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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
September 10 Chp 38 v 4 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALMS
My guilt overwhelms me - It is a burden too heavy to bear .
Step 8 - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Burden - a load, especially a heavy one.
Overwhelm - to affect (someone) very strongly. : to cause (someone) to have too many things to deal with. : to defeat (someone or something) completely ...
The pains we cause others become a load that we carry .How many times have you replayed it in your head . How often do you lose sleep ! What causes you to feel sick to the stomach . GUILT ! It is a prison that will eat you alive and then bury you . Steps 4 through 8 will turn the lights on in your prison but you must use the keys offered in step 8 to open the door .Everyone knows how thick and heavy a prison door is.The door is designed to keep you trapped . No one else can open the door it is too heavy and it is your door to be opened only by you and GOD .
With his mouth the godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escape. (Proverbs 11:9)
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DEA Will Allow Unused Narcotic Painkillers to be Returned to Pharmacies
September 9th, 2014/
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced Monday it will allow unused narcotic painkillers such as OxyContin to be returned to pharmacies. Until now, pharmacies were not allowed to accept unused opioid painkillers. The Controlled Substances Act required patients to dispose of the drugs themselves or give them to law enforcement during twice-yearly national “take-back” events.
Consumers will also be permitted to mail unused prescription medications to an authorized collector, in packages that will be available at pharmacies and locations including senior centers and libraries, The New York Times reports.
The new regulations are designed to curb the prescription drug abuse epidemic, the DEA said. “These new regulations will expand the public’s options to safely and responsibly dispose of unused or unwanted medications,” DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart said in anews release. “The new rules will allow for around-the-clock, simple solutions to this ongoing problem. Now everyone can easily play a part in reducing the availability of these potentially dangerous drugs.”
The regulations will take effect in one month, the article notes. In addition to OxyContin, the rule will include stimulants such as Adderall and depressants such as Ativan. The program will be voluntary for pharmacies. The DEA will require locations accepting drugs to permanently destroy them, but will not specify how they do it.
The “take-back” events removed 4.1 million pounds of prescription drugs from circulation in the past four years, according to the DEA. During that time, about 3.9 billion prescriptions were filled. “They only removed an infinitesimal fraction of the reservoir of unused drugs that are out there,” said Dr. Nathaniel Katz of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, who studies opioid abuse. “It’s like trying to eliminate malaria in Africa by killing a dozen mosquitoes.”
Flushing drugs down the toilet, or throwing out prescriptions in the trash, are discouraged because they could harm the environment.
Global Commission on Drug Policy Says Most Illegal Drugs Should be Decriminalized
September 9th, 2014/
The Global Commission on Drug Policy, largely composed of former world leaders, is calling on governments to decriminalize most illegal drugs, including heroin and cocaine.
In a new report, the group says the international drug-control system is broken, according to The Wall Street Journal. Members of the group include former presidents including Brazil’s Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Mexico’s Ernesto Zedillo and Colombia’s César Gaviria. Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz are also members.
“We have to control drugs, which are out of control,” Cardoso told the newspaper. “Some lethal drugs have to be prohibited…but the guiding principle has to be to guarantee the health and safety of people.”
According to the report, a law-enforcement approach that criminalizes people who use drugs has led to violence, instability and corruption. Instead, governments should focus their efforts on harm reduction, an approach that treats drug use as a public health and social issue, the report said. Any regulatory system for drugs should not allow sales to minors, the group stated. The most dangerous forms of drugs, including crack cocaine and the flesh-eating drug “krokodil,” should continue to be banned, they said.
Law enforcement should shift its focus from people who use drugs to violent drug gangs, according to the group. “The main thrust of [drug] law now is prohibition with violence, which does no good to either people’s health or security,” Cardoso said. “The concept now is that there has to be regulation with the objective of maintaining the health and security of people and respecting human rights.”
Between 60,000 and 100,000 people have died or disappeared in drug violence in Mexico since former President Felipe Calderón declared war on drugs in 2006, according to the report.
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