Consider the Drug Treatment

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CONSIDER THE DRUG TREATMENT CENTERS ALSO

Recognizing that society and individuals are not served well by locking up most drug addicts is a major shift in public philosophy that has been a long coming.

While the focus is going from prison to drug court, we need to include drug treatment centers in our view. For years, many drug treatment centers have been successful at returning individuals to society as drug free and productive. They and their dedicated staff need to be recognized and supported. As the shift away from prisons is occurring, we need to make sure that the drug treatment centers stay around.

We are going to need them.

“Many crimes are rooted in alcohol and drug addictions. Yet, too often, nonviolent offenders are simply sent to jail and not treated for the addiction problems that led them there.

When we release individuals with untreated addictions back into communities, they usually return to their friends, their habits, and their crimes.

More than half of those in the criminal justice system who complete treatment programs and participate in aftercare do not commit new crimes. Most prisoners who serve mandatory sentences, but get no treatment, commit new crimes and start using drugs or alcohol soon after release.

Drug courts are designed to help people with addictions who are facing criminal charges get through treatment and recover from their addiction. Their basic premise is to leverage the authority of the criminal-justice system to keep defendants in treatment, recognizing that the recovery process may well include lapses and relapses, but the longer a person stays in treatment, the greater chance he/she has for sustained recovery.

While the participant is enrolled in the drug court, final disposition of the criminal charges is suspended and -- depending upon the participant's ultimate success or failure -- may be dismissed or otherwise changed.

It is widely recognized that drug courts result in varying degrees of reduced recidivism and cost savings for the criminal-justice system, and are most effective with high-risk, defendants with a long history of addictions.

In addition, drug courts produce many other societal benefits, including increased coordination and delivery of public health and mental health services, vocational training and job placement which increase the likelihood of sustained recovery.  “

http://www.jointogether.org/keyissues/incarceration/treatment-vs-incarceration-readmore.html

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Like Father Like Son

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LIKE FATHER LIKE SON

Working in the field of drug treatment I have found that often the children of drug addicts become drug abusers themselves. Unless there is a strong outside influence such as a grandmother, the family of a peer or a teacher the path to addiction has no barriers for the children of addicts.

The kindest thing we can do for these children is to ensure that every school in the nation is providing effective drug education and that we somehow make addicted parents eligible for effective drug treatment.

7.3 children is a lot of children who live under stress and their influence can spread to others, especially as they reach adulthood.

A report like this can look like just another white paper with statistics on it. However, it is one of the more serious situations and portends for trouble for the next generation if we don’t do something about this now.

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“About 12 percent of children in the U.S. lived with at least one parent who was dependent on or abused alcohol or an illicit drug last year, according to a new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Researchers found that approximately 7.3 million children lived with a parent who was dependent on or abused alcohol, and 2.1 million children lived with a parent who was dependent on or abused illicit drugs.
The report, Findings for Children Living with Substance-Dependent or Substance-Abusing Parents: 2002-2007, looked at children between the ages of 12 and 18 and covered the period 2002 to 2007.
"The research increasingly shows that children growing up in homes with alcohol- and drug-abusing parents suffer -- often greatly," said SAMHSA acting administrator Eric Broderick. "The chronic emotional stress in such an environment can damage their social and emotional development and permanently impede healthy brain development, often resulting in mental and physical health problems across the lifespan. This underlines the importance of preventive interventions at the earliest possible age."

http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2009/many-us-kids-have-addicted.html

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Man’s Oldest Drug

MAN’S OLDEST DRUG

Through the ages, alcohol has been one of the pleasures of life. Since the Stone Ages, alcohol has played a role in human culture and has been used for medicinal, religious and social purposes.

The Greeks promoted moderation in drinking and temperance was praised by Plato. As the Roman Empire started to decay the abuse of alcohol became more rampant. Throughout much of history the use or misuse of alcohol is a reflection of the society.

And so it goes – Social pressures and society disorder find us in a world that promotes drinking. The number of alcohol abusers of all ages is increasing.

Young people raid their parents liquor cabinets, Workers meet at the bar after high pressure jobs and older people seek alcohol as a relief for loneliness.

No matter the age or social condition overdrinking contributes to cirrhosis, pancreatitis, brain damage and destruction of the nervous system. In the present time, the majority of traffic deaths are caused by driving under the influence.

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Alcohol is the most commonly used and widely abused psychoactive drug in the country. Its abuse contributes to thousands of deaths and ruined lives.

CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL ABUSE

Ø Loss of self control

Ø Depression of the central nervous system and lowers your inhibitions.

Ø Loss of coordination

Ø Poor judgment

Ø Slowed reflexes

Ø Double vision

Ø Loss of memory

Ø Possible blackouts.

