Online Drug Abuse

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What chance do our youth have when they are bombarded with TV ads for pharmaceuticals and tempted by easy access to drugs on the web? Many youth can easily buy Xanax in the school yard while others surf the web to learn about heroin or simple ways to make methamphetamine. Teenage years are already difficult. It is asking a lot for our teens to make it safely through the pharmaceutical gauntlet as they travel their most difficult years.

We must step up our efforts at drug education, but what about those youth who have fallen into the trap of abuse and have already gotten in trouble with the law? What are we to do with them? We are after all, as a society, responsible for the temptations that we are allowing at every hand.

Apparently, most Americans recognize this responsibility and are willing to do something about it.

A recent survey shows that most U.S. taxpayers feel that youth offenders can be rehabilitated and that failing to do so is giving up on their future.

70 percent of Americans surveyed view imprisoning young offenders without rehabilitation negatively. 90 percent believe that young offenders can change if given the chance.

Another survey found that Americans are willing to pay more in taxes in order to rehabilitate our youth.

Jonathan Fanton, president of the John D. and Catherine T. Foundation (which funded the survey) state “The public understands that youth in trouble with the law are not lost, and that working with them to solve problems is a better approach to public safety than just locking them up.”

Learn where your candidates stand on this issue and let them know where you stand at election time.

Please do your part by providing effective drug education to your family and social groups. If you need materials, we will provide them for you.

If you know someone who has already become addicted we can help them too, with our effective drug rehabilitation program.

We are Narconon – The New Life Program.

Prescription Medication

What’s In Your Medicine Cabinet?

If you have Oxycodone in the cabinet and kids in the house, beware. According to scientists at Rockefeller University adolescents are more likely to become addicted to Oxycodone than adults.

http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2008/oxycodone-more-addictive-for.html

The research was done on mice and though we cannot be sure that adolescent humans react the same as adolescent mice, common sense dictates that drugs and developing brains are not a good combination.

Regardless of the obvious physical developmental problems for addicted kids, mental and ethical development is also stunted. When they should be learning life’s important lessons and opening the books, these kids are busy hunting drugs so they don’t have to experience the anguish of withdrawal. Fighting withdrawal can be an all consuming job, with time for little else.

Some kids get off drugs and open their eyes to the world, only to realize that they haven’t been to a movie or really had a good time for years. A frequent comment is “I didn’t know I could have this much fun straight.”

Life is great without pills. Give your kids the chance to learn this and lock up the prescription medicine.

If they have already gotten on the path of addiction, get them off fast and call Narconon

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Prescription Drug Abuse

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According to USA Today “Spending on direct-to consumer advertising of prescription drugs continues to rise, but a new study suggests it might not always be a wise investment.” The article goes on to explain that the 4.24 billion dollars that the pharmaceutical companies spent in 2005 on advertising might not have resulted in an increase in sales of pharmaceuticals from those advertisements. Well, all that marketing has resulted in something.

Regardless of what the study shows on sales trends, it is a fact that since direct to consumer advertising of drugs has increased, so has the abuse of pharmaceuticals. The numbers of deaths from prescription medication, whether it was obtained illegally or illegally has been on the rise. Kids have learned enough about pharmaceutical medication to have “pharm parties” and many have learned to buy Xanax online.

We don’t know for sure that TV ads are the cause of these increases, but what else could it be? The voice of pharmaceutical advantage seems to be much louder and more clear that the voice of drug abuse prevention.

Someone is talking to our kids about prescription medication. Prescription drug abuse can be deadly.

Regardless of who is talking to our kids, we need to have the last word.

Keep your kids safe.

If someone you know is abusing

prescription medication then call 877-413-3073.

Peer Pressure

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omments on Peer influence regarding drinking

Join together is reporting some good news – college students can have a positive influence on their peers when it comes to alcohol consumption.

Now that something workable has been discovered, why not capitalize on it? Peer training for those who want to have a positive influence on their fellows would be a good place to start. Probably most college students would want the opportunity to positively affect a life, were they given the chance. Peer training on how to encourage sobriety would be a good place to start. Narconon drug prevention program has a component that does this.

Here is the article:

“Just one personalized intervention session from a fellow college student was effective in reducing alcohol consumption among heavy drinkers on campus, according to a new study from the Netherlands.

The Health Behavior News Service reported Jan. 27 that researchers led by Heleen Riper, Ph.D., of the Trimbos Institute in Utrecht found that one in eight of the students who received peer feedback about how their drinking aligned with norms among other college students later reduced their consumption to normal levels. The success rate compared favorably to similar interventions conducted by mental-health professionals.

