INHALANTS AND LSD

An increasing number of students in our country are getting the wrong idea about the dangers of LSD and inhalants.  In other words, they don’t think they are so bad.

This and other information was included on a survey released by The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which monitors the use of drug education programs in school across the country.

“The 2008 survey results reinforce the fact that we cannot become complacent in our efforts to persuade teens not to smoke, drink or abuse illicit substances,” said Mike Leavitt Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Overall, 46,348 students from 386 public and private schools in the eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades participated in the survey.

The study underlined the fact that while some areas of abuse are declining, such as alcohol, other types of drug use are either stalling or increasing.  LSD and inhalants are examples.

Any child who thinks that inhalants are OK needs to change their mind quick. Amongst children, inhalant use is quite disturbing. Inhalants can cause sudden death and brain damage.  They are easy to find as they are in the form of air fresheners, gasoline, and even whipped cream.

The need for the truth about LSD needs no explanation for anyone who grew up in the 60s or 70s and saw people lost permanently to a bad trip.

Kids won’t know the truth unless someone tells them – they are obviously getting the wrong story now.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIDA supports most of the world’s research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. The Institute carries out a large variety of programs to inform policy and improve practice.

Narconon of Georgia provides drug treatment and education for the entire southeast region.

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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Marijuana’s Lure- Marijuana Dangers

Research clearly demonstrates that marijuana has the potential to cause problems in daily life or make a person’s existing problems worse.

However, marijuana presents a unique challenge to parents and educators, because of the recent rise of medical marijuana, decriminalization efforts and mixed messages as to its harmful effects.

Marijuana, once demonized as the source of all society’s ills through propaganda movies, is now promoted by some politicians. The message can be confusing and parents need to know the truth. Marijuana abuse can lead to marijuana addiction.

Studies show that kids listen to their parents when it comes to marijuana and are less likely to use it, if they think their parents will disapprove.

For more information, read this article: Marijuana Drug Abuse Still High

Narconon Drug Addict Realization

Here is a realization written by someone in drug treatment who was hopelessly addicted to drugs.

“This is an exciting adventure.  Change is a freeing concept.  Change in its own right is difficult, whether good or bad.  But what I have learned is that change is essential to my sobriety and I embrace it.  I welcome change.

The communication course has helped me in dealing with change.  Beingness enables me to think more clearly and accept ME in the present.

These exercises will aid dramatically in dealing with the Ups and Downs of life.

What a gift!”

Narconon New Life Program offers these wins for anyone who has abused cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, pot, alcohol or any drug of abuse.  There is hope.

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The Fact Is That Marijuana Is A Drug

High school seniors are not often known for practicing good judgment, but in the case of marijuana abuse when they are presented with the facts that marijuana is harmful, they decide not to use the drug.

A university of Michigan study shows that when high school seniors are presented with the facts and perceive a risk, they use marijuana less.
The amount of drug education the students receive about the harmful nature of marijuana abuse is the determining factor in whether they perceive marijuana as harmful.

WHAT A WONDURFUL AND BEAUTIFUL GIFT

NARCONON REFLECTION

Here is a daily reflection from a Narconon drug treatment student.  This student was once hopelessly addicted and by learning about herself, step by step she has come to gain power over her addiction.

“This is my win.  I see the difference between darkness and enlightenment.

I am so in the moment and in touch with time and space.  I recognize all the things in the room.   As I was getting to this point I realized how drugs and the bottle took away all my creativity and I was dark and negative.  I was not responsive, out of control and negative and miserable.

Today the room got brighter and lighter (which means knowledge to me).  This is like “knowledge is power!”

I have creativity, dreams, goals and aspiration.  I live in present time.  I move in present time from goal to goal.  The beauty is that I don’t walk alone.  I am not alone.

What a wonderful, beautiful gift and treasure chest of knowledge.”

Whether a person has abused cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, pot or any drug of abuse, the Narconon program can work for them.

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I AM A STRONGER INDIVIDUAL TODAY

NARCONON REFLECTION

Here is a Narconon reflection – written by someone who was abusing alcohol – but written for anyone who is abusing any drug.  Whether it is oycontin, adderall, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine or any drug of abuse, the Narconon program is here to help you.

