Narconon of Georgia  

$0This 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.$0$0$0$0Gordon Campbell climbed out of that gutter through participating in effective drug rehab and is continuing to help by communicating his story.  It gives hope.$0$0$0$0When 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.$0$0$0$0Whether it has been through abuse of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine or other drugs, society has lost too many of its future leaders through addiction.$0$0$0$0$0We can prevent it for some through effective drug education.  For the others, already addicted, society can provide effective drug treatment.$0$0$0$0$0Narconon  877-413-3073$0$0 $0$0“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.$0$0$0$0$0Cruising 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.$0$0$0$0$0"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.$0$0$0$0$0"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.$0$0$0$0$0Then it all came crashing down, starting one fateful night in 2004.$0$0$0$0$0"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."…….$0$0$0$0$0© Copyright (c) The Victoria Times Colonist$0$0 $0$0http://www.timescolonist.com/Rising+political+star+life+shattered+drug+addiction/1718454/story.html $0$0$0$0$0