"This is the most minimum intervention possible and the results were better than we thought," said Riper, who noted that peer feedback could even be delivered by mobile phone or online. Riper said that student-to-student intervention "allows people to compare their own drinking to their own peer group, and you leave a lot of space for their own responsibility. You approach it more from a health point of view and comparison than from an approach of 'it's forbidden to drink alcohol.' I think that¹s a good motivation."”

The findings will appear in the March 2009 issue of the American

http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2009/peer-advice-helps-cut-heavy.html

Binge Drinking

WIZARDS THAT AREN’T VERY SMART

We need the next generation to prepare itself for leadership by gaining knowledge through study. This is a little harder to do with an impaired mind. In other words, we don’t need binge drinking in high school and college.

Apparently, according to research, binge drinkers suffer from memory impairment and possible physical harm to their still forming brains.

“Researcher Thomas Heffernan and colleagues from NorthColumbria University and Kent University gave memory tests to a group of 26 binge drinkers ages 17-19 to a group of 34 non binge drinkers. The male binge drinkers consumed at least eight units of alcohol at one sitting, while the women had at least six units at one time.” (Reported by Join Together)

There are other obvious possible distractions to the binge drinker such as car accidents, DUIs and arrests – not helpful in preparing for the future or studying for exams.

Alcohol has always been around campuses – however it seemed like the majority of the students had enough sense to not ruin their lives through binge drinking and it was the minority that wasn’t really expected to set the world on fire anyway. With the recent “wizard stick” parties being promoted on the internet, we cannot assume that this is now the case. Someone needs to take heed and provide drug and alcohol education and enlighten these kids in a way that communicates.

If you need drug education brochures, we will provide them for you. If you know someone who is binge drinking they need help. Call us and we will help you get them help. We can help with interventions too.

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http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2008/wizard-stick-parties-a.html

Underage Drinking

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NOTHING TO CHEER ABOUT

More and more kids are getting arrested for underage drinking. Many of these kids come from affluent neighborhoods and are popular kids. One such girl, recently featured in a newspaper article, had been a cheerleader and very much part of the “in crowd” at her school. This pretty cheerleader recently found herself in handcuffs and sentenced to probation.

In a recent statewide survey 25 percent of high school seniors admit to binge drinking at least once in the last month. (Binge drinking is defined as having five or more drinks at one episode.)

56 percent of the kids said that they had used alcohol in the last month.

Why are so many kids drinking and why are some drinking themselves into oblivion?

In the case of the pretty cheerleader she said she was bored. When drinking is the thing to do, kids don’t develop the ability create activities that don’t involve alcohol. Life can appear boring, because they simply have not learned that there is a big world out there and lots of opportunity for adventure. Living life to the fullest is an art, which for some, needs to be developed.

Unless this art is developed before adulthood, life may be short and miserable for many of our bright kids.

There are solutions. It starts with the family. Talk to your kids and learn the truth about their life and how they feel about it. Introduce them to activities.

Let’s change what the “in crowd’ is doing so the “in crowd” makes it into adult years and can become the leaders in society we will need.

If you know someone who needs help with alcohol treatment and recovery, call Narconon of Georgia at 877-413-3073.

Shrinking your brain with alcohol

ALCOHOL AND THE BRAIN

Now we learn that even a little bit of alcohol

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can make the brain shrink.

This article is for those who drink because “it is good for me”, but really are hoping that no one is noticing that they are drinking a little too much.

The barrier around the brain, which nature put there to keep out viruses and other things that can hurt the brain, does not keep out alcohol. Therefore it makes sense that even a little bit of alcohol would shrink the brain. No one needs to tell us that a lot of alcohol does bad things to the brain – we have all seen people who have drunk so much that they appear to have no brain at all.

Alcohol does a lot of other damage to the body and in fact is the most debilitating of substances, when abused long term. The liver especially can be damaged to the point of no return when someone is a severe alcoholic.

Loss of friends, family and job also frequently accompany the heavy drinker down the road of destruction.

Heavy drinkers seem to hope that the next drink will deliver them some place other than the hell that they are in – but as Johny Cash described it “I went down, down, down and the flames got higher.” No one can drink their way out of a problem – though they may drink themselves right out of life.

If you know someone who has a drinking problem, get them some help NOW before they get into so much trouble that they can’t be helped.

Call Narconon 877-413-3073 We are the New Life Program

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/14/healthmag.alcohol.b