

“Everything and everyone that I am in contact with is within my control. I control when the interaction occurs, for how long in which direction, if the interaction needs to change and if so how, when where degree etc. I also control when it stops.

From now on my first priority in everything in my world will be that I must be positive for me and to fit my moral and ethical codes, health opportunity and circle of influence.

I can and will forever be conscious of impulse reactions (avoiding them) and life my life with the aforementioned decisions.

It is amazing as my buddy and I have gone through this course – the yesterdays and errors of my drug use have been pushed far away from me and really let me look at getting involved with all the life around me.

I enthusiastically want to continue to chase life.

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Intervention

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NTERVENTION

It would be nice to tell you that I did it on my own. It would be nice to tell you that I made some spiritual breakthrough and saved myself, but the fact is that I didn't. "

These are the actual words of someone whose life was saved through an intervention.

Many of us have heard of intervention and have perhaps seen the TV show INTERVENTION. In this reality program, a professional interventionist works with the family and addict to get the addict to agree to rehab. The interventionist does a good job, often rescuing the family and addict from a living hell within the one hour allotted for the show. Is it any wonder that many wish for a fairy godmother that will provide a happy ending before the final commercial break?
Successful approaches that result in treatment for the addict happen within the framework of an intervention; that is a family meeting. These meetings must be carefully planned beforehand. A family that has already been through hours of defiance, despair, rage, arguments, threats and tears, may have difficulty with this careful planning. Fortunately, help is available.
Some families may be more confident with the help of an outside interventionist. The person chosen should have a good track record and access to a rehab program with a high recovery rate that is immediately available. (Narconon of Georgia will admit eligible candidates immediately.) The family should feel comfortable with the personality of the interventionist.
An intervention with proper planning and carried out correctly will result many times in an addict agreeing to receive help. Call us. We will send you written a written intervention study guide, coach your family and help with planning where all possible scenarios are thought out and prepared for. And for those special situations where you need an outside interventionist, we can help you with that too. The point is - YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS SITUATION AND CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER.
"My family and friends guided me and forced me into rehab and for that I will be forever grateful because I am alive. I live. I enjoy every day now, especially knowing where I would have been had I been allowed to go where the drugs were leading me. My family's help will always be a debt I owe because without it I'd be gone."
Here are a few suggestions from those who have done successful interventions.

Choose an appropriate rehab program before the intervention and ensure that there is immediate availability. Workable rehab prevents relapse.
Decide who is going to be there. Family members or friends that the addict knows well and respects should be there, not those who will only create hostility because of their own anger towards the addict.
Help the addict identify reasons that they must get help. These reasons must be real to the addict. There are issues that are significant and devastating to the addict - get them to talk about them.
Force the addict out of their "addiction comfort zone". An addict who is being provided money, a car and a place to freely live and do drugs is not likely to quit. Let the addict know they will no longer receive this type of assistance. Take away any "help" that is actually killing the person.
The optimum time for an intervention is just after a major event, such as an incarceration, job loss or spouse leaving. It should be done when the addict is sober
The tone of the intervention should be one of concern and love, but not sympathy. It must be unwavering in communicating that the family will no longer standby and watch the addict kill themselves.
Have a staff member from the chosen rehab available if possible, if there is no interventionist.
Before the intervention, have the addict's bags packed and travel arrangements made. There should be no delay.

 

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