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Thursday, July 10, 2014
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
July 9 Ch 17 v 6 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALMS
I am praying to you because I know you will answer, O God.
Bend down and listen as I pray.
STEP 2 - - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity .
Just keep praying your deliverance will come . My mother prayed for thirty two years for me too find God . I prayed once and a year later , He showed up and delivered me out of addiction so keep asking Him .He will set you free and take the desire which drives us too use .
Psalms 107 : 6 - Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, [and] he delivered them out of their distresses.
By Joseph Dickerson
Florida Succeeds in Lowering Opioid Prescribing, Overdose Deaths: Report
July 8th, 2014/
Policy changes in Florida have led to a drop in opioid prescriptions, according to a new government report. Prescription rates for opioids remain high in some states, including Alabama, West Virginia and Tennessee.
Health care providers in the United States wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioids in 2012, USA Today reports. Prescribing rates for drugs including OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet vary widely by state. In Alabama, providers wrote 143 prescriptions for every 100 residents, compared with 52 prescriptions per 100 residents in Hawaii. The findings come from a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
New York and California also reported low rates of opioid prescribing, the article notes.
Florida, which was known for its proliferation of “pill mills,” closed about 250 pain clinics in 2013. The number of high-volume oxycodone dispensing prescribers dropped from 98 in 2010 to none in 2013, the CDC reported. After the state instituted new laws to regulate pain clinics and implemented a new prescription monitoring program, opioid overdose deaths decreased 27 percent between 2010 and 2012.
Preliminary data from the first half of 2013 indicate overdose deaths from oxycodone and the anti-anxiety drug alprazolam (sold as Xanax) continued to decrease. “These changes might represent the first documented substantial decline in drug overdose mortality in any state during the past 10 years,” the report noted.
“Overdoses from opioid narcotics are a serious problem across the country and we know opioid overdoses tend to be highest where opioids get the highest use,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden. He says the medications “can be an important tool for doctors to use … but they are not the answer every time someone has pain.”
The CDC urged states to consider ways to increase the use of prescription drug monitoring programs, and to institute laws and regulations relating to pain clinics to reduce prescribing practices that are risky to patients.
CVS Stores in West Virginia Will Not Sell Single-Ingredient Pseudoephedrine Products
July 8th, 2014/
CVS Caremark will no longer sell single-ingredient pseudoephedrine products in West Virginia, The Wall Street Journal reports. Pseudoephedrine is a popular source of chemicals used in methamphetamine labs, which have proliferated in the state.
Single-ingredient pseudoephedrine is often sold under the brand name Sudafed, the article notes. In addition to West Virginia stores, CVS will also stop selling the product in 40 stores within 15 miles of the state border in Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The drugstore chain has reduced the amount of pseudoephedrine products that can be bought by a single person in a year, to half the limit currently allowed under West Virginia law. CVS will continue to sell a formulation of pseudoephedrine that is resistant to the type of tampering often used by meth labs.
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who has urged pharmacy companies to ban single-ingredient pseudoephedrine products, said, “Substance abuse has ravaged West Virginia, and the local production and abuse of methamphetamine has only added to the epidemic. It is past time that we take strong action to stop this cycle of abuse.”
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A new study says 10% of deaths for people between 20 and 64 is alcohol related. Most of these deaths are male and a direct result of binge drinking. Alcohol related deaths include chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, stroke and cancer, as well as acute causes such as accidents, homicides and suicides. Scientists believe that the "1-in-10 number" is almost certainly an underestimate because several well known alcohol-related diseases are not included in this study. Alcohol is the 4th largest cause of preventable deaths behind smoking, poor nutrition and lack of exercise. For more information and to read the CDC's report, visit 
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
JULY 8 TWELVE STEPPING WITH POWER IN THE PROVERB
For whoever finds me finds life,
All those who hate me love death. But those who miss me injure themselves . All who hate me love death .
STEP 2 - Came to believe that God ( Jesus ) could restore us to sanity !
Addiction is your master and you are the slave not free to live your life the way it is meant to be lived .When your physical life ends it does not mean its over . Living a life full of addiction and sin will separate you from the love God has for you now and when you cross over . Get it right now with God you think life is terrible now . Gods Big Book teaches we will be separated and put into prisons of darkness until the judgement . Yes this a lot and I struggle with understanding it . I figured why take chances and the Proverb was right , through the steps I found God and I do have life , a sober life and that was impossible in my own strength .
Isaiah 59 -1 -2
Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Good Afternoon!
If you haven’t already, here is your reminder to please register for this month’s Expanding Your Recovery Toolkit program coming up on:
Tuesday, July 15th
7:00 – 8:30pm
At The Council Office, Unit 12
Please pass along the attached flyer to anyone you feel would benefit from this program. As always, you must register yourself or your group ahead so that we may be prepared with enough materials and food/beverages. If you have any questions, please let me know!
THANK YOU!
Rick Petrolawicz
CRS/ Volunteer Coordinator
The Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, Inc/ PRO-ACT
Central Bucks Recovery Resource Center
252 W. Swamp Road, Bailiwick Office Campus, Unit 12
Doylestown, PA 18901
Phone: (215) 345-6644 ext 3151
Fax: (215) 348-3377
24 Hour Information Line: (800)221-6333
Saturday, July 5, 2014
JULY 5 v 23 TWELVE STEPPING WITH POWER IN THE PROVERB
He shall die for lack of instruction,
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
STEP 4 Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
They say we have come into this world with nothing well that's not true ! There is one thing we have here even if we are unfortunate enough too not have parents. We can choose too hate this life or love it . God our maker has given us an instruction manual ,it has been here since the beginning of everything . We need to pick it up ,it addresses everything in our lives including how too get free from addiction . The Proverb cannot get any clearer ! During your Twelve step march to freedom you will discover the truth about yourself .The instruction manual (Bible) will pull you from the pit , dust you off , and put you on solid ground and help you walk a clean and sober path into your God given purpose for your life . Stop living confused , sad , addicted settling to live your life way below your potential . You deserve so much more the instruction manual says so !
Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
They say we have come into this world with nothing well that's not true ! There is one thing we have here even if we are unfortunate enough too not have parents. We can choose too hate this life or love it . God our maker has given us an instruction manual ,it has been here since the beginning of everything . We need to pick it up ,it addresses everything in our lives including how too get free from addiction . The Proverb cannot get any clearer ! During your Twelve step march to freedom you will discover the truth about yourself .The instruction manual (Bible) will pull you from the pit , dust you off , and put you on solid ground and help you walk a clean and sober path into your God given purpose for your life . Stop living confused , sad , addicted settling to live your life way below your potential . You deserve so much more the instruction manual says so !
Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
4.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. - See more
at:
http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/12-steps-of-alcoholics-anonymous.php#sthash.QBE7lKIo.dpuf
4.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. - See more
at:
http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/12-steps-of-alcoholics-anonymous.php#sthash.QBE7lKIo.dpuf
4.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. - See more
at:
http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/recovery/12-steps-of-alcoholics-anonymous.php#sthash.QBE7lKIo.dpuf
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