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Monday, December 22, 2014
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.
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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
PRO-ACT… Ambassadors for Recovery!
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Friday, December 19, 2014
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
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
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.”
Keep Up Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse, Senators Urge
December 18th, 2014/
A group of senators working to reduce the toll of prescription drug abuse sent letters to government officials and health groups this week, urging them to continue fighting what they called a national epidemic.
The bipartisan group of senators who wrote the letters are members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, The Hill reports. The senators called for increased public education on the issue, as well as training of law enforcement officials.
“With our shared goal of preventing and reducing prescription drug abuse in this country — a crisis that demands continued action, we expect that your activities in this area will continue, and we stand ready to assist you,” the senators wrote.
The senators wrote to officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Governors Association, the National Association of City and County Health Officials and other health advocacy groups.
They noted prescription drug overdose death rates have more than tripled in the United States since 1990.
In a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, the senators encouraged her agency to continue evaluating prescription drug monitoring programs, which they called “an important tool in preventing and detecting abuse.” They also asked HHS to provide additional guidance on the standards to achieve labeling of abuse-deterrent formulation drugs.
Many Parents Know When Their Teens are Hosting Parties With Alcohol: Study
December 16th, 2014/
A new study finds that when teens host parties where alcohol is available, their parents are often aware of the underage drinking.
The study, published in the Journal of Primary Prevention, included 1,100 teens in Northern California. Lead researcher Bettina Friese of the Prevention Research Center in Oakland found 39 percent of teens hosted parties with alcohol. Seventy percent of these teens said their parents knew there was drinking going on, and an additional 24 percent said their parents probably knew.
In a previous study published in the Journal of Drug Education, Friese found parents have a variety of reasons for allowing underage drinking, NPR reports. They say they want to pass on knowledge about drinking responsibly and appreciating alcohol. They may feel pressure from other adults to let their teen drink. Some say they are concerned that forbidding underage drinking would harm their relationship with their teen and potentially lead to drunk driving.
Cities and communities around the country have passed some sort of social host law, which holds adults responsible for any underage drinking that occurs on their property.
In Ventura County, California, a person can be fined $1,000 if they are 21 or older and host a party where alcohol is available to minors. If police are called to the same location twice in one year, the fine doubles to $2,000. The parents are also charged for the cost of city services if the fire department or other emergency services are called. Underage drinking has decreased in the county since the law was passed six years ago, the article notes.
Another recent study found teenagers are less likely to drink at parties if their community has strong social hosting laws. The researchers looked at 50 communities in California, half of which had social hosting laws. Teens were less likely to say they drank at parties if they lived in communities with especially strong social hosting laws.
More States Considering Ban on Powdered Alcohol
December 16th, 2014/
Lawmakers in a growing number of states are considering banning powdered alcohol, a product that has not yet arrived in stores, according to the Associated Press.
Alaska, Delaware, Louisiana, South Carolina and Vermont already have banned powdered alcohol, also known as “Palcohol.” Minnesota, Ohio, New York and Colorado also are considering bans, the article notes.
Critics say Palcohol could increase underage drinking. It is marketed as an ounce of rum or vodka in powdered form, which is mixed with water. Lipsmark, which owns Palcohol, says each serving is the equivalent of a shot of liquor.
“I think being proactive and jumping out in front of the problem is probably the right thing to do,” said Chris Johnson, Executive Director of the County Sheriffs of Colorado. “It really doesn’t have any place in our society, powered alcohol. We have enough problems with the liquid kind.”
Mark Phillips, who created Palcohol, says in a video on the product’s website that it would be sold only at liquor stores to people who are at least 21 years old. The company says the product will not be available in stores until this coming spring at the earliest. It must first receive labeling approval from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
Earlier this year, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer of New York urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prevent federal approval of Palcohol. He said it could become “the Kool-Aid of teen binge drinking.” He asked the FDA to investigate the potential harmful effects of the product.
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