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Date / Time: 4/30/2009 11:43 PM UTC
It is great to know that in the midst of the pharm party pandemonium in this country that there are drug counselors who get it and are doing something about it. One person like Mr. Guest can make a big difference in many lives.
We really can do something about the drug situation and a little caring goes a long ways.
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GREENSBORO — Will Guest has heard it all.
He’s 28, an amiable Midwesterner with gel-spiked hair and a small gold loop through his left ear. He runs The Insight Program, which helps local teenagers and young adults overcome drug and alcohol addiction. So, he knows about Pharm Parties. It’s when teenagers get together, dump someone’s prescription meds into a bowl and start popping them into their mouths like candy corn to get that rush. He also knows his own dance with addiction. He was a good student, a star on the football team who dated the homecoming queen. He had planned to play football at the University of Kansas. But his addictions got him arrested and kicked out of his house and his high school. He first smoked marijuana, then drank alcohol, downed pills and snorted cocaine. It started when he was 13. Today, he’s trained and 10 years sober. He works with clients from 13 to 23, and he often shares his story when someone starts making some sort of concession like, “I’ve stopped getting high, but I smoke weed now and again.” These days, Guest hears a lot about abusing pills. It’s the nation’s new epidemic. According to folks who know, nearly one in five teens has tried prescription medication to get high. That’s 19 percent — or 4.5 million teens — who’ve downed Ritalin or Adderall, Vicodin or OxyContin. That information, plucked from a 2006 survey, comes from the Partnership for a Drug Free America. Listen to Guest and you realize the new pusher in town could be your very own medicine cabinet. The drugs are easy to get and even easier to conceal. Guest’s young clients tell him they take pills for all kinds of reasons: to deal with school or a breakup, the need to communicate or fit in. But mostly, they just want to see what happens when they dabble with pills named R-Ball, Skippy and Hillbilly Heroin. Some kick their habit. Some don’t. Guest knows them all. Here’s one. Let’s call him Alex. Alex was 18, a Guilford County high school student addicted to the painkiller OxyContin. He was doing well, talking frankly in Guest’s support group or in Guest’s office, sitting across from him in a cushy chair. But when Alex got out of Insight’s treatment program, he relapsed and started using again. Alex later died. He had taken too much OxyContin. “It sucked,’’ says Guest, his voice rising. “But it could have been any one of them. There are 60 kids in the support group, and it could have been any one of them.’’ On Thursday night, Guest will join a school resource officer, a pharmacist and an emergency room doctor at a forum put together by two groups on the front lines: Alcohol and Drug Services and the Guilford County Substance Abuse Coalition. They’ll talk about the need for education to unravel the denial they see most everywhere. They’ll also share their own personal stories. Like the one about Alex. “Kids are so much in denial,’’ Guest says. “But instead of waiting until they’re 30 and hitting the bottom, parents can be the loving, logical force in their lives. Everything comes down to the love of the parents. That’s huge.’’ That happened to Guest. After eight weeks in a treatment program in Arizona, after seven months of getting his head straight, Guest came home to make amends with his parents. It happened over dinner. It’s a conversation Guest will always remember. “That was the hardest thing we ever did,’’ Guest’s mom, an emergency room nurse, told her son about kicking him out of the house. “But I’m glad we did it.’’ “You saved my life,’’ Guest responded. http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/04/27/article/family_medicine_cabinet_is_the_new_drug_dealer
So, he knows about Pharm Parties. It’s when teenagers get together, dump someone’s prescription meds into a bowl and start popping them into their mouths like candy corn to get that rush.
