Drug Education

They got it right! Prevention is certainly the key to drug addiction.  With this money it will help many students get educated on the dangers of drugs and the jails will be less crowded because there will be less drug abuse.  If we must spend our money, let’s educate instead of incarcerate!

The Scottsville/Allen County Faith Coalition received a $125,000 grant to help take the message to middle ad high school students. Leaders say they hope this information will help turn kids away from drug use and abuse, because prevention is key.

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Environment

Studies have shown that the environment that a child grows up in is a direct relation to the drug addiction problem that is plaguing the adults around the world.  Children that grow up in a home where drug use is accepted are more likely to themselves become addicted to drugs.

In families where drug use is acceptable the risk for use to develop into abuse increases, although some people will reject drugs when they witness and experience the negative consequences. When a person is exposed to an environment where drug use is viewed as normal and common, the person will likely begin or increase her drug intake, reports the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. This acceptability and regular use is likely to influence the development of problems with drug abuse.

Maybe suprising to some but not to Drug Addiction Treatment Centers the poverty level also plays a part in drug abuse among children.  As a way to generate income many people who have no other way of income turn to selling drugs and then give them to children so they can become addicted and start paying for their drugs to the drug dealer.  It’s a scary cycle that isn’t easily stopped.

Growing up surrounded by poverty can increase the possibility for drug abuse, notes the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. Neighborhoods that have high rates of poverty tend to also have high rates of drug abuse. Drugs are often sold in these neighborhoods as a way to make quick and significant amounts of money. Drug dealers often push their drugs onto influential teens and children by giving them away for free; this is a way to ensure a continued supply of consumers.

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Parents

This article by Joseph Califano is a “must read” for every parent who is sending kids to school today.  He contends that sending kids into some of our schools today is a form of child abuse and is a direct link to adult drug addiction.

Any child who has to contend with going to school with drugs and gangs is a definitely a victim of neglect at the very least.   Every PTA across the country should discuss this article at the next PTA meeting, before going over band uniform budgets or anything else.

Cheerleading, sports, band and academic performance are not done well by kids on pot, heroin or prescription drugs.

If things don’t better, a wing of every school will need to be devoted to drug treatment.

Parents of tweens and teens: CASA’s 15th Annual Back-to-School Survey indicates that the odds are increasing that the middle or high school your children are going to is drug infected (a place where drugs are used, kept or sold), especially if it is a public school.

Are you going to do something about it or just accept it as an inevitable experience your child has to go through because “that’s just the way things are today”?

If you heard that your child’s classroom and school building were infected with asbestos, wouldn’t you demand that the school authorities certify that the asbestos was cleaned out before you sent you child to school for five or more hours each day?

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Joseph A. Califano Jr.

Chairman, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)

Lindsay Lohan

Once again the judicial system in California has let down yet another celebrity on their quest to become sober from drug and alcohol abuse.  Lindsay Lohan was released early from her drug rehab program where the Dr’s  there decided she didn’t have an addiction and her behaviors were a direct link to prescription medication that she was being prescribed.

Let’s stop and think here, do you really believe that Lindsay only took the prescription drugs as they were prescribed?  Do you believe she did cocaine because of the prescription drugs?  I find that hard to believe and I feel sorry for Lindsay.  It takes much more than a couple of weeks to start working on your drug addiction treatment regiment.  After you detox is when it all begins and she isn’t going to be able to do that.

At best, three weeks of care in a medical facility “detoxed” her, meaning that drugs and alcohol have been successfully cleansed from her system. After detox, that’s when the real work begins and addicts can start to think with a clear mind. But these therapists shortchanged her. Letting her out early allows Lohan to return to her old life, home and friends, which only enabled her destructive behavior in the first place. Ablow says her court sentence should have specified a return to prison if she left rehab prematurely.

Drug Addiction isn’t something that is easy to overcome. It takes months to really be able to say that you are clean and sober and for Lindsay it looks like that may never happen.

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Ben Cousins

While there is an on going investigation against Ben Cousins he readily admits that he used illicit drugs throughout his football career.  He admits drug addiction and his drugs of choice were cocaine and Xanax.  This combination could have killed him at any moment but he continued to take the drugs because he felt he deserved it for all of the hard work he had accomplished on the football field.

The notoriously dedicated trainer and tireless on-field worker said he viewed the use of illicit drugs as an incentive to bust his gut and look forward to using them as a “ultimate reward” for hard work.

Drug Addiction Treatment is here for anyone that has a problem with drugs and/or alcohol, it takes one phone call that could save your life.

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Prescription Drugs

Politicians have one thing in common when it comes to dealing with the drug addiction epidemic in this country.  It can be summed up in one word – ineffectiveness.

A trillion dollar failed investment on the war on drugs and a pharmaceutical industry barreling down tracks that somehow lead to all of our towns, should be proof – This problem is being addressed by the wrong people and in fact, they seem to be making it worse.

Communities, churches, schools and families can and should unite.  If there is any hope of stemming addiction, especially with prescription drugs like Oxycontin and Adderall it is up to the communities and their leaders.

Drug Treatment Center is here to help combat the problem with drug addiction as well, fighting the war on drugs should be everyone’s focus not just a small handful of people.

Resources for drug prevention and addiction treatment can be garnered.  Just because our government can’t solve the issue doesn’t mean that we can’t.

