Today there are many realizations pouring out of the Narconon drug rehab. Many of the students like to share them with the hopes that they can be of help to others with addiction problems. The realizations are simple, but powerful.
“Today was a good day in class. I was in great spirits and very attentive.
The work today made me realize that I can keep control of my mind and my urges. It’s my choice to control my actions and to use all the tools I have been taught to overcome urges.
Today I learned to stop, think and relax. I don’t have to keep going a mile a minute. I need to take time for myself and relax. I don’t have to constantly plan every detail of my life.
This was a big gain for me because I always had to go, go, go…”
Narconon drug treatment helps with most drugs of abuse – heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, pot, Xanax and alcohol.
Mexico is experiencing an all out drug war and it is spilling into the US.
The source of the violence is Mexican drug cartels scrambling to fill the demand for drugs in the United States. These same cartels are even recruiting young American teenagers to gain ease of access to American youth. If this situation is not controlled, then predictably the United States may soon see a rise in violence similar to what is happening in Mexico, where troops are being deployed.
This is a well thought out campaign and it is working.
The cartels operate a distribution network which operates from more than 300 cities and more youth are being lured into taking drugs.
Where it was once only the big cities that were distribution areas, small towns are now being used to house and distribute these drugs. Often these are towns with immigrant populations.
One such town is Hendersonville, North Carolina which over the last decade has had a growing immigrant population. The town, once a small retirement community with tourism as its major source of revenue, is now a major distribution hub for the cartels. The distribution network is hidden in the many rural areas which once housed seasonal migrant workers for Hendersonville’s many apple groves. Most of the citizens are unsuspecting, but the evidence is the increase in methamphetamine abusein the area.
Before the Mexican cartels came here, drug use was not a major problem. Now the court system is clogged with hundreds of drug cases, and violence is on the rise.
This is the where the battle has moved and this is where an effective defense of drug education and drug rehab must begin. No more lives need be lost.
Narconon of Georgia services the Southeastern United states. Narconon utilizes a sauna detoxification and life skills training for a 76% success rate for those who have abused heroin, marijuana, pot, methamphetamine and other drugs of abuse.
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 came to represent love and peace in the 60s and has never quite lost that image but this is far from the truth. Anyone who uses marijuana regularly is more likely to engage in aggressive and violent behavior, cause trouble at school and destroy property.
Violence at a global level is connected with marijuana trafficking. Criminal groups operating from Mexico promote their version of love and peace through torture, executions and other acts of violence.
The fact is that marijuana is a drug and is not harmless, contrary to common misconception. The use of marijuana can lead to health, safety, learning and social problems and abuse of other harmful drugs. Scientist’s in Europe have found “convincing evidence” that smoking marijuana may cause genetic damage which may in turn cause the formation of cancer cells. This data comes in light of the known dangers of cigarette smoking and scientists have long worried that marijuana may in fact have a similar effect.
Another common misconception is that marijuana is not addictive. Regular users behave like any other drug dependent persons. They will use it compulsively even if it is creating problems with family, work, health or their social life.
Marijuana users are likely to be low academic performers. Marijuana can cause problems with concentration and thinking. One study found that college students who used marijuana regularly had impaired attention and memory skills 24 hours after using the drug. Their poor academic performance and later frequent absenteeism from work, puts users low on the list of those “most likely to succeed”.
There is no doubt that marijuana can be hazardous to your health and many who abuse it need effective drug treatment.
Narconon of Georgia has great success with Marijuana users through a sauna detoxification procedure that helps restore clear thinking and motivation, which are lost through regular marijuana use. Many of our clients have returned to school and finished their degrees, while others have progressed professionally.
There is no reason that marijuana should ruin anyone’s life.
Here is yet another alarming report about our soldiers. Reports of drinking and heavy prescription drug abuse amongst soldiers are now flanked with this report from Join Together about soldier heroin abuse.
The problem is evident and the warning is clear. What we choose to do about it depends on our compassion and concern for those who have chosen to represent American abroad.
The only real solution for those addicted is effective drug treatment.
According to this article we also need to destroy the opium crops. Perhaps that is true, but how about we train our soldiers to walk past these crops as the ultimate in demand reduction? Certainly this could be part of their training.
“Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who served as U.S. drug czar under President Bill Clinton, says more U.S. soldiers will abuse heroin and terrorists will remain in Afghanistan if opium crops in the region are not destroyed, the Palm Beach Post reported May 20.
McCaffrey, who spoke at a National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers conference last week, said that illicit drug abuse among soldiers has doubled over the last four years and predicted that heroin abuse will increase as the U.S. focuses on Afghanistan.