He also knows his own dance with addiction. He was a good student, a star on the football team who dated the homecoming queen. He had planned to play football at the University of Kansas. But his addictions got him arrested and kicked out of his house and his high school. He first smoked marijuana, then drank alcohol, downed pills and snorted cocaine. It started when he was 13. Today, he’s trained and 10 years sober. He works with clients from 13 to 23, and he often shares his story when someone starts making some sort of concession like, “I’ve stopped getting high, but I smoke weed now and again.” These days, Guest hears a lot about abusing pills. It’s the nation’s new epidemic. According to folks who know, nearly one in five teens has tried prescription medication to get high. That’s 19 percent — or 4.5 million teens — who’ve downed Ritalin or Adderall, Vicodin or OxyContin. That information, plucked from a 2006 survey, comes from the Partnership for a Drug Free America. Listen to Guest and you realize the new pusher in town could be your very own medicine cabinet. The drugs are easy to get and even easier to conceal. Guest’s young clients tell him they take pills for all kinds of reasons: to deal with school or a breakup, the need to communicate or fit in. But mostly, they just want to see what happens when they dabble with pills named R-Ball, Skippy and Hillbilly Heroin. Some kick their habit. Some don’t. Guest knows them all. Here’s one. Let’s call him Alex. Alex was 18, a Guilford County high school student addicted to the painkiller OxyContin. He was doing well, talking frankly in Guest’s support group or in Guest’s office, sitting across from him in a cushy chair. But when Alex got out of Insight’s treatment program, he relapsed and started using again. Alex later died. He had taken too much OxyContin. “It sucked,’’ says Guest, his voice rising. “But it could have been any one of them. There are 60 kids in the support group, and it could have been any one of them.’’ On Thursday night, Guest will join a school resource officer, a pharmacist and an emergency room doctor at a forum put together by two groups on the front lines: Alcohol and Drug Services and the Guilford County Substance Abuse Coalition. They’ll talk about the need for education to unravel the denial they see most everywhere. They’ll also share their own personal stories. Like the one about Alex. “Kids are so much in denial,’’ Guest says. “But instead of waiting until they’re 30 and hitting the bottom, parents can be the loving, logical force in their lives. Everything comes down to the love of the parents. That’s huge.’’ That happened to Guest. After eight weeks in a treatment program in Arizona, after seven months of getting his head straight, Guest came home to make amends with his parents. It happened over dinner. It’s a conversation Guest will always remember. “That was the hardest thing we ever did,’’ Guest’s mom, an emergency room nurse, told her son about kicking him out of the house. “But I’m glad we did it.’’ “You saved my life,’’ Guest responded. http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/04/27/article/family_medicine_cabinet_is_the_new_drug_dealer
He was a good student, a star on the football team who dated the homecoming queen. He had planned to play football at the University of Kansas. But his addictions got him arrested and kicked out of his house and his high school.
He first smoked marijuana, then drank alcohol, downed pills and snorted cocaine. It started when he was 13.
Today, he’s trained and 10 years sober. He works with clients from 13 to 23, and he often shares his story when someone starts making some sort of concession like, “I’ve stopped getting high, but I smoke weed now and again.”
These days, Guest hears a lot about abusing pills. It’s the nation’s new epidemic.
According to folks who know, nearly one in five teens has tried prescription medication to get high. That’s 19 percent — or 4.5 million teens — who’ve downed Ritalin or Adderall, Vicodin or OxyContin. That information, plucked from a 2006 survey, comes from the Partnership for a Drug Free America. Listen to Guest and you realize the new pusher in town could be your very own medicine cabinet. The drugs are easy to get and even easier to conceal. Guest’s young clients tell him they take pills for all kinds of reasons: to deal with school or a breakup, the need to communicate or fit in. But mostly, they just want to see what happens when they dabble with pills named R-Ball, Skippy and Hillbilly Heroin. Some kick their habit. Some don’t. Guest knows them all. Here’s one. Let’s call him Alex. Alex was 18, a Guilford County high school student addicted to the painkiller OxyContin. He was doing well, talking frankly in Guest’s support group or in Guest’s office, sitting across from him in a cushy chair. But when Alex got out of Insight’s treatment program, he relapsed and started using again. Alex later died. He had taken too much OxyContin. “It sucked,’’ says Guest, his voice rising. “But it could have been any one of them. There are 60 kids in the support group, and it could have been any one of them.’’ On Thursday night, Guest will join a school resource officer, a pharmacist and an emergency room doctor at a forum put together by two groups on the front lines: Alcohol and Drug Services and the Guilford County Substance Abuse Coalition. They’ll talk about the need for education to unravel the denial they see most everywhere. They’ll also share their own personal stories. Like the one about Alex. “Kids are so much in denial,’’ Guest says. “But instead of waiting until they’re 30 and hitting the bottom, parents can be the loving, logical force in their lives. Everything comes down to the love of the parents. That’s huge.’’ That happened to Guest. After eight weeks in a treatment program in Arizona, after seven months of getting his head straight, Guest came home to make amends with his parents. It happened over dinner. It’s a conversation Guest will always remember. “That was the hardest thing we ever did,’’ Guest’s mom, an emergency room nurse, told her son about kicking him out of the house. “But I’m glad we did it.’’ “You saved my life,’’ Guest responded. http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/04/27/article/family_medicine_cabinet_is_the_new_drug_dealer
That information, plucked from a 2006 survey, comes from the Partnership for a Drug Free America.
