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Who would have thought the day would come when parents would feel the need to hire police dogs to see if their kids have drugs? It seems far-fetched, but it is happening and the reasons are easily understood, especially as the world watches the memorial of Michael Jackson. We have already lost too many.

Narconon of Georgia warns parents that drug tests can be easily fooled. A parent may be content in thinking that their teen is not taking drugs, when the actual fact is that the teen is faking the test results. There was a recent local report of an overdose when a family thought their son had stopped using opiates because he had a clean drug test. The truth was that he was cheating the tests and overdosed and died. He had been using drugs in their presence, but they were looking at the tests, not him.

Dogs can be persuasive, but the best long term solution is for parents to learn the signs of abuse of the major drugs – methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, and opiates. They all have their own signs and one can tell by observing if they are in the presence of a drug abuser.

Whatever the method, parents need to know if their child is on drugs. Failing to find out can be fatal.

Narconon will provide free brochures to families who want to know the signs of drug abuse. We also provide effective drug treatment – 76% success rate.

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NARCONON REFLECTION

Here is another Narconon reflection, written by someone who formally was a hopeless drug addict, using cocaine and heroin. He wishes to communicate to others that there is hope through drug treatment.

“I have found a new side to myself. There has always been this kind of tough guy I always thought I was, beating people up, tattoos, jail and prison – that kind of guy.

The thing is that this is not at all who I am. Really I am just an individual who loves everybody and wants nothing but the best for everyone. With that being said I have a whole lot of work to do. I don’t want my son to grow up like I did with the mentality that the tough guy person is the way to be.

True happiness is more than appearance. Well I guess what I am trying to say is that I am going to break the cycle. I have some things to work on and these are things that I didn’t ever question before. I can’t change over night, but in due time if I hold still the thought that I am going make a change and put it into action, I will have nothing more to regret and everyone close to me can lead a prosperous life.”

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Florida leads the nation in sales of Oxycodone, a powerful pain killer that has been linked to thousands of deaths across the country.

"It's worse than crack cocaine and heroin have ever been," said Special Agent Mike Driscoll, who heads the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's West Palm Beach office. "It's an extremely serious problem, and it needs the attention of numerous agencies."

Once being known as one of the biggest orange producers in the country, Florida has now become one of the largest sources of black market prescription medication. In one county along, nearly 100 storefront pain clinics feed a black market in pain pills stretching through Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia and Massachusetts.

The pain clinics have largely avoided careful oversight due to a loophole in Florida law which allows the distribution of these drugs to go without monitoring if the clinics do not accept insurance.

''It's unacceptable to open up a practice and call yourself a pain management physician and start writing prescriptions,'' said Dr. Laura Brown, a physician on the board of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. ``That's not pain management.''

In Kentucky the majority of illegal prescription drugs can be traced back to these pain clinics. Last year alone, at least 485 people died in that state from prescription drug overdoses, according to the state's Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

Kentucky officials are calling this an epidemic. The victims come from all walks of life. They are the sons and daughters of prominent businessmen and politicians. They are poor and wealthy. They are all the victims of a system which allows suffering and does not provide drug treatment.

Unlike the deadly plagues of the middle ages, there is a known cure for this one – except not enough people are talking about it.

Narconon of Georgia provides drug treatment for all areas. Narconon Drug Rehab of Georgia is a non-traditional drug abuse treatment program with a 76% success rate. We utilize a sauna and exercise program to reduce cravings, followed by life skills to KEEP a person off drugs.

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History will view this time as a dark age – an age where an entire generation suffered from drug addiction and were thrown into prison to recover, much like Bedlam

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 21.1 % of Americans ages eighteen to twenty five years old have alcohol or other drug problems serious enough to require drug addiction treatment.

Recent studies also show that the number of drug addicts needing but not receiving drug treatment is skyrocketing. Some estimates put the figure at 91%.

The same study found that 93 percent of young adults classified as needing addiction treatment didn't receive it, and that 96 percent of this population did not perceived any need for assistance.