“I know there are 9,000 metric tons of opium raised every year in Afghanistan, and I’d be astonished if we don’t see soldiers who find 10 kilograms of heroin and pack it up in a birthday cake and send it home to their mother with a note that says, ‘Don’t open this package until I’m home,’” McCaffrey said. “That’s one thing that’s going to happen.”
McCaffrey said heroin trafficking is directly linked to the Taliban. “If you don’t separate opium production money from the terrorism problem, the warlords, the criminals, you can’t build a nation-state in Afghanistan, period,” he said.
McCaffrey also described drug treatment as a necessary part of national healthcare reform, and cited the need for rehabilitation programs for drug users in prison.”
This story concerning South Africans getting high on a drug intended to treat HIV and AIDS is frightening, especially regarding the report that memories can be wiped out by it.
This was obviously not the intention of the American government, who distributes ARV cheaply to the 100s of thousands of those whose lives depend on getting the drug.
The solution to HIV and AIDS is becoming a big problem itself. In fact, the ARV abuse is being described in this article as a health crisis and there are no solutions proposed, as of yet.
This town needs some help in developing effective drug treatment for ARV. While most drug rehabs are adept at treating abusers of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, pot and other drugs – this one is a class of its own and will need its own study.
Additionally, everything must be done to prevent the spread of this particular kind of drug abuse into other parts of the world.
We have created enough zombies as it is.
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“A drug intended to treat HIV and AIDS is sweeping the townships of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is cheap and powerfully addictive.
“Nightline” witnessed the drug’s effects upclose on a 17-year-old addict we’re calling Joshua to protect his identity. A high school junior from a middle-class neighborhood in Durban, he said his parents would kick him out of the house if they knew. And yet he smokes the drug every day before and after class, despite his dreams of becoming a doctor.
“Once you’ve first started there’s no turning back,” he said, adding that he wants to stop using but can’t.
When he uses, “it feels like you got no problem at all. Like yesterday if you killed a person and you smoked this thing you wouldn’t remember that you killed a person yesterday”
This article is right on – summer is a time when teens are likely to get caught up in drugs and they need our help. With nothing but time on their hands and temptation abounding, we need to make sure that they make it through the summer alive.
Most of the teens using drugs have been introduced to it in their school – Xanax, Adderall, Ritalin, Vicodin and other Prescription Medications have made their way into locker room talk.
Now that they are away from some of the purveyors, teens might be more willing to listen to their parents, especially if there is an extra fun family vacation and everyone can get reacquainted.
Some parents are going to find out that their teen has become addicted through the year and will need drug treatment.
Others hopefully will demand that drug education be put back in the curriculums in the upcoming school year.
Let’s make it a good summer.
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“Summertime is a wonderful time for teenagers to enjoy their freedom. Unfortunately, it is often at this time, however, that teens try drugs or alcohol for the first time. Parental supervision tends to be more lax, and teens have nothing but time on their hands. Now is the time to get involved to ensure that your teenager does not get caught up in drug or alcohol addiction.
Drug and alcohol abuse
Drug and alcohol use is consistent among teenagers around the world, and Miami, Florida is no exception. Because Miami is right on the coast, there is easy access to drugs coming in from smugglers through Miami ports. Teenagers are at an age when peer pressure is increasingly hard to ignore, and parental supervision often lags. Parents might feel that their job is over, or that they can at least let up. However, this is most often not the case.”
Western North Carolina has been hit hard with the recent increase in deaths due to prescription drug abuse. The overwhelming majority of deaths are attributed to illegally diverted drugs – drugs taken by people to whom they were never prescribed.
In Asheville, Dr. John Clark McIntosh had his medical license suspended indefinitely after admitting to allegations of prescribing narcotics to drug seekers and practicing chronic pain management without formal training.
This is a common recipe for prescription drug abuse- a drug seeker and a doctor, like McIntosh, who, for whatever reason, is willing to prescribe narcotics to them.
In Wilkes County, Project Lazarus is attempting a quick fix for this common situation by providing nasal inhalers with the antidote Naloxone for would be over-dosers.
The project, supported by the North Carolina Medical Association, does not account for those who might never get inhalers or who might leave them at home. These people are still at risk of death because their doctor was never properly educated or drug treatment was not available. Inhalers don’t take the place of responsibility and common sense.
North Carolina will have to look to seasoned drug rehab and education programs to get relief from these real problems that effect real lives.
