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www.recoverywalks.org                    Thank You  Once More to  Last Year's Sponsors Among them were:                SAVE THE DATE! Saturday, September 19, 2015 PRO-ACT Recovery Walks! 2015         Planning for our 14th Annual Recovery Walk in downtown Philadelphia is underway. In each of the past few years, you have helped us to build the Walk--last year 23,000 supporters celebrated RECOVERY at Penn's Landing. Let's top that this year! We know we can do itwith your help!  EVERYTHING YOU NEED NOW  is at   www.recoverywalks.org   Register for the Walk--it's free Sign up for the Honor Guard Become a Team Captain Learn the benefits of sponsoring the Walk Sign up as a Walk Sponsor Download a Team Captains Kit Donate to the Walk Volunteer for a committee or for Walk Day (Or call John at 215-923-1661) Ask Marita how to get a 10% discount  on Sponsorship NATIONAL RECOVERY MONTH IS SEPTEMBER!          While we're celebrating our 14th Annual Recovery Walk, we're also celebrating SAMHSA's National Recovery Month.         Recovery Month promotes the societal benefits of prevention, treatment, and recovery for mental and/or substance use disorders. The 2015 Recovery Month theme,"Join the Voices for Recovery: Visible, Vocal, Valuable,"highlights the value of peer support by educating, mentoring and helping others.                  The theme invites individuals in recovery and their support systems to be catalysts and active change-agents in communities, and in civic and advocacy engagements. It encourages individuals to start conversations about the prevention, treatment and recovery of behavioral health conditions at earlier stages of life. PRO-ACT Recovery Walks!  Is a Fundraiser for PRO-ACT and The Council         The Recovery Walk has several goals: to show that recovery is real--it's happening NOW; so that the joyful solidarity of 23,000 or more people can provide hope to others; to help reduce the stigma of the disease of addiction; to educate the media; to honor people and organizations that provide services for the recovery community; and to honor those who have not survived this disease.         Hand in hand with those goals, the Walk is a fundraiser so that PRO-ACT can continue to expand our services to the growing number of individuals and families who wish to access and sustain long-term recovery. We need your financial support to do that. Please DONATE by clicking here

Founder of Silk Road, Website That Sold Drugs, Convicted

/BY JOIN TOGETHER STAFF

February 5th, 2015/

Ross W. Ulbricht, the man who founded Silk Road, was convicted this week on seven federal charges. Silk Road sold illegal drugs including heroin, cocaine and LSD, The New York Times reports.

Prosecutors called Ulbricht a “digital kingpin.” Silk Road generated revenues of more than $213 million from January 2011 to October 2013, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Ulbricht.

Federal prosecutor Serrin Turner said in a closing argument that the website “lowered the barriers to drug dealing by enabling drug dealers to reach customers online they could have never met on the street.”

Four of the convictions, including distributing narcotics on the Internet and engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, carry potential life sentences, the article notes. Ulbricht will be sentenced May 15.

Last month, a drug dealer testifying at the trial said he sold up to 600 small bags of heroin a day on the site. Michael Duch said he used most of the money to support his $2,000-to-$3,000-a-week heroin addiction.

Silk Road could only be accessed by using encryption software called Tor, which shields computers’ IP addresses, allowing people to make purchases anonymously. The website did not use credit cards, instead relying on “Bitcoins,” an untraceable digital currency that is available through online currency exchange services.

Last month, federal agents arrested a man who told them he was a top assistant to the operator of Silk Road 2.0. The site allowed anonymous users to buy and sell illegal drugs, weapons and other illegal items. Silk Road 2.0 emerged as a copycat site a month after Ulbricht was arrested.