12 STEPPING TO RECOVERY DAILY THOUGHT!! 4-6-12

.STEP-1 Powerless / Unmanageable!

STEP-2 We have come to believe that a power greater than our selves can restore us sanity.




It took me thirty two years to get to step one and once there I realized wow I made a mess.My mother spent thirty two years praying I would find my way and start living life right well I am glad she did.Now lets look at the power greater than ourselves.That power is GOD your heavenly father the creator of you and the universe.There are alot of groups out there who are not specific at all in regards to a higher power and that just leaves people lost and looking for answers.God is the one and only true higher power in the universe and he misses you HIS creation.Your life is a mess because you lived apart from him and have tried to live life on your own terms didn't work did it.GOD loves us so much that HE wrote a two thousand page instruction manual for us to read and live by.Try putting together a bicycle with out the directions your going to mess it up aren't you.Well the same thing goes for our lives ,if your not reading the instructions(BIBLE) your gonna screw it up. Thats why your life is unmanageable and you are powerless we were not meant to live this life alone and away from GOD.Start living life according to the book and he will restore you to sanity.



Romans 10:9

New International Version (NIV)
9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Sales of Prescription Painkillers Increasing Across the United States, Analysis Shows

By Join Together Staff | April 5, 2012 | 1 Comment | Filed in Prescription Drugs


Sales of oxycodone and hydrocodone are sharply rising in areas of the United States where these prescription painkillers were not as popular in the past, according to an analysis by the Associated Press. The rise in sales is driven by an aging population with pain issues, as well as an increase in addiction, experts say.

The AP found a dramatic increase in the distribution of oxycodone between 2000 and 2010 in areas including New York’s Staten Island and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hydrocodone use is rising in Appalachia and in the Midwest, the AP found, after analyzing data from the Drug Enforcement Administration. Painkiller sales are spreading rapidly in areas where there are few resources to treat people who become addicted.

The increase in prescription painkiller use coincides with a rise in overdose deaths and pharmacy robberies, the article notes.

The number of Americans who died from overdoses of prescription painkillers more than tripled in the past decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More people now die from painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined. An estimated 14,800 people died in the United States from painkiller overdoses in 2008, a more than threefold jump from the 4,000 deaths recorded in 1999, the CDC said in a report released last November.

While 40 states have prescription drug monitoring programs, many are not linked together, according to the AP. That means patients can go from one state to another shopping for pills. Currently there is no federal monitoring of prescription drugs at the patient level.

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Free Tool Kit To Help Parents save their teens!

Shocked by what you saw last week, Joseph? You can do something about it.

There was a disturbing number in the infographic we shared with you last week: 90%. That's the percentage of addictions that start in the teen years. The infographic got a ton of shares on Facebook, but it left people wondering how to tackle the problem.

We have an answer. Actually, a lot of answers. They're all in our Parent Toolkit -- and you can make a huge impact on the teens in your life by spreading the word about it.

Share our Parent Toolkit and take on substance abuse now.

The Partnership at Drugfree.org has put a lot of work into this toolkit, and it gets real results.

It has expert tips on spotting alcohol and drug use. It guides you on how to make those tough conversations with teens a lot easier. It even has advice divided up by age group. And that's just the beginning.

Knowledge is power -- and we're more powerful when we share our knowledge.

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May 2012 Adolescents Webinar

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Description: Adolescents with substance use disorders are a special population with special needs. Building a therapeutic alliance with them can be difficult and challenging. This webinar provides a skill- and metaphor-based method for conceptualizing the therapeutic alliance with adolescents. It will provide clinicians with the tools that are necessary for creating a therapeutic bond with an often untrusting, resistant population.



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As a result of participating in this webinar, you will be able to:
achieve an understanding of the specific skills that assist in forming a therapeutic relationship with a teen and why the use of skills is preferred over a manualized process;
be able to use the “House Metaphor” as a tool in clinical observation and as a developmental model of therapeutic relationships with adolescents; and
understand why alliance means relationship.



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Kansas Cafferty has been in the behavioral healthcare field for 15 years. His experience and training have emphasis in the areas of addiction, eating disorders, adolescents, chronic relapse and PTSD. He has served on the NAADAC Adolescent Specialty Leadership Committee since 2007. He is the founder and director of True North Recovery Services in Carlsbad, CA and is the Director of Clinical Services for Orange County Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine in Newport Beach, CA. He has been a featured author in multiple industry publications including "Addiction Professional" magazine and is an articulate and adept trainer and presenter.






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