Listen to Guest and you realize the new pusher in town could be your very own medicine cabinet. The drugs are easy to get and even easier to conceal. Guest’s young clients tell him they take pills for all kinds of reasons: to deal with school or a breakup, the need to communicate or fit in.
But mostly, they just want to see what happens when they dabble with pills named R-Ball, Skippy and Hillbilly Heroin.
Some kick their habit. Some don’t. Guest knows them all.
Here’s one. Let’s call him Alex.
Alex was 18, a Guilford County high school student addicted to the painkiller OxyContin. He was doing well, talking frankly in Guest’s support group or in Guest’s office, sitting across from him in a cushy chair.
But when Alex got out of Insight’s treatment program, he relapsed and started using again. Alex later died. He had taken too much OxyContin.
“It sucked,’’ says Guest, his voice rising. “But it could have been any one of them. There are 60 kids in the support group, and it could have been any one of them.’’
On Thursday night, Guest will join a school resource officer, a pharmacist and an emergency room doctor at a forum put together by two groups on the front lines: Alcohol and Drug Services and the Guilford County Substance Abuse Coalition.
They’ll talk about the need for education to unravel the denial they see most everywhere. They’ll also share their own personal stories.
Like the one about Alex.
“Kids are so much in denial,’’ Guest says. “But instead of waiting until they’re 30 and hitting the bottom, parents can be the loving, logical force in their lives. Everything comes down to the love of the parents. That’s huge.’’
That happened to Guest. After eight weeks in a treatment program in Arizona, after seven months of getting his head straight, Guest came home to make amends with his parents. It happened over dinner. It’s a conversation Guest will always remember.
“That was the hardest thing we ever did,’’ Guest’s mom, an emergency room nurse, told her son about kicking him out of the house. “But I’m glad we did it.’’
“You saved my life,’’ Guest responded.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/04/27/article/family_medicine_cabinet_is_the_new_drug_dealer
Date / Time: 4/30/2009 5:25 PM UTC
There were enough resources to do a study that points out the obvious – binge drinking amongst teens is damaging and could affect school performance. How much did this study cost?
On the other hand according to Join Together –“, In a move that has stunned members of the addiction community, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) announced earlier this month that it has cut all of its Alcohol Policies Project staff except longtime director George Hacker, effectively ending the only full-time advocacy effort on alcohol policy issues on Capitol Hill.”
WHERE ARE OUR PRIORITIES?
It is up to families to educate their teens and where there is a drug or alcohol problem, get them effective drug treatment. Narconon 877-413-3073
“A new MRI study finds that adolescents damage the white matter in their brain -- which helps relay information between brain cells -- when they binge on alcohol, HealthDay News reported April 21.
Researchers said that the study of 28 teens indicates that binge drinking could impair thinking and memory among teens, perhaps even affecting performance in school. Past studies have revealed white-matter damage in adult alcoholics.
"It could be that episodes of binge drinking during the teenage years, when their brain is still developing, could have adversely influenced the brain's white matter development," said lead researcher Susan F. Tapert of the University of California at San Diego and director of Substance Abuse/Mental Illness at the VA San Diego Healthcare System.
Given the current rate of adolescent binge drinking in the U.S., Tapert said that one in four teens could be at risk of white-matter damage due to heavy alcohol use.”
The report was published online in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Date / Time: 4/30/2009 3:32 PM UTC
There always seems to be plenty of resources to do studies like this but where are the resources to do something about discovered problems? Information is only as valuable as it is known by others and there are more avenues of communication available than ever to the citizens of planet earth.
Let Jenny Craig worry about the calories and get some studies with outcomes that can make a difference.
In the meanwhile anyone fat from over consumption of alcohol probably has some other problems and needs effective alcohol treatment.
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“New survey results from the U.K. Department of Health suggest that many people aren't aware of how many calories they consume while drinking alcohol, Medical News Today reported April 17.