SHORT TERM EFFECTS

Ø Hangover and vomiting.

Ø Alcohol poisoning, which can lead to coma or even death.

LONG TERM EFFECTS

Ø Tolerance to alcohol

Ø Cancer

Ø Gastrointestinal problems

Ø Diarrhea and ulcers

Ø High blood pressure

Ø Malnutrition

Ø Sexual dysfunctions

Ø Lowered resistance to disease.

WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS

Withdrawal symptoms can be severe require hospitalization. Many symptoms also describe DTs (delirium tremens) which are caused by the abrupt cessation of alcohol.

Ø Hallucinations

Ø Seizures

Ø Rapid pulse rate

Ø Elevated blood pressure

Ø Nausea

Ø Sweating

Ø Shakiness

Ø Temperature elevation.

Other Alcohol Facts

Alcohol is the most commonly abused substance in the U.S. According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health 119 million Americans (20.1% of the population) use alcohol.

Every 30 minutes someone is killed in an alcohol related traffic accident in the U.S.

Drunk driving is proving to be even deadlier than what we previously knew. The latest death statistics released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), using a new method of calculation show that 17,488 people were killed in alcohol related traffic accidents last year. This means that nearly 800 more people were killed by alcohol abuse than the previous year.

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the result of chronic alcohol use during pregnancy. It is a serious health problem that tragically affects its victims and their families. Babies born with FAS weigh less and are shorter than normal. They tend to have smaller heads, deformed facial features, abnormal joints and limbs, poor coordination, learning problems, and short memories.

Fact: 750 infants are born with a severe pattern of physical, developmental and functional problems due to FAS each year in the U.S. Another 40,000 children are born with fetal alcohol effects (FAE) in the U.S

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Every year it seems that there are more and more studies or articles on the hazards of alcohol abuse. The point has been made, with the real question remaining, “What can we do about the situation?”

For the society, the answer lies in drug and alcohol education at school and more controls over alcohol advertising at sports events.

For the individuals who have a loved one addicted to alcohol, the answer is Narconon New Life Program. There is no better answer.

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Drugs Exposed to Teenagers

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When people wonder which illegal drug their teen may be exposed to the most, many think of cocaine or hallucinogens.

However, a study shows that 56% of youths who first started using drugs in the past year began with marijuana.

"Marijuana has the reputation of being non-toxic and 'safe' to use," comments Mary Rieser, Executive Director of Narconon Drug Rehab Georgia. "Despite the facts that students are given education on the dangers of tobacco smoking, marijuana apparently doesn't come under the same scrutiny, and when teens use an illegal drug for the first time, it will start with marijuana. This often leads to ther drugs; those who start using marijuana are 9 times more likely to use cocaine than those who don't. Marijuana often leads to drug addiction."

An estimated 1.5 million youths ages 12 to 17—an average of more than 4,000 per day—used a drug other than alcohol for the first time in the past year, according to data from the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

The majority of youths reported that marijuana was the first drug they tried (56%), followed by prescription-type drugs used nonmedically (24%), and inhalants (17%).

Very few youths reported that their first use of drugs involved hallucinogens or cocaine (see figure below). The relative distribution of first-drug used has remained consistent over the past five years.

"Prescription-type drugs includes stimulants, sedatives, tranquilizers, and pain relievers," comments Ms. Rieser. "Non-medical use is defined as use without a prescription belonging to the respondent or use that occurred simply for the experience or feeling the drug caused."

Source: CESARFAX, University of Maryland, CollegePark

Narconon Drug Rehab of Georgia is a non-traditional drug abuse treatment program. Narconon was founded in 1967, and boasts a 76% success rate (based on a two year follow-up) through a non-12 step drug treatment program.  The Narconon program provides body detoxification through a sauna and exercise program that helps eliminate or reduce cravings. After the sauna program, the client learns those life skills essential to success in life and the ability to stay clean.  They graduate from Narconon with a life plan and continued support to make sure they make it in life.

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Magic Pills

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MAGIC PILLS

Mary Rieser CCDC

How are you feeling today? Not so well? Just plop down in front of the television tonight and you’ll soon be given the opportunity to diagnose yourself. Double check with your doctor if you want to make sure you’re right. Chances are your doctor is also familiar with the pharmaceutical commercials.

Do restless legs keep you awake? This can be fixed with a pill. If the side effects of the pill cause you to gamble away all your money, you don’t need to feel depressed for long. There are pills to fix this too, and a big bus will deliver them for next to nothing.

