As 2009 comes to an end, we are looking forward to a new year and a new decade.
Traditionally this is a time of new beginnings, of changes for the better we try to implement into our daily lives.
People will work for a promotion in the new year, quit smoking or lose weight, clean house and start fresh.
Many who live with addiction look to the new year as a time to pour the coals onto living a drug and alcohol free life. Ending addiction and choosing life.
This is a good goal for the new year, very positive and will affect many other lives.
If you are personally addicted or have someone you care about who is, take a look at setting this as a 2010 goal.
It will likely be difficult to do, you will have to deal with issues you don’t really want to take a look at . . .
But take heart - look at the goal, health, family, friendships extending out into the futrue.
It is a good goal.
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Archive for December, 2009
A New Beginning
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Prescription Abuse
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009It has become so common. Legal drug addiction. So many people are getting addicted to their pain killers. People who have never had any drug use have an accident, or put their back out, suffer some kind of pain and get prescribed an opiate pain killer and get addicted.
Worse yet, these drugs are easy for teens to get a hold of. Check out the medicine cabinet and there are all the goodies. Oh guess what you can get them on the internet too. Police reports of Pharma Parties are becoming common within the younger and younger crowds.
We need to wake up here. We are talking about opiate drugs - very addictive and lethal.
The International Narcotic Control Board estimates that 11.5 tons of oxycodone was manufactured world wide in 1998 and this grew to 75.2 tons in 2007. The United States has the highest total consumption world wide and the highest per capita consumption followed by Canada, Denmark, Australia and Norway.
A Canadian study released in November 2009 found painkillers causing twice the number of opiate deaths than two decades ago. It also found a dramatic rise in prescriptions to oxycodone found in Oxy Contin and Percocet.
With limited drug rehabilitation facilities available the brakes need to go on the prescribing of such substances.
Green Mental Health
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Here is a video by a physician/psychiatrist Hyla Cass that gives you an idea of what we mean by holistic.
She is talking about treating the whole person, not symptoms and she is inclined to do so without the use of drugs where the cause can be corrected by other mean.
The Unholy Alliance
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009The Unholy Alliance Between the DSM (the diagnostic manual written and used by psychiatrists) and the Pharma Industry.
If I had spent millions of dollars producing a brand new drug but I didn’t have anyone to sell it to that would be a bad investment. However if I had spent millions of dollars producing a new drug and could go to a friend and ask them to invent a use for it, and I could also provide a lot of advertising for that application to make it a marketable, desired product to the masses, that would be a good investment.
If my same friend’s job was introducing (at the consumer’s costs for my friend’s introduction) the consumer to my product, then we would have a very workable arrangement. I win because he is selling my product for me, my friend wins because he has a line up of consumers who have been convinced that there is something wrong with them that only my friend has access to the remedy for, and here’s the bone, only he can get it for them.
The consumer pays well for his time (or their insurance pays well on their behalf).
So the only cure, well we can’t really go that far so let’s say relief, is to buy my product and the only place they can buy it is from my friend (exclusive territory in “sales lingo”) then it’s all sewn up.
Brilliant! I only hope that some brighter than average consumer doesn’t start getting nosey about who is authoring the conditions. The “diseases” that never used to exist, and what their relationship is to me. Because gee if that were to happen, it would put both me and my friend out of business. I would have to go back to hawking used cars or something. Gee, now that is a scary thought . . .
Whitney Houston - Still Whacked on Crack?
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009After a decade of rising to the unquestioned top of her field, and another decade of her falling from grace into crack addiction, marital troubles, her young daughter threatening to kill her mother with a knife and then her daughter’s own suicide attempt, it has been a long, sorrowful downhill slide to watch happen to one so loved and revered the world over. Happily, we have very recently watched Whitney raise herself up and out of her troubling circumstances. She was encouraged to go into rehab by loving family members. And she did. She got things on track, producing another monumental album and the Whitney that the world loves to love was back to her unbelievable performance level, perhaps even enriched by the struggles she had to overcome to get there again. Back on top and the world applauded.
But troubling evidence is mounting that she is not quite out of the woods yet. Several unprofessional and painfully publicized performances after the release of her latest blockbuster album leads to the conclusion that all is not remedied and she is still embroiled in drug use.
So many families have seen this troubling and heartbreaking pattern with crack addiction. It is often seen as one of the hardest addictions to heal from. Thinking a short - 30 day - 12 Step program is going to give the person all the tools needed to destroy one’s demons, especially a demon as malicious and cunning as crack is folly. In seeking a rehab program for a loved one or for yourself consider the benefits of a long term drug rehab program that heals all the various levels of addiction. It takes more than thirty days to heal from this deep a wound,