Without receiving treatment, many of these individuals wind up in jail or prison. This has escalated to the point where the United States leads the world in the percentage of citizens that are incarcerated.

How history is written from here depends on the choices that society makes concerning this epidemic. There are plenty of studies to show which path will lead us into a more enlightened age.

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

Which path will society choose? The most economical and humane is obvious. History will strongly judge those leaders who perpetuated the cruelty of addiction without offering the relief of recovery. Those more enlightened individuals, who propose that addiction can and should be ended, though perhaps not listened to now, if eventually heard, will be viewed as the guiding light that showed this generation the way out.

History is always kinder to those who cared and helped, no matter the opposition, not vicious and self serving contemporaries.

Everyone knows that the good guy always wins.

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NARCONON REALIZATION

Here is another Narconon realization. This is written by someone who had abused cocaine, heroin, pot and alcohol and came here hopelessly addicted. Now he is filled with hope wants to spread it to others.

“The other day my brother had an emergency and I had to take him to the Emergency room. I was really scared. It could have been real bad. I took him to the ER and that is where we spent last Friday night and then I spent the weekend at the house, just looking after him. It was the first scare I have had in a very long time.

I didn’t think much about it until he called me Monday night and thanked me for being an awesome brother and for helping him when he really needed it. I haven’t felt that good about myself or my actions in a really long time and have been in a great mood ever since.

My point is that now that I am sober I can really feel emotion and this is new to me. I wouldn’t change it for the world! I realize how many new things are in my life now that I want.

My foundation is getting stronger and stronger and soon I will begin building my castle!”

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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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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

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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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. 

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.  Studies also 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.

A university of Michigan study shows that when high school seniors are presented with the facts and perceive a risk, they use marijuana less.

 

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 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.

 

 

Scientists 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. 

Research clearly demonstrates that marijuana has the potential to cause problems in daily life or make a person’s existing problems worse. In one study, heavy marijuana abusers reported that the drug impaired several important measures of life achievement including physical and mental health, cognitive abilities, social life, and career status. Several studies associate workers’ marijuana smoking with increased absences, tardiness, accidents, workers’ compensation claims, and job turnover.

It is known that marijuana drug abuse is unhealthy and it is also known that drug education works.

Marijuana still remains the most highly abused drug in most areas – the solution to decrease its use is obvious.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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
 

 

Early one morning in Asheville, NC there was one building bustling with activity. There were hundreds of cars in the parking lot and people seemed to be wrapped around the building in a long line. It was like a scene from the great depression, except they were not waiting for soup.

They were waiting for methadone and knew they had to be there because the consequences of methadone withdrawal were too painful to face.

On this particular morning, as hundreds of people were arriving to get their fix, several fights broke out because someone broke in line

On the way to the clinic, a traffic accident blocked the street because a young woman who had just left the clinic had fallen asleep at the wheel. The cars involved were totaled and the traffic began to back up in front of the Methadone clinic.

The woman was charged with driving under the influence of methadone - she had just received her dose at the clinic. Later at the hospital she failed for a number of drugs including Xanax, a drug known to cause extreme drowsiness when taken with methadone.

This is not the first drug test she had failed. The methadone clinic had required that she come in every morning to get her daily dose of methadone. This was the result of her failing for Xanax several days earlier.

The methadone clinic claimed no responsibility for the fact she was driving at all. It is not part of the protocol to suggest that patients not drive to the clinic.

Earlier, when this young woman had asked to be taken off her daily dose of methadone, the counselor’s at the center advised her against it. They told her that the risk of relapse on heroin was too great a chance to take and that she should accept she would be on it for the rest of her life. The ball and chain was never to be removed.

When interviewing her friends, it was discovered that this woman was known for coming home from the methadone clinic and nodding out from the effects of the drugs. The hundreds of cigarette burns on the couch were testament to this fact.

They also reported that when she was awake she would call her friends down the street to supply her with Xanax and klonopin, (both popular choices for the people in line back at the clinic.) It is as though she did not want to be awake for as she lived life.

Methadone clinics are supposed to relieve crime and suffering.

