STEP ONE
Admitting you are powerless over your life does not mean you are weak it means your strong and courageous.One of the toughest critics in life is myself ,and my way of dealing with myself was to run and hide and self medicate.Admitting you cant handle certain times in life and admitting there has to be a better way and you are powerless is the beginning of humility when you finally get there then step one begins.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Anthrax Tainted Heroin Kills 3 in Scotland
Six Scottish heroin users have now contracted Anthrax from contaminated heroin – three have so far died and the remaining three are responding well to treatment in hospital.
Anthrax is a deadly bacterial infection that most commonly afflicts hoofed animals, such as cattle, in Asia and Africa. Humans can contract the infection by inhaling the spores, or most commonly, through contact with the skin. Anthrax is not generally spread person to person.
Health officials suspect that a batch of heroin now in circulation may have been cut with infected bone meal, which is sometimes added to pure heroin to dilute the powder. Heroin is often processed in areas of the world which have more frequent outbreaks of anthrax infected cattle.
Dr. Syed Ahmed, a public health medicine expert, warned heroin users to be vigilant, saying, “The possible presence of a batch of heroin contaminated with anthrax makes drug injecting even riskier and even more dangerous. I urge all drug injecting heroin users to be extremely alert and to seek urgent medical advice if they experienced an infection."
Glasgow police and health officials at the NHS say they’re working to root out the source of the contaminated heroin.
Read more: Anthrax Tainted Heroin Kills 3 in Scotland
Afghani Town Banishes Drug Users – Burns Homes of Dealers
Village elders in Ghazni Province Afghanistan have enacted edicts that demand the banishment from town of drug users, and called for villagers to burn down the homes of drug dealers who don’t heed warnings to stop plying their wares.
Desperate to end the cycle of heroin addiction and despair that had plagued the men in Ghazni Province in remote Eastern Afghanistan, tribal elders called for draconian new measures intended to deter use and trafficking.
Under the new measures:
- Villagers using drugs are given a deadline to quit and those that cannot or will not quit by that date are evicted from the village and not allowed back into the town until they can prove their abstinence.
- Sellers of drugs are first given a warning, and then a hefty fine (about $2000 USD). Should a drug dealer continue to peddle after getting fined, the villagers gather together and as a third strike penalty, burn down the offender’s home.
Tribal elder Mohammad Razaq claims the strict measures are necessary, saying, "Heroin addiction among our young people was destroying us. This destruction was getting worse and worse every day and we felt that we had no choice but to deal with it in this way.
So far, more than 200 addicts have been evicted from the village.
Although the local police chief applauds the villagers for taking things into their own hands, the head of Ghazni’s Provincial hospital, Dr. Ismail Ibrahimzai, disagrees with the idea, saying, "It is not possible to cure addiction by force, we have to encourage addicts to come to the treatment centres when they are ready. If there is no support network for them, and no health care, suddenly being forced to stop the drugs can be life-threatening."
He says that treatment centers are available for the estimated 20 000 mostly men but also women and children addicted to heroin in the province.
Read more: Afghani Town Banishes Drug Users – Burns Homes of Dealers
Twelve Stepping to Recovery Daily Thought !
STEP ONE !
Surrender, and I am powerless to control myself , are you kidding me.When I began my journey to recovery facing the first step was hard for me to put my mind and heart into it especially when you told me to give my will to a higher power! God and Jesus are the Higher Powers and are the ones I needed to give my life to because they are real and they will actually help you when you get out of the way and truly stop trying to run your life the way you think it should go. Realizing in your addiction that living your life the way you have been living it ,the pain sorrow fear deceit and every other thing we do to get through the day is not what this world or your life is all about.Step one is a tough one but it works and it is absolutely neccessary , if we are to begin that journey to recovery. Ask Jesus to help forgive and guide you He will!
Surrender, and I am powerless to control myself , are you kidding me.When I began my journey to recovery facing the first step was hard for me to put my mind and heart into it especially when you told me to give my will to a higher power! God and Jesus are the Higher Powers and are the ones I needed to give my life to because they are real and they will actually help you when you get out of the way and truly stop trying to run your life the way you think it should go. Realizing in your addiction that living your life the way you have been living it ,the pain sorrow fear deceit and every other thing we do to get through the day is not what this world or your life is all about.Step one is a tough one but it works and it is absolutely neccessary , if we are to begin that journey to recovery. Ask Jesus to help forgive and guide you He will!
Florida Lawmakers Propose Making Synthetic Drug Crimes Third-Degree Felony
Florida Lawmakers Propose Making Synthetic Drug Crimes Third-Degree Felony
Legislators in Florida have proposed making crimes related to the manufacture, delivery or sale of synthetic drugs such as “bath salts” and “K2” a third-degree felony.
Last year, the state legislature banned several forms of synthetic drugs. Since then, chemists have been able to come up with similar formulas that evade the law, The Miami Herald reports.
“We will not allow chemists who are altering the components of these dangerous synthetic drugs to circumvent state law,” Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a news release. “Prompt action by the legislature will help protect our communities from the growing threat of synthetic drug abuse.”
The new measure “allows us as law enforcement to be one step ahead of the chemists for a short period of time,” said Assistant Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Jim Madden.
The proposed legislation will make it a third-degree felony for an individual to “sell, manufacture, or deliver, or possess with intent to sell, manufacture or deliver” new forms of synthetic bath salts and synthetic marijuana, or K2.
According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, the number of calls to centers regarding exposure to bath salts rose from 304 in 2010, to 6,138 in 2011. In January 2012, centers received 228 calls related to bath salts.
DEA Targets Large Industry Players in Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse
DEA Targets Large Industry Players in Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse
When the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently charged a major health care company and four pharmacies with violating their licenses to sell controlled drugs, it marked the most aggressive efforts by the agency to combat prescription drug abuse, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The DEA said Cardinal Health had an unusually high number of shipments of controlled painkillers to four pharmacies. The agency suspended Cardinal Health’s controlled substance license at its distribution center in Lakeland, Florida. The center serves 2,500 pharmacies in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. After the DEA suspended the company’s license, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against the DEA’s suspension order.
The agency also moved to suspend four pharmacies in Sanford, Florida, including two CVS pharmacies, from selling controlled substances.
A federal judge has granted CVS a temporary restraining order, which will allow the company to continue to sell controlled prescription drugs at two pharmacies in Florida. Judge Amy Berman Jackson, of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., said it was likely CVS will be able to show that the DEA did not establish the “imminent danger to public health” that is needed to suspend pharmacies’ registrations.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the DEA said the pharmacies were dispensing “staggering” amounts of oxycodone. The agency also said in 2011, Cardinal shipped enough oxycodone to Sanford to give 59 of the pills to every man, woman, and child there.
The DEA’s strategy targets not only individual doctors and patients, but also retail chains and suppliers. The agency wants these companies to closely monitor where their drugs are going, and to quickly act on signs they are being diverted.
Both Cardinal and CVS deny any wrongdoing, and say they did react quickly when they saw signs of problems with controlled drugs. Cardinal said it needs better guidance from the DEA on how it should police the pharmacies and hospitals it distributes drugs to.
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