Most of us are not being wooed by lobbyist for pharmaceuticals and still have a conscience and therefore can act.

CAMPTON, Ky. — Spurred by Rand Paul’s suggestion that drug abuse isn’t “a real pressing issue” in the Senate race, Jack Conway spotlighted Kentucky’s “epidemic” of prescription pill abuse that is costing lives and overloading the courts and prisons with addicts who turn to crime to fund their habits.

Conway, a Democrat, visited Kentucky’s mountain region on Monday where he said Paul, his Republican opponent, “just doesn’t get it” concerning painkillers like OxyContin and the impact they have had on Kentucky.

Paul shot back while visiting a faith-based addiction recovery center at Dixon in western Kentucky, accusing Conway of “pandering” for votes by mischaracterizing his concern for the state’s drug woes.

Jack Conway, Democratic candidate for U. S. Senate

It’s been recently insinuated somehow that I don’t care about the drug problem in Kentucky, and that’s absolutely wrong,” Paul told reporters Monday before touring the Wingshadow Lodge of Western Kentucky Teen Challenge, a drug treatment center for men that doesn’t rely on taxpayer money.

Paul, a tea party favorite who advocates a more limited federal government, said he prefers local initiatives over federally based responses to combat drug trafficking and addiction woes afflicting Kentucky.

Meanwhile, Conway took part in a round-table discussion with local prosecutors and

Reflection

Here is another success story from a student on the Objectives portion of the Narconon drug treatment program.  Heroin, methamphetamines, marijuana, prescription medications and other drugs introvert a person.  The purpose of the Objectives course is to extrovert a person, get them in present time and in touch with the world and get control over drug addiction.

“I feel very good!  I am vibrant feeling and extremely happy.  My coordination is very good today.  I am having a great day and want everyone around to smile or laugh.

As I think about positive things, I realize that I am very lucky to have my family and my girlfriend in my life.

I feel great not doing drugs.  Each day I am at Narconon my smile gets bigger and bigger and I am very proud of myself.”

Drug Abuse

This article concerning the obvious failure of the War on Drugs brings up interesting points.  The War on Drugs has failed – we all know that.  However, promoting as an alternative the legalization of drugs, assumes that we are a nation that is bound and determined to get high and no one is going to stop us.  A trillion dollars and millions of law enforcement couldn’t stop us, so they might as well quit trying.  Make the stuff legal.

The problem with this solution is that the leaders of the future will be forced to deal with a population that is overly drugged and therefore less productive.  Jail and drug treatment, which now act as deterrents will be placed to the side and we will have a catastrophe on our hands, well beyond resources to fix it.

The best solution is for families and communities to decide they have had enough.  Enough drug education and discipline with our kids can put control back where it needs to be, taking a stand against drug abuse – those who sincerely do not want a country filled with potheads or addicts.

President Obama’s New Drug War Strategy and the Low-Down on ‘America’s Trillion Dollar Dope Game’

“Three months ago, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a historical new drug war strategy for 2010 to fight drug trafficking, and to increase efforts towards prevention and demand reduction.

Those agreeable with the proposed plan view Obama’s strategy as a step in the right direction.

“For the first time ever, the nation has an administration that views the drug issue first and foremost through the lens of the public health mandate,”  says John Carnervale, an economist and drug policy expert who served under three previous White House administrations and four drug czars.

U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowke concedes the old drug war strategy hasn’t worked. “In the grand scheme, it has not been successful,”  he told the Associated Press in May. “Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems has, if anything, magnified and intensified.”

In announcing the Drug Control Strategy before Congress, President Obama gave the following speech to unveil his new plans for America:

“I am committed to restoring balance in our efforts to combat the drug problems that plague our communities. Drug use endangers the health and safety of every American, depleting financial and human resources, and it deadens the spirit of many of our communities. While I am proud of the new direction described herein, a well-crafted strategy is only as successful as its implementation. To succeed, we will need to rely on the hard work, dedication, and perseverance of every concerned American.”

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AFL

According to news reports some AFL players are involved in drug use.  AFL is found in other countries including Australia where this story originates. Seems that someone spilled the information without thinking and now they are under investigation.

Drug Addiction as you know effects all different types of people.  This proves that no one in the world is really immune to this problem.

Drug Treatment Centers has treated many patients some more famous than others.  Make sure you know the warning signs of drug addiction before it’s too late.

The Age revealed today that the sacked Bulldog publicly linked three AFL players with illegal drug use while speaking at a function at a Mildura winery earlier this month.

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Prescription Drugs

Many recent reports are reporting that more and more individuals are showing up in our ER’s with overdoses on prescription drugs.  Many Dr’s are over prescribing the very drugs that are being abused the most.  Dr’s need to start realizing that they are the direct link to drug abuse in this country and if they are not going to be responsible for their actions then they need to be stripped of their license.

Many people report that they legitimately got hooked on the prescription drugs because they were prescribed them for real pain but then found themselves addicted and could not stop taking them.  Young adults are reporting their first time taking a prescription drug was from their own home medicine cabinet which was followed by drug addiction to it.

Painkillers and anti-anxiety medications are propelling the growth of prescription drug abuse, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Emergency room visits involving the abuse of painkillers — oxycodone, hydrocodone and methadone increased 111 percent from 2004 to 2008. Visits tied to the abuse of anti-anxiety medicines — Valium, Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin, rose 89 percent in the same period. The abuse is not limited to specific age groups.

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