“Today in class I learned that pinpointing my problem and releasing my energy on it – I can let the thought pass.  I think a problem is a kind of blemish to my well being and healthy life style – a blemish that can vanish with the right medicine.  The medicine is how I handle situations – and I can handle them the right way from now on, from what I have learned.

The medicine is also in my action and thoughts.  I will use my mind and strength to touch and get what I want.  It is my choice, now that I know right from wrong.

I am a stronger individual today.

This can also apply to unhealthy relationships, friendships and disagreements.

I believe that sometimes it is just better to let things go and avoid trouble in my life.”

Simple realizations like this can take the course of someone’s life and move it in a different direction.

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THE FACTS ARE THE FACTS

There is a movement to legalize marijuana and the debate is underway.

Supporters of legalization efforts liken marijuana laws to prohibition of alcohol, citing the advance of criminal distribution networks across the country.

There is also the belief that for years, marijuana has been demonized and made out to be the root cause of all addiction while it has no detrimental effects.

This last belief could not be further from the truth for many who have worked in the field of drug treatment, most of who have treated persons for marijuana abuse.  The argument is that legalization will do nothing for those who are already addicted.

Whether marijuana is legalized or not, it is important to remember that it is first and foremost a drug with psychoactive chemicals.  While there may be some arguments for legalization in order to focus on more harmful drugs, pretending that marijuana has no ill effects is not the answer.

No matter the legal status, anyone who is abusing marijuana recreationally is at risk.  Effective drug treatment for those already using it is the answer.

For those who aren’t effective drug education will help them say NO, no matter who the vendor.

Narconon of Georgia is a non-traditional drug abuse treatment program which was founded in 1967 whose mission also includes drug education and working with children.  The Narconon program provides body detoxification through a sauna and exercise program that helps eliminate or reduce cravings.  Then the client learns those life skills essential to success in life and the ability to stay clean.

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THE DARK AGES

Intense marketing and a resultant 150% rise in the numbers of prescriptions written has resulted in a growing number of people addicted to prescription drugs.

In a recent press conference Joseph A. Califano Jr., the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University’s director and president said:

“Aggressive marketing of controlled drugs to physicians . . . is designed to increase profits with little regard for abuse potential, Our nation is in the throes of an epidemic of controlled prescription drug abuse and addiction.”

The ease by which many Americans can get a prescription for powerful pain medications and psychiatric drugs is alarming.

Drug seekers are people that are trying to get high. They will say or do almost anything to get what they want.  Health care professionals who are just trying to help are unfortunately easy prey for these individuals.

Very few physicians receive any training in spotting drug seeking behavior. Pharmacists report more training but it is not they that actually write the prescriptions.

More than 15 million Americans abuse controlled substances—double the amount from a decade ago, according to a report issued by CASA.  This represents a clear problem for America because there is virtually no increase in drug treatment available.

Califano said, “I am disturbed that more than 28 percent of pharmacists say they fail to regularly validate the prescribing physician’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration number when dispensing controlled substances. Today more people are abusing controlled-prescription drugs than the combined number who abuse cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, and heroin.”

Without educating pharmacists and physicians who prescribe these drugs on the signs for potential abuse, drug companies are guilty of criminal negligence.

Unless there is a dramatic increase in the availability of drug treatment for those already addicted, the epidemic will only increase.

History will view this era as a dark age – if civilization exists long enough to move into a more enlightened age.

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ONE OF MINNESSOTA’S BEST

Who would have known that a fifteen year old prankster, whose antics cost him thirty years in the St. Cloud Reformatory in Minneapolis, would later get a role in a major motion picture and eventually become a spokesperson for an international drug treatment program?

That is exactly what happened to Minnesota born and raised Gordon Weinand, who still describes himself in earlier days as “a full fledged rebel on the loose.”

Born in 1939 to a working class family, Gordy’s hopes of becoming a major league baseball player were cut short when he was sentenced as a juvenile to 30 years on a number of charges.

After seven years at the St. Cloud Reformatory, he was transferred to the Stillwater State prison for two more years.  In prison Gordy was reformed from teenage prankster into an adult drug abuser with distaste for the law.  He learned to abuse and sell drugs in the prison.

