Providence Ministries Dalton Ga.

Women seeking residential alcohol and drug rehab treatment may be surprised to hear that getting sober is not the hard part… it's staying clean, living in recovery, and healing from a past full of hurts and hang-ups that's the real challenge.

Unfortunately, people suffering from addiction often allow their pain, failures, and character defects to define their identity, or how they view themselves and what they in turn base their choices on. Spiritual transformation is at its roots, a process of healing by letting go of the illusion of control, discovering and uprooting the false beliefs that trap people in the addiction cycle, and replacing those lies with God's truth about their identity in Christ.

For this reason we proudly offer intensive in-house Christian faith-based addiction services which were developed to help women safely transition onto the challenging path of long-term recovery... and we offer it all at a cost people can afford, 90 Days for $3,900. That's only $300 per week. We know that the key to long term stand firm recovery is through Christ led spiritual transformation. Fly in to Chattanooga and Still Save!

The Providence Ministries' Women's Program is heavily subsidized by sales from our thrift stores, as well as through the charitable contributions of our donors, sponsorship cost has been reduced to just $3,900 for 90 days, which means you could literally fly in to Chattanooga Tennessee, (we're 20 minutes south in Northern Georgia) to attend our program, and still save money when compared to most other rehabilitation centers. And unlike those other recovery facilities, we are part of a large family of missions where we put Christ first. We are not driven by profits or investors, but rather by a calling to serve him.

What we are offering is an opportunity many people will never have. A chance to give yourself a break and take 90 days in exchange for the rest of your life.  To once and for all put an end to a life you know in your heart cannot continue the way it has. The end of the path of addiction is always prisons, institutions, and death, and the sad truth is that family and loved ones suffer just as much as anyone.

Our program works for those who have suffered enough and want to change for themselves. If you can admit that you have a problem and that you can't fix it alone, then you've already taken the first step. Now we're asking you for just a bit more courage to take the next, and to give us a call at (706)275-0268, and we'll guide you from there.

If you'd like more information about any aspect of our program, please visit the other pages of this site or send us a message from the box below and we'll be happy to return your call. Though we've never met, you are indeed in our prayers and we want you to realize that there is hope and recovery through Jesus and Providence Ministries.

If You're Tired of The Misery of Addiction, and you Are Ready to Find a New Better Way of Life, Click: I'm Ready to Begin the Admissions Process

TUERK CONFERENCE ON ADDICTION TREATMENT

2012 Tuerk ConferenceTuesday, APRIL 17, 2012"INTERVENTIONS IN 2012 ~
CURRENT ADVANCEMENTS"
Laurence Westreich, MD
Joani Gammill, RN, BR1
Judge Mark Farrell

Click here for 2012 Sponsor Form.Click here for 2012 Tuerk Brochure.Click here to register online for Tuerk.

Homelessness & Reentry Lobby Day

SAVE THE DATE!
Homelessness & Reentry Lobby Day

MARCH 1, 2012

Annapolis, Maryland

Join us as we urge legislators to provide increased services to individuals who are experiencing homelessness or are adversely affected by the consequences of a criminal record. 

This daylong event will feature a march to the capitol, rally on Lawyers’ Mall, visits with legislators, informative workshops and more.  Lunch will be provided.

Transportation will be provided for those traveling between Baltimore and Annapolis.  Buses will depart Health Care for the Homeless at 7:30am and return by 3pm.  A detailed agenda for the day will be available soon.  RSVPs are required. 

For more information or to RSVP, contact:

Caryn York / caryn@jotf.org / 443-692-9424 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            443-692-9424      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Adam Schneider / aschneider@hchmd.org / 410-215-8319 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            410-215-8319      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

                                                               

Sponsored by Health Care for the Homeless & Job Opportunities Task Force

Opioid Overdose Antidote Could Have Prevented Many Deaths: CDC

By Join Together Staff | February 17, 2012 | 4 Comments | Filed in Drugs &Treatment

Widely distributing the opioid overdose antidote naloxone, and training people in how to use it, could save many lives, suggests a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.

