Turtle Island Project friend – a fellow Lutheran pastor – founded the Manoomin Project that pairs American Indian guides with at-risk teens to plant wild rice restoring the important grain to northern Michigan and teaches youth respect for themselves, others and the environment. Native American elder tells teens about racism, alcoholism, hatred and hope. This is a two-minute preview of an upcoming story about: The Manoomin Project – the fourth summer. — The Manoomin Project: Overcoming racism, alcoholism – American Indian gives hope to troubled teens At-risk teenagers from northern Michigan recently learned they can turn their lives around after an Native American elder revealed he has a lot in common with the youth. American Indian Glen Bressette of Harvey spoke to the teens in a wooded area on Presque Isle near Marquette – overlooking Lake Superior and not far from the burial grounds of a famous northern Michigan Indian chief. The teenagers, many of whom have been sentenced in juvenile court, are helping the Manoomin Project – an endeavor that is restoring wild rice to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Bressette told the teens – that when he was theior age – he struggled with racism, alcoholism and run-in’s with the law. Bressette said when he was a teen – police shot at him for stealing gas. Bressette’s parents are both members the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians. His mother belongs to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and his dad is a member of the Bad River Band … Video Rating: 4 / 5
If you like classical music, here’s a new piece to try at home on your Cello. Otherwise, for anyone with half an ounce of intelligence, the video is self-explanatory. Skinheads and rightwing extremist ilk make me ashamed to be white. They blame jews for all their failures, when they need to start looking at their drug addictions and alcoholism, their kleptomania, their refusal to get higher education, their lying, stealing, cop killing and outright anti-social mental dementia. If this crap element in society didn’t have the jews on the forefront of pushing Socialism during the 1800′s and 1900′s… the degenerate neo-nazis of today would still be working under the “Capitalist Pigs” for 60 and 70 hour work weeks and forced to support their drug habit on peasant wages instead of a socialist welfare check rolling in to bankroll their addictions and alcoholism. They need to start looking at their lifestyle to figure out why they are failures instead of blaming jews and minorities. Had they lived before the Socialist revolution, they’d still been pedophiles, cop killers, drunks, drug addicts, losers and degenerates. They can blame their failures from their criminal degeneracy and drug addictions on themselves!!! Thank you.
William Cope Moyers on Good Morning America – Teens say hearing about their parents’ experiences with drugs and alcohol would make them less likely to use the substances themselves, according to a new study. Hazelden’s treatment philosophy is based on the recognition that alcohol and drug addiction is a disease and that abstinence is the best way to manage the condition. We approach addiction treatment in a holistic way, working with mind, body and spirit as components of a healthy life. Call 800-257-7810 or visit us online at hazelden.org. Video Rating: 5 / 5
Hazelden’s treatment philosophy is based on the recognition that alcohol and drug addiction is a disease and that abstinence is the best way to manage the condition. We approach addiction treatment in a holistic way, working with mind, body and spirit as components of a healthy life. Call 800-257-7810 or visit us online at hazelden.org.
First off… giving some back ground on this. I am 21, my step teens are boy 16, girl 15. Before settling down with my Hubby and before getting pregnant with my now 2 year old daughter, I was addicted to crystal meth.
So, I am not judging nor am I a virgin to drug abuse.
There mother is very difficult and believes that letting them cry and say there are sorry about using drugs is solving the problem. I would feel a little easier if this wasn’t the second time. We have them every other weekend, sleeping over and spending two days with us. ( I am not aposted to more time with them, since I feel like they don’t get what they need with their mother.)
I am just so lost… what exactly should (we) do. Granted, Hubby should be taking more of this on since I am just the “step-mom” and we are so close in age. They are good kids, talented, loveable, and charming. I don’t hold it against them by any means. P.S. I feel like it threatens my soberity as well. Your thoughts?
A new study by the Centers for Disease Control finds that one in five high school students have taken a prescription drug that they didn’t get from a doctor. These include pain pills and attention deficit drugs.
Kristen Delgado, 18, talks about overdosing on heroin, the double life of heroin addiction, and her realizations about what heroin and drug treatment may hold. Read more about her heroin addiction story at www.usnews.com
Anti-Alcohol PSA Video For Teens. From the public domain. Alcoholism is a chronic disease that makes your body dependent on alcohol. You may be obsessed with alcohol and unable to control how much you drink, even though your drinking is causing serious problems with your relationships, health, work and finances. It’s possible to have a problem with alcohol, but not display all the characteristics of alcoholism. This is known as alcohol abuse, which means you engage in excessive drinking that causes health or social problems, but you aren’t dependent on alcohol and haven’t fully lost control over the use of alcohol. Although many people assume otherwise, alcoholism is a treatable disease. Medications, counseling and self-help groups are among the therapies that can provide ongoing support to help you recover from alcoholism. Alcoholism is a disease. It is often diagnosed more through behaviors and adverse effects on functioning than by specific medical symptoms. Only 2 of the diagnostic criteria are physiological (those are tolerance changes and withdrawal symptoms). Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are associated with a broad range of medical, psychiatric, social, legal, occupational, economic, and family problems. For example, parental alcoholism underlies many family problems such as divorce, spouse abuse, child abuse and neglect, welfare dependence, and criminal behaviors, according to government sources.
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