‘The Curious Case of Curt Flood,’ Revisits a Suit Against Baseball
“The Curious Case of Curt Flood,” a new HBO Sports documentary, raises the question: what if Flood’s case against baseball’s reserve clause had had a better advocate before the Supreme Court? Read more on New York Times
Cardiff calls time on street drinkers
Police and partners in Cardiff are cracking down on anti-social behaviour in the city centre. Officers have teamed up with Cardiff Council’s Anti Social Behaviour and outreach teams to tackle issues associated with street drinkers. Read more on NewsWales
The message I dropped off for my friend scott who just entered intensive drug and alcohol rehab. Image by Brian Daniel Eisenberg
State launching fight against pill mills
Florida is known as the pill mill capital of the country and south Florida is ground zero for prescription drug abuse. Now Florida’s attorney general is fighting back, launching a new offensive to crack down on the illegal activity. Read more on NBC 2 Fort Myers
Racine doctors indicted on drug charges
MILWAUKEE – Two Racine doctors face federal charges for allegedly being part of a cocaine distribution ring operating in Racine and Kenosha counties from 2006-2009. Read more on The Journal Times
Woman takes action against stalker
After receiving the first of several threatening and foul phone calls at her Hyde Park home from an unidentified man, Laurie Russo became frightened. Then, she decided she wasn’t going to be intimidated by the caller – and she took action. Read more on The Cincinnati Enquirer
Educating on the risks of HIV and alcohol
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is encouraging healthcare providers in developing countries to use an evidence-based intervention designed by researchers at UConn’s Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention (CHIP) to reduce alcohol-related HIV risk behaviors in South Africa. Read more on PhysOrg
Why happiness is elusive
Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard, get the big promotion, meet the right person, win the lottery we’ll be successful and therefore happy. Yet recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have found that’s not the case. Happiness itself is the precursor to success and fulfilment, not the other way around. Amanda Morrall talks to Harvard University’s Shawn Achor, author of … Read more on Stuff
Report: State suicide-prevention grants to villages plummet
Alaska has one of the nation’s highest suicide rates but lacks the staff to apply for “numerous” grants that could help address the problem, according to a new report. Read more on The Bristol Bay Times
Former doda addict warns against the drug
The opiate doda is growing in popularity in Metro Vancouver’s South Asian community, but one recovering addict warns that the drug nearly destroyed his life. Read more on CTV British Columbia
Ryan Leaf Quietly Returns Home To Build A Life
Ryan Leaf is up early each day and often out the door before his parents get up. He wants to stay busy, see people if he can. It’s a routine he needs. Read more on KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma
Here in Washington DC, there’s a group called “Second Genesis” that I’ve given money to that is supposed to be pretty successful in getting crack and heroin users off drugs, using a “tough love” method.
I think the founders / organizers are probably Jewish, judging from their literature, but I’m not sure of this.
Are there either religiously oriented or purely secular groups that you know about & recommend supporting, that are helping people to escape from substance abuse & addiction?
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World renowned Interventionist and Author Jeff Jay was one of the keynote speakers, along with his wife, Debra Jay, at a joint program of Brighton Hospital (Michigan) and the Lawyers and Judges Assistance Program (LJAP) of the State Bar of Michigan. The program was presented on April 16, 2009 under the auspices of the Brighton National Addiction Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Brighton Hospitals addiction treatment mission. The Lawyers and Judges Assistance Program helps impaired lawyers, judges and law students to seek rehabilitation and maintain long term sobriety and success in their legal careers. Jeff Jays remarks are applicable to all who suffer from addictions. This is a video clip of Jeff Jays remarks explaining the process of Intervention against addiction to alcohol, substances or what is called process addiction to gambling and other addicting processes. Jeff conducts interventions all over the planet for alcoholism, drug addiction and anxiety disorders, bi-polar disease, eating disorders, gambling addiction, sex addiction and other issues. He is the co-author of LOVE FIRST, A NEW APPROACH TO INTERVENTION FOR ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ADDICTION as well as a newly released book, AT WITS END, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW WHEN A LOVED ONE IS DIAGNOSED WITH ADDICTION AND MENTAL ILLNESS. Jeff Jay has appeared as an addictions expert on CNN, PBS and the Jane Pauley Show.
When the Soviet Union fell and greater freedoms became available to its citizens, an undesirable side effect of this change was greater access to narcotics. In particular, heroin. And, as in many other countries, along with a heroin epidemic comes HIV infections resulting from the sharing of needles used to inject heroin. Estimates of the number of heroin addicts vary from three million to six million of the country’s 142 million citizens.
Like in America, some Russian doctors propose the use of substitution therapy with methadone. But unlike America, the treatment of heroin addiction with methadone is illegal. In fact, the discussion of the subject is forbidden, as is the promotion of the treatment on a website. Sometimes, even the mentioning it in conversation can bring legal sanctions down on a person.
In 2006, an influential anti-methadone article was published in the Russian Medical Newspaper, then reprinted and distributed to addiction treatment specialists. The article claims that the methadone will be subject to illegal diversion and that heroin addicts are kept addicted while the pharmaceutical companies make a profit. Passions run high as medical and government officials bicker back and forth on risk reduction through substitute drugs that keep people from injecting heroin illegally, and other forms of treatment.
“If harm reduction is one’s only goal, then methadone may be a viable treatment,” stated Derry Hallmark, Director of Admissions and Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor at Narconon Arrowhead. Narconon Arrowhead is one of the country’s leading drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, located in Canadian, Oklahoma. “However, if a person’s goal is to live drug-free, then methadone may not be the best option to treat heroin or opiate addiction. Some drug treatment professionals may keep a person on methadone substitution for a long time, meaning that the person does not learn to live drug-free on their own.”
The Narconon program is a fully drug-free program, meaning that every participant goes through a withdrawal step at the beginning of the program, assisted by nutritional support and physical exercises that calm and extrovert the person and relieve the discomfort of withdrawal. This is followed by a sauna program that uses a dry-heat combined with nutrition and an exercise program. This step flushes out old drug residues that may be connected with cravings. With lowered or eliminated cravings, the former addict is now free to take part in the counseling that allows them to leave guilt and depression behind, and learn the life skills that can enable them to make drug-free decisions in the future.
“The Narconon program offers a viable alternative for the person who wishes to experience life without any reliance on drugs,” added Mr. Hallmark. “Our seventy percent success rate means that we are able to return many drug-free individuals to productive lives.”
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