Naloxone safely reverses the potentially fatal side effects of an opioid overdose, Time reports. It has successfully reversed more than 10,000 drug overdoses since 1996, according to the CDC report. The article notes naloxone is not effective in treating drug overdoses that do not involve opioids.

The medication is available by prescription only under the brand name Narcan. Only 17 states and the District of Columbia have programs to distribute naloxone in the community, the article states. The programs train people to identify signs of an overdose and provide naloxone to people who use drugs and their loved ones.

The CDC survey of 48 programs that distributed naloxone found the medication was given to about 53,000 people, who were trained in recognizing and treating an overdose. The programs received reports of 10,171 overdose reversals.

“To address the substantial increases in opioid-related drug overdose deaths, public health agencies could consider comprehensive measures that include teaching laypersons how to respond to overdoses and administer naloxone to those in need,” the researchers wrote.

Our Masters Camp Pikeville TN.

Christian Drug Rehab Centers & Christian Drug Alcohol Treatment Program Alternative

90 Days for $3,900 | Our Masters Camp | 423-447-2340 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            423-447-2340      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

"We want you to know that recovery...

is not a by-product of cost."

Our men's residential Christian alcohol and drug rehab intensive treatment and rehabilitation alternative is one of the most value packed recovery centers in the United States. We have helped clients recovering from addiction from nearly every state in the nation, and we can help you too. Our program is so inexpensive that even those outside of a reasonable driving distance can easily fly into Chattanooga and still pay less. Watch this short video to learn how Our Master's Camp saves men from the grip of addiction.

Because we are a 501(c)3 non-profit faith based Christian ministry, we're able to subsidize your cost and offer our service at a fraction of what it actually costs to provide our comprehensive Christian care. We have thrift stores, sponsors, and local Christian community members that help us raise funds and donations; a benefit we pass directly to our clients by reducing the fee to just $3,900 for 90 days. Thats less than $308 per week!

Our Master’s Camp is located on 100 acres of land in a remote mountain location of beautiful Tennessee. Our location provides a safe place for clients to gain serenity and peace while discovering God’s intended and perfectly designed plan for their lives. No one aspires to have their goals and dreams swallowed by the deadly and powerful heartbreaking grip of alcohol and drugs. God wants us to grow along spiritual lines, live abundantly, and have serenity and peace. It says in Isaiah 26:3; "You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast because, they trust in you."

Our Christian drug and alcohol recovery program has a time tested rules and agenda process that enables men to straighten out their struggles with addictions to substances such as alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, opiates, barbiturates, marijuana or pot, crystal meth, meth or methamphetamine's, prescription drugs, and pain pills to name a few. If you're ready to take the next step, then please contact our Drug Rehab alternative now.

Our Christian drug rehab program alternative is not only designed to help our clients recognize and alleviate their character defects that manifested as a result of prolonged drug abuse, but more importantly, those that led them to drug and alcohol abuse in the first place. Recovery, treatment, and rehabilitation are vital in battling alcohol and drug abuse problems and require a complete lifestyle change...a change in which our unique faith based approach and scenic location lends itself too perfectly.

About Our Master's Camp Founder Roy Johnson

In 1978, Our Master's Camp founder Roy Johnson realized that no human power could relieve him of his substance abuse nor give him the forgiveness, love, peace, and purpose he needed. Once he trusted God, his life had a dramatic change. He found the peace that Jesus gave him to be so awe inspiring, that he knew it was the only way to truly help the alcoholic or addict that still suffered. The mission he created really works because it identifies and corrects long held "false" belief systems that occur in all who struggle. The Bible is God’s blueprint for our lives and Jesus Christ can heal our brokenness. Jesus Christ changes lives.

If you admit you have a problem and are willing to go to any lengths to fix it, then you are willing to take certain steps. At some of these we balked, but we found there is no easier softer way. We urge you to be fearless and thorough from the very start. High cost beach getaway rehabs guarantee nothing but a painfully large bill. Our Christian alternative to drug and alcohol treatment is cost effective and produces men transformed by the highest power, thus enabling them to find joy, recovery, and peace, living in God's will.

