May 19 CHP 107 v 4 v 5 v 6 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALM

Some wandered in the wilderness , lost and homeless.

Hungry and thirsty,they nearly died.

"Lord, help !" they cried in their trouble,

and He rescued them from their distress.

(GODS BIG BOOK)

STEP 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

YOUR NOT WAITING ON GOD ! GODS WAITING ON YOU !

Psalm 40:1-7

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.(GODS BIG BOOK)By Joseph Dickerson

CVS Agrees to Pay $22 Million to Resolve Allegations on Painkillers

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May 14th, 2015/

CVS Health Corp has agreed to pay $22 million to resolve a federal investigation into whether two of its pharmacies in Florida sold oxycodone pills that were not prescribed for legitimate medical purposes, Reuters reports.

In September 2012 the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revoked the licenses to dispense controlled substances for two CVS pharmacies in Florida, after accusing them of dispensing excessive amounts of oxycodone.

Earlier that year, the DEA said the two pharmacies were “filling prescriptions far in excess of the legitimate needs of its customers.” While the average pharmacy in the United States in 2011 ordered approximately 69,000 oxycodone dosage units, these two pharmacies, located about 5.5 miles apart, together ordered more than three million dosage units during the same year, according to the DEA.

According to a DEA news release, “CVS acknowledged that its retail pharmacies had a responsibility to dispense only those prescriptions that were issued based on legitimate medical need. CVS further acknowledged that certain of its retail stores dispensed certain controlled substances in a manner not fully consistent with their compliance obligations under the Controlled Substances Act and the related regulations.”

The DEA said the settlement caps off an investigation that began as part of agency’s crackdown on pill mills in Florida.

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Some of us sought comfort in a drink after the kids were in bed. Some of us used just to get through the day. Some of us only stopped using due to pregnancy and some of us never stopped at all. We live our lives at 100mph and stopping anything seems impossible. "Lines in the Sand" Every addict engages in ongoing negotiations with self. We establish lines we won't cross in order to derive a sense of security. There's a point in the progression of addiction in which we've crossed too many of them. Yet even when self-preservation is conspicuously absent, we often maintain a strong awareness and protectiveness of our children. We're told that we have to get sober for ourselves and it's unimaginable. I'm often asked, "Is it okay to do it for my kids?" Hell yes, it is! There's no bad reason to get clean and sober. We're willing to go through hell for our kids. The turning point in recovery comes for many of us when we're ready to get out of hell for our kids. Overcoming Stigma & Shame Of all the judgments a person fears and anticipates in seeking help for addiction, admitting that our children are affected is the greatest. We expect to be condemned for what we see as our weakness. Our isolation and fears are compounded by what we project. Talk to People Who Get It There are countless reasons why I recommend folks to 12-step programs. First and foremost, I know that no one who truly understands addiction will judge a person for where their disease has taken them. I understand it's intimidating to talk with folks who have attained long-term sobriety, but I hasten to point out that they only got there because some good folks helped them out of their wreckage. AA and NA tend to be the best starting points. They're free, widely available, and filled with folks on similar journeys. I've never met folks who are more genuine and generous with their time. 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Fewer New Mothers Given Codeine After Warning of Overdose Risk From Breastfeeding

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May 13th, 2015/

A health warning about the painkiller codeine being transmitted to babies through breast milk has led to a decline in the number of new mothers prescribed the drug, HealthDayreports. There is a rare but potential risk that breastfeeding babies can overdose from codeine if their mothers take the drug.

“The trend is going in the direction we want it,” said lead researcher Kate Smolina of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. She noted a significant number of women continue to be prescribed codeine. “Prescriptions are still too high,” she said. “We’d like to see it closer to zero.”

The findings are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

In 2006, doctors reported an infant whose mother had been using codeine died of a morphine overdose. The body converts codeine to morphine to relieve pain, the article notes. The mother was found to have a gene variant that made her body metabolize codeine extremely quickly, which led to very high levels of morphine in her breast milk.

The gene variant is found in 1 to 10 percent of most ethnic groups. Since women are unlikely to know if they have this variant, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a health warning in 2007 advising doctors to prescribe codeine cautiously to breastfeeding women. Canadian health officials issued a similar warning a year later.

The new study looked at codeine prescriptions for all women who gave birth in British Columbia between 2002 and 2011. In the years before the FDA warning, 17 percent of new mothers filled a codeine prescription in the six months after they gave birth. By the end of 2011, that number declined to 9 percent.