Perhaps the people in the line at the clinic in Ashville every morning should be asked if it is really so.

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Close friend to Jackson, Deepak Chopra, reported that Jackson had asked him for prescriptions to pain killers in the past. Chopra said that he then realized that Michael must have been asking many people for prescriptions to the powerful drugs.

In an article in the Huffington Press, Chopra in part blames Jackson’s dependence on these drugs on medical colleagues who failed to realize Jackson’s growing drug addiction could lead to his death.

Jackson is known to have taken prescriptions ranging from Xanax to Demerol.

Oxycodone and hydrocodone are both synthetic opiate pain relievers similar to Demerol which Jackson is reported to have been injected with shortly before his cardiac arrest.

It is unfortunate that prescription drug abuse becomes alive as a topic for media discussion after a celebrity death. Anna Nicole’s and Heath Ledger’s deaths took center stage earlier, but the problem with prescription medication abuse continued to increase and emergency rooms are still seeing too many accidental overdoses.

In a recent press conference Joseph A. Califano Jr., the National Center on Drug 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.

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 and no controls on marketing.

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.

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At least 467 billion dollars was spent in 2005 on drug addiction, by federal, state and local governments, according to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA).

The report, the first to report all costs to local, state and federal governments, found that out of this only 1.9% went to prevention and treatment.

Joseph A. Califano, Jr., the former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare responded to a new report by CASA about the state of drug addiction treatment:

“Under any circumstances, spending more than 95 percent of taxpayer dollars on the crime, health care costs, child abuse, domestic violence, homelessness and other consequences of tobacco, alcohol and illegal and prescription drug abuse and addiction, and only two percent to relieve individuals and taxpayers of these burdens, is a reckless misallocation of public funds. In these economic times, such upside-down-cake public policy is unconscionable it’s past time for this fiscal and human waste to end.”

CASA’s Vice President and Director of Policy Research and Analysis stated:

“Despite a significant and growing body of knowledge documenting that addiction is a preventable, treatable and manageable disease, and despite the proven efficacy of prevention and treatment techniques, our nation still looks the other way while substance abuse and addiction cause illness, injury, death and crime, savage our children, overwhelm social service systems, impede education--and slap a heavy and growing tax on our citizens,”

Key findings from the report include.

· Of the $3.3 trillion total federal and state government spending, $373.9 billion – 11.2 percent, more than one of every ten dollars– was spent on tobacco, alcohol and illegal and prescription drug abuse and addiction and its consequences.

· The federal government spent $238.2 billion (9.6 percent of its budget) on substance abuse and addiction. If substance abuse and addiction were its own budget category at the federal level, it would rank sixth, behind social security, national defense, income security, Medicare and other health programs including the federal share of Medicaid.

This is just the cost to government; the cost to families can be as much as a million dollars in the lifetime of one addict.

The effectiveness of drug treatment is proven in dollars and lives saved.

The information and quotations contained in this press release was taken from a study by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. The study can be found online at their web site (www.CasaColumbia.org).

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This article is interesting in that lives may be saved by naloxone, but the victims will be none the wiser. Without adequate drug prevention and drug education following a drug overdose, the next time might not work out. What if no one remembers to bring the naloxone?

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“A pioneering Chicago program that allows opiate addicts and their friends to administer the anti-overdose medication naloxone to those in distress has been replicated in 17 states, Time magazine reported May 29.

The Chicago Recovery Alliance has distributed more than 11,000 anti-overdose kits through needle-exchange programs and other sites. In at least 1,000 instances, friends and fellow drug users have administered naloxone (Narcan) to overdosing opiate users, saving hundreds of lives, according to Chicago Recovery Alliance head Dan Bigg.

Narcan is commonly used in emergency rooms and by EMTs to stop overdoses in progress, but distributing the drug to addicts allows for a faster response to a crisis and helps avoid the situation where users are afraid to call for help because they don't want to be arrested for drug use.”

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2009/17-states-give-anti-overdose.html

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NARCONON REFLECTION

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.

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