The survey of 2,000 adults in the U.K. found that most respondents underestimated the caloric content of alcoholic beverages. For example, 42 percent of women surveyed said they didn't know that the caloric content of a glass of white wine was equal to that of a bag of chips, and 40 percent of men didn't know that a pint of lager beer has as many calories as a sausage roll.
The survey also found that almost 40 percent of drinkers said they were likely to eat more than usual or give up on a healthy diet when they drank more than the recommended daily limit.
Consuming two large glasses of white wine puts women above their recommended daily alcohol limit, experts noted, and adds up to about a fifth (370 calories) of what is recommended for a woman's daily caloric intake.
"It's not only the calories in the drinks themselves that can help to pile on the pounds; we're also more likely to eat fatty foods when we've had one too many," said U.K. Health Minister Phil Hope. "To avoid piling on the pounds we should try to drink within the recommended limits, eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly.”
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2009/alcohol-caloric-content-a.html
Date / Time: 4/30/2009 2:18 PM UTC
NARCONON REALIZATION
Here is a Narconon realization written from someone who came here hopelessly addicted to alcohol. After 5 DUIs this person felt that there was no hope – and yet he found it in the Narconon drug treatment.
“I think that after this exercise today I realize what the most important thing for me to look at - and that is my life. I want more than anything to stay focused on me, and then my loved ones. I really do believe in making others happy and I can do that if I make myself happy.
Drugs and alcohol really do not make anyone happy – they just think it does. Their judgment is cloudy. Only the individual can make themselves happy.”
It is the simple wins in life that can change it. Those wins are available whether a person has abused alcohol, cocaine, pot, methamphetamine or any other drug of abuse. Narconon is the New Life Program. 877-413-3073
Date / Time: 4/29/2009 7:41 PM UTC
Again, another study that shows what we already knew – abusing alcohol is deadly. It is easy to study the ill-effects of alcohol, but harder to face what it takes to deal with the alcohol addiction. Those who have overcome addiction know that stable recovery is achievable but it takes development of a personal sense of ethics backed up by an effective drug treatment program.
Destroying one’s liver in an attempt to get relief from life difficulties is not a viable solution.
Here is the article from Join Together
“Drunk-driving crashes and alcohol overdoses may get more public attention, but research shows that most alcohol-related deaths are caused by something much more mundane: liver disease.
Science Daily reported April 24 that researchers found that alcohol consumption was responsible for 3.8 percent of all deaths in Portugal annually, with 28.3 percent of deaths caused by liver disease. Other leading causes of alcohol-related deaths included auto crashes (26.2 percent) and cancer (21 percent).
Alcohol-related diseases accounted for 1.25 percent of all health expenditures in Portugal, researchers led by Helena Cortez-Pinto of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Lisbon also found. "By quantifying the significant impact alcohol has on the nation's health, we highlight the need for effective strategies to promote lifestyle changes and moderate alcohol consumption to reduce death rates, the incidence of liver disease and related costs to the healthcare system," said Cortez-Pinto.”
The research was presented at EASL 2009, the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver in Copenhagen, Denmark.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2008/most-alcohol-related-deaths.html
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Date / Time: 4/29/2009 6:42 PM UTC
In celebration of our 7th birthday Narconon of Georgia thanks all those we have had the honor of helping and we thank those who have helped us.
We have learned something from each person we have met along the way and our associations have made us what we are today.
Call us at 877-413-3073 if you or someone you know needs our help with addiction.
From the Staff of Narconon of Georgia
Date / Time: 4/29/2009 4:08 PM UTC
The realizations are coming fast and furious today at Narconon drug treatment and here is another one.
“With this exercise my perception is increasing. All parts of this room are the room. I can have contact with any part of the room, but I must accept it all as the room.
All parts of me are me and I must accept them all, but I can and have let go of the past that is not good and kept the past that is. I’m doing the same with my present and my future for the remaining of my life.
Even in the present and future I am sure there will be parts of me and people, places and things that I must choose to accept as they are. The only difference is that I also know that I can be in contact with all to the degree that best suits me, my present and my future as I see it in the present day.
Any intoxicants that will draw me back in so I’m not at my best to see what’s about me will no longer be allowed in my life. Clear perception is my present and future.”
Anyone’s perception can increase and that is part of the secret of overcoming drug addiction, whether it is to cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine or pot.
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