Narconon of Georgia provides effective drug treatment to the Southeastern United States with a 76% success rate resulting from Sauna detoxification, followed by life skills training. 877-413-3073
This article underscores the fact that addiction can happen to anyone, no matter the rank or intellect. Addicts start out at different places in life, but they pretty much all wind up in the same one – the gutter.
Gordon Campbell climbed out of that gutter through participating in effective drug rehab and is continuing to help by communicating his story. It gives hope.
When there is the possibility of returning one of our bright spirits back to society as productive and contributing citizens through offering effective drug treatment, it makes no sense to do otherwise.
Whether it has been through abuse of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine or other drugs, society has lost too many of its future leaders through addiction.
We can prevent it for some through effective drug education. For the others, already addicted, society can provide effective drug treatment.
“He was one of the legislature’s brightest young political staffers during Premier Gordon Campbell’s first term in office: Smart, popular, good-looking, a sharp dresser and a sharper talker, Marshall Smith seemed to have it all.
Cruising the corridors of power with an easy confidence that belied his 28 years, he’d whisper advice to cabinet ministers one minute, spin a scrum of reporters the next, then crack up his fellow Liberal insiders with an always-ready joke.
“The minister of social planning,” they nicknamed him, because Smith was the guy who organized all the after-work parties. In any number of bars near Government Street in Victoria, you’d find the ministerial aide whooping it up long after the legislature had shut for the night.
“I was on top of the world and having a blast,” he recalls now, even travelling to Prague with Campbell for the announcement of Vancouver’s winning Olympic bid. He was introduced to Henry Kissinger and hobnobbed with Olympic glitterati.
Then it all came crashing down, starting one fateful night in 2004.
“I was in a bar and someone offered me a line of cocaine,” said Smith, now 36. “I did it, I liked it and I wanted more. But it was the beginning of the end.”…….
Charlotte is the largest city in North Carolina. Nicknamed the Queen City, it lives up to its name with a thriving downtown and numerous suburbs. The city also boasts many colleges and universities, attracting young people from all over the country.
As is the case in many college areas, where there are young people there is drug abuse and the “Queen City” is no different in this regard.
Two areas of drug abuse causing concern are black tar heroin, provided by Mexican gangs, and prescription drug abuse (legal and illegal).
While the availability of drugs has increased, the availability of drug treatment has not, increasing the number of drug addicts needing, but not receiving effective treatment
The numbers of drug users serving time in the state prison system has risen, while the arrests made against the actual suppliers has not risen significantly. Without demand reduction, provided by effective drug treatment, drug trafficking and the attendant violence are likely to increase.
Officials are already worried that the violence associated with drug trafficking may increase in the Charlotte area.
It is time to do something different than simply continuing to fund more law enforcement activities to stem the flow of drugs entering the area.
Narconon of Georgia, servicing the eastern United States, offers an effective drug rehab program for citizens of Charlotte and all of North Carolina. The Narconon program has a 76% success rate which is significantly greater than current treatment solutions offered in North Carolina.
Narconon of Georgia Drug Rehabilitation, founded in 2001 is a non-traditional drug treatment program. The program offers a non 12 step long term drug treatment for alcoholism, drug addiction, substance abuse and chemical dependency for women and men. Narconon addresses cravings through a Sauna and Exercise Detoxification Program. Life Skills Training helps to prevent relapse with resultant 76% success rate. 877-413-3073
Narconon drug prevention and treatment centers will again join in on celebrating the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s International Day AgainstDrug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The theme for this event that is held yearly on June 26this “Do drugs control your life? Your life. Your community. No place for drugs.”
The message of no drugs needs to be spread far and wide in the United States. In a recent study by the nation’s largest drug and alcohol rehabilitation center it was reported that 88% of families recognize drug abuse as a cause for major concern.
Parents and educators should consider the following trends:
Kids are beginning to use drugs at a younger age, increasing their chances of long term addiction.
Abuse of prescriptions drugs is on the rise with high schoolers and a new fad involving over the counter cough medicine is causing waves of visits to local emergency rooms.
Children see their parents taking medication for whatever ails them and think that prescription drugs are OK. Surveys show that kids tend to think that prescription drugs are safer.
Children themselves are being prescribed drugs at an ever increasing rate.
In this pro- prescription-drug-age, kids need a voice of reason and the best voice is from their parents. Studies show that kids are less likely to smoke pot if they know that their parents disagree. Parents need accurate information and that information can be provided by Narconon.
Drug addiction is never easy for families to deal with, but during tough economic times, it can be nearly impossible.
Let’s spread the message far and wide this June 26th YOUR LIFE, YOUR COMMUNITY. NO PLACE FOR DRUGS.