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Legalizing drugs won't prevent abuse By William J. Bennett, CNN Contributor

 Editor's note: William J. Bennett, a CNN contributor, is the author of "The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood." He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H.W. Bush.

(CNN) -- On the evening of Whitney Houston's death, renowned recording artist Tony Bennett told the audience of Clive Davis' Beverly Hills party, "First it was Michael Jackson, then it was Amy Winehouse, and now, the magnificent Whitney Houston. I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs -- so they'll have to get it through a doctor, not to some gangsters who just sell it under the table."

Bennett's idiotic comments were followed closely by the often original, but in this case mistaken, Arianna Huffington.

On Monday morning's edition of "CNN Starting Point With Soledad O'Brien," she agreed with Bennett: "The point I think is absolutely fair -- that the war on drugs has failed, and we are not acknowledging it. We are spending over $50 billion a year fighting a war that has become a war on our own people." First, we do not know the immediate cause of Houston's death. But we do know that she had a long and public struggle with drugs, both legal and illegal. But legalizing drugs and making them more readily available would not have saved her life, or the life of Michael Jackson, or the thousands of other drug-related deaths each year. 

Amy Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning -- a legal, easily available substance.Lest Tony Bennett forget, Michael Jackson died from acute propofol intoxication administered to him by a doctor.

Brittany Murphy died from multiple drug intoxication's (only prescription and over-the-counter medications according to the medical exam) combined with pneumonia.A fatal combination of painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-depressants -- all legal prescription drugs -- killed Heath Ledger. And Anna Nicole Smith overdosed on prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

All these drugs are legal and prescribed by doctors. Contrary to what Tony Bennett and other legalizers would like to think, legalization does not prevent the abuse and misuse of drugs. In fact, it accelerates it.

According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy,prescription drug abuse is the nation's fastest-growing drug problem. In 2007, there were 28,000 deaths from prescription drug overdoses. This is five times higher than the number in 1990. More people die in America every year from prescription drug abuse (i.e., legal and available drugs) than from heroin and cocaine combined.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of deaths from prescription narcotics increased fourfold over the past 10 years. This coincided with a fourfold increase in the number of prescriptions written for powerful painkillers. Legalization increases supply and when you increase supply, you increase the use and misuse of deadly drugs.

As for Bennett's envy of Amsterdam, he should realize that its legalization experiment has backfired. With the legalization of marijuana came an increase in drug addictions and dependency followed by illegal drug trafficking, human trafficking and crime. After a rapid influx of organized crime, the Netherlands has announced that it will ban foreigners from the country's pot shops starting in 2013.

Drug decriminalization in Portugal has also been a failure.

As of 2007, Portugal was still the country with the most cases of injected drug related AIDS, and it was the only European country to show a significant increase in homicides from 2001 to 2006.

"With 219 deaths by drug 'overdose' a year, Portugal has one of the worst records, reporting more than one death every two days. Along with Greece, Austria and Finland, Portugal is one of the countries that recorded an increase in drug overdose by over 30% in 2005," according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

Bennett and Huffington's misguided solutions would result in more tragic deaths like Houston's. Illicit drugs are not harmful because they are illegal, they are illegal precisely because they are harmful. It is my hope that in the national dialogue surrounding Houston's death, our country's loudest voices would speak honestly and seriously about the drug problems in America.

In the 1980s and '90s, the U.S. beat back the cocaine and heroine epidemics, not by legalization or decriminalization, but by tough law enforcement, strong prevention and education programs and public outcry. You could hardly watch TV without seeing the Partnership For a Drug-Free America's famous "This is your brain on drugs" advertisements. If we are to be successful today, we must reignite that same national effort.

Whitney Houston's mother, Cissy Houston, understood the seriousness of drug abuse. In a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Houston recalled how her mother showed up one day at her doorstep with sheriff's officers and a court order in a drug intervention.

"(My mother) says, 'I have a court (injunction) here,' " Houston said. "Either you do it my way, or we're just not going to do this at all. We are both going to go on TV, and you're going to retire.'"

If more Americans, celebrities in particular, spoke and acted like Cissy Houston, rather than like Bennett or Huffington, fewer Americans would be victims to drug addiction.