Before you go to bed decide if you want to sleep or have sex. There is a different pill for each. (The commercials don’t tell us what happens if you take both at once.) If you opt for the sex pill and notice at 2 am difficulty with your anatomy (if it lasts for more than four hours) the ad says to call your doctor. You might have to wait for a more convenient time for him to meet you at the office to fix the problem.

Too fat? Eyes watering or are they too dry? Are you afraid you might wet your pants or worse, do you have to wear long sleeves in summer? Don’t fret. It can all be fixed. Take a pill and enjoy life in living color.

As our population is lulled into the safety and normalcy of fixing everything with medication is it any wonder that prescription drug abuse and subsequent addiction are on the rise at an alarming rate?

Young people are more addicted now to what they find in the medicine cabinet, than what they find on the street, and for the first time, in some parts of the country, more people are dying from overdoses of pharmaceuticals than street drugs. Prescription drug abuse is the second most commonly abused substance now (excepting alcohol). This didn’t use to be the case.

People are getting addicted and we are told that some brains are more apt to have a drug problem than others. These brains apparently short wire and make the person crave drugs. How did these “brains” even learn about drugs- whether it be street or pharmaceutical? Should we be educating our kids about drugs on TV?

When I was a child, all my friends had Barbie dolls. We saw her on TV and had to have one – some girls had a dozen. We were obsessed. Fortunately, most of us outgrew our “Barbie brain” and didn’t need rehab. No one had to come up with a vaccine to make us not want Barbie. Barbie apparently is non-addictive long term. But today, in contrast, television ads are leading children to major drug addiction, not Barbie dolls.

Most people understand that there are times when the proper medication is life saving and necessary. Some ailments such as diabetes require long-term maintenance, but not everything can be treated with a pill.

Let’s get wise. There is no pill to bring the dead back to life or to cure young people who have become addicted.

Mary Rieser CCDC

Executive Director Narconon

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Drug Seekers

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WARNING

BEWARE OF DRUG SEEKERS

From the Executive Director of Narconon of Georgia

You may know a prescription “seeker”. These are individuals who try to get prescription medication that is either not medically indicated or prescribed for them. In other words, they want to abuse it.

If you are a dentist, you probably get calls from time to time from the seekers. These are the individuals who are not your patients, but hope that you don’t realize it. They are likely to call on holiday weekends because they know that during the holidays, dentists, like everyone else, are preoccupied and might be covering for someone else. The holiday weekends are longer, requiring a larger prescription.

A typical conversation from a prescription seeker might go like this: “I was in your office a couple of weeks ago and I was supposed to have that tooth taken out.” Acting as though you are sure to remember who they are, the seeker will try to steer you towards writing the pain prescription.

If you have not recognized them as a seeker by this time, other indicators in the conversation might be statements to the effect that they have tried Motrin in the past and it didn’t work or that they are allergic to pain medication of lower potency. The prescription seeker only wants “enough to get through the weekend” promising that they will make an appointment with you the following week to get the dental problem addressed.

Chances are that if you have a big practice, you won’t remember the names of all your patients. Here are some tips to avoid inadvertently writing pain prescriptions to persons seeking to get high:

• If you can’t remember having ever seen the patient, then ask them what you look like, or what the office looks like if they say they have seen your associate. Wrong answers to these simple questions are sure tips that something is amiss.

• Arrange to have access to your office computer from wherever you are so you can log in to your patient database to see if a caller really is a patient.

• If someone comes to your office that you think might be abusing pain medications, learn the signs as listed below.

A seeker may also be someone living in your household. You can recognize them as the family member who needs to take some of your prescription medication because they are in pain. They may go to the doctor frequently, or from emergency room to emergency room describing fabricated up symptoms that require medication. You might recognize a seeker in your household by the fact that some of your prescription medication has come up missing.

Be compassionate. If you see someone trying to get pain medication inappropriately, chances are they are addicted. Recommend rehab to them and give them our phone number: 1-877-413-3073. WE ARE THE NEW LIFE PROGRAM!

Signs of Opiate Abuse

A person on an opiate such as heroin, morphine and prescription drugs will have constricted pupils that will look like pinpoints or small dots.

Someone on opiates usually itches and you can see the person lightly and frequently scratching himself.

If the method of ingestion is sniffing, his nostrils may appear raw and red.

If the method of ingestion is by injection there will be needle marks in arms, behind the knees or ankles.

Heroin users have been known to inject themselves under the tongue, or directly into open sores. These locations are not as easy to detect.

They may get very pale and sweaty or extremely thirsty.

Opiates affect people in different ways: some may get very "hyper" (active or frantic) and run around working or looking busy while others get very lethargic (nodding or doping off). The person may go around asking others for money. This will not be small change for cigarettes, but more like $20 or $40 here or there.

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Call our 24 hour hotline 877-413-3073.

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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”