In 1966, Gordy moved to Arizona to start a new life, but old habits are hard to break and his “new life” became more of the same – dealing and using drugs.

He soon was on the wrong side of bars again when a “friend” dropped some things over to Gordy’s apartment for safekeeping.  These items turned out to have been stolen and the next morning Gordy was arrested for third degree burglary and sentenced to the Arizona State Prison.  Gordy remarks about this arrest, “Believe it or not, this is when my life started changing for the better.”

One day, working on his assigned duties in the prison cannery, Gordy met an individual named Willie Benitez and his life changed forever.  Willie had been in and out of prison himself a few times for heroin possession – he had been a heroin addict for eighteen years.  This go around, Willie decided that he was going to overcome his addiction by concentrating on his abilities.  He helped others to do the same by starting a program in the prison.  That day he invited Gordy to a Narconon meeting.

Gordy went to his first Narconon meeting really to get out of his cell one night a week. By the third meeting he began to notice that he was feeling better about himself and shedding himself of old attitudes.  The communication training and lectures helped him to realize that he was NOT powerless and was more than a stupid juvenile as he had been told.  Gordy describes this as the time in his life when he took control and began to create a new life for himself.

After Gordy was in prison for six months, Paramount Studios came to film the movie Riot, right in the Arizona State Prison.  Gordy got a part in the film and was paid $4000.00, which he was able to take with him when he left prison.

After prison, Willie and Gordy worked together to expand Narconon, funding their endeavor by installing carpets.  Within a few years, Narconon expanded into many cities and countries. (It is in 44 countries today). Willie became the international spokesperson for Narconon.  When he died in 1999, the torch was passed to Gordy and he continues to this day to spread a drug free message.

His 40 years clean time, his long marriage and 3 beautiful daughters are testament to the fact that no matter the circumstances, anyone’s life can change for the better.

Gordy now works full time as a full time Narconon staff member in Georgia and still invites drug addicts and their families to call him personally with their difficulties.

When asked to sum up his story, it is simply put, “I have been drug-free for 40 years.  I am devoted to helping to others have the success I have had.”

Anyone can email Gordon personally at gordonweinand@yahoo.com or see his video on drugsno.com.  Whether you are abusing cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine or pot – Gordy will talk to them.

KIDS AND GLUE

Narconon staff finally made it safely to the Honduras orphanage, despite having to circumvent a bridge taken by opposition forces, during the recent coup. They had arrived to address a more critical problem. – the fate of the future of Honduras- the children.  While demonstrators marched outside on the streets, Narconon staff worked inside the orphanage with young people who earlier had been living on the streets, addicted to glue.

There are a large number of orphaned street children in the country.  Some are orphaned through the death of their parents, while others have simply been put on the street by parents unable to care for them.  Unloved and hungry, children often turn to violence and drugs to survive.  If they can’t steal food, sniffing glue or “flying” will ease the pangs of hunger.

The addiction to glue has been so great, that in some cases the young addicts have given up the safety and support of the orphanage, scaled a barb wire fence and walked two miles to town to get their glue.  This was the situation that Narconon of Georgia staff came to help with – how to address the cravings for glue, so the children would stay in the orphanage and get the education that would give them a future.

The orphanage, with the help of missionaries and churches from around the world, has been providing food, shelter, love and an education for a number of these orphans for the last eight years.

With the help of a doctor from Honduras, Narconon of Georgia staff has provided a sauna exercise program for these children.  The transition from drug addicted to drug free is eased with the help of exercise, nutrients and a sauna.  During the last three years, many children have successfully completed the program and have gone on with their schooling and learned a trade.

According to the director of the orphanage; “The staples of the program continue to be the love, support and structure of the center.”

Don Delgado, a Narconon staff member at Honduras writes, “I will continue to help these children, no matter the political strife in the country.  They are the only real hope that Honduras has for a sane and stable future.”

Since William Benetiz founded Narconon in 1967, it has been a Narconon tradition, not only to care for the individual, but to bring safety and stability to the communities.

Drug addiction is a worldwide problem and Narconon staff members are up to the task.

Anyone who would like to help can call Narconon of Georgia at 877-413-3073