December 22 Chp 18 v 27 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALMS

You rescue the humble ,but you humiliate the proud .

STEP 6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Proud - having or showing a high or excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance.

What can I say about this verse .I think it is right to the point and simple ! Humility leads to sobriety , pride leads to constant conflict and self medicating . Why must everyone argue with me , I can control this ,I know how to get clean .Does that sound familiar ,well if it does then you got a problem with pride and God cant help you as long as you think you got this. Nine out of ten times you aint got squat and as long as you think no one can tell you and you got this figured out , you will remain addicted , miserable , and always angry . The steps are the keys to humility and gratitude find those and God will find you .

Isaiah 2:11-12 The proud look of man will be abased And the loftiness of man will be humbled, And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. For the LORD of hosts will have a day of reckoning Against everyone who is proud and lofty And against everyone who is lifted up, That he may be abased. 

By Joseph Dickerson

Best of the Week: December 13–19

COMING UP IN THE FIX// Death Row Drugs * Sexiest Drug Smugglers * Anxiety *Uncrazy Holidays * Pro Voices * Internet Commenters * Shame * Happy Holidays! *PLUS: Other incisive articles

	TREATING WOMEN// What’s Gender Got To Do With It? About one-third of alcoholics in the United States are women. But despite having differences in the causes and symptoms of alcoholism, men and women receive the same treatment. Why? By Regina Walker
	PROFESSIONAL VOICES// 'Twas the Night Before Detox A clinician spends the holidays wondering: How much do we really know about what our patients are doing? By Dr. Neta Tal
	WILD PEOPLE// I Blame The Parents How Mother Nature kept us alive by teaching us to love booze. By Neville Elder
	TREATMENT ADVICE// Cut the Stigma “The shame and secrecy that shroud this disease are just as deadly as the disease itself.” - Kristen Johnston By Jeanene Swanson
	TEENS// Adolescence Interrupted The unregulated, abusive war on troubled teens. By Dawn Roberts

 

BEST OF THE QUICK FIX Study Shows Teen Substance Use Declined in 2014 Alcohol and Energy Drinks May Lead to More Drunk Driving Parents of Overdose Victim Want Leniency for Man Who Supplied Heroin

Social Media Addiction Linked to Substance Abuse, Study Finds Toddler Is First Confirmed Death from Liquid Nicotine DOJ Okays Marijuana Sales on Tribal Lands

COMMENT OF THE WEEK

Against Unregulations This week, Dawn Roberts examined so-called teen addiction treatment centers, which can cause more problems than they solve. Some readers were familiar with such programs:

Posing as schools and rehabs, these unregulated monstrosities are praying on the fears of parents while physically, emotionally and sexually abusing young people in facilities that wouldn’t meet prison standards, let alone standards for schools or hospitals. These programs often look verymuch like boarding schools complete with websites that use words like “dual diagnosis” and “therapy.” Its bad. -medical tyrants

Greetings,

Please see the attached PRO-ACT Philadelphia Recovery Community Center (PRCC) Calendar for January.

Regards,

Sean E. Brinda, MSW, CCDP Diplomate

Senior Peer Services Coordinator

PRO-ACT/Philadelphia Recovery Community Center

1701 W. Lehigh Avenue

Philadelphia, PA 19132

Register for Recovery Walks! 2014 at www.recoverywalks.org

Phone: (215) 223-7700 ext. 105

Cell: (215) 828-6168

Fax: (215) 223-7707

1 (800) 221-6333 Twenty-four Hour Information Line

Email: sbrinda@councilsepa.org

www.proact.org

www.recoverywalks.org

PRO-ACT… Ambassadors for Recovery!

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December 19 Chp 81 v 9 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH IN THE PSALMS

You must never have a foreign god ; you must not bow down before a false god.

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

There is only one Higher power and that is God . He created the world and everything in it . He is mentioned on our money and He formed this nation.  I am not here to argue gods existence or theology . What I am doing is helping the new comer . When you start in the rooms most will tell you your  higher power can be anything you want it to be  , because they do not have the courage to tell you that the God of the bible is the only God for fear of being ridiculed . The problem with that is our God is a jealous God and punishment will come to those who worship other gods. Not making this up to scare you into following" THE GREAT I AM " , just stating facts .Go buy a Tyndale Life Recovery bible ( Gods Big Book ) and read Exodus. Choosing and Following the right God will give you the power , love , and sanity you need to change your life and stay sober for a lifetime. 

Revelation 22:18-19 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book By Joseph Dickerson

Patty McCarthy Metcalf is New Executive Director of Faces & Voices of Recovery

/BY JOIN TOGETHER STAFF

December 16th, 2014/

Faces & Voices of Recovery announced the organization’s new Executive Director is Patty McCarthy Metcalf, MS, a longtime board member.

McCarthy Metcalf comes to Faces & Voices of Recovery from the Center for Social Innovation, where she served as a Deputy Director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy initiative.

Previously, she served for a decade as the Director of Friends of Recovery-Vermont, a statewide recovery community organization promoting the power of long-term recovery to improve the health and quality of life of Vermonters.

In addition to public policy and education, her work has focused on community mobilizing, peer-based recovery support services and peer workforce development. She has been instrumental in the development of a national accreditation for recovery community organizations and in the development of peer support standards.

McCarthy Metcalf is a woman in long-term recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, since 1989.

Medicare Starts Identifying Doctors Who May Prescribe Too Many Painkillers

/BY JOIN TOGETHER STAFF

December 18th, 2014/

This year Medicare has started examining prescribing data to identify physicians who write large numbers of prescriptions for narcotic painkillers and stimulants. Next year Medicare will be able to kick doctors out of the program if they are found to be prescribing in abusive ways, USA Today reports.

Twelve of Medicare’s top 20 prescribers of drugs such as oxycodone, morphine, fentanyl and Ritalin faced disciplinary actions by their state medical boards or criminal charges related to their medical practices in 2012. These are Schedule 2 drugs, meaning the government classifies them as having a high potential for abuse. One doctor in Huntsville, Alabama, wrote more than 14,000 Schedule 2 prescriptions in 2012. He had his controlled-substances certificate suspended by the state medical board, and surrendered his medical license.

Medicare’s drug program, Medicare Part D, pays for more than one-fourth of prescriptions dispensed in the United States, the article notes. The program covers about 38 million seniors and disabled people.

An analysis by ProPublica found 269 providers wrote at least 3,000 prescriptions for Schedule 2 drugs in 2012. The largest number of these doctors were concentrated in Florida (52), followed by Tennessee (25). In September, Medicare sent letters to 760 physicians who prescribed the most Schedule 2 drugs in their medical specialty and state. The agency also sent information about 71 doctors for possible investigation to the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.

“Simply being an outlier doesn’t establish that you’re doing something wrong,” said Shantanu Agrawal, Director of the Center for Program Integrity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “What we are trying to do is give physicians the ability to assess themselves, given their comparative data.”