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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
Judge’s Decision Keeps Marijuana on List of Schedule I Drugs
April 16th, 2015/
A ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller keeps marijuana on the list of Schedule I drugs, alongside LSD and heroin. Schedule I drugs are substances classified as having no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
Judge Mueller had agreed to consider marijuana’s drug classification under the 1970 Controlled Substance Act. She held a five-day fact-finding hearing in late 2014. Her decision to hold the hearing was in response to a pretrial defense motion in a federal case against alleged marijuana growers.
The defendants are accused of conspiring to grow more than 1,000 marijuana plants in a national forest. Judge Mueller will continue to preside over the case, The New York Timesreports.
Lawyers for the defendants say the federal marijuana law violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. They argue the government enforces marijuana law unevenly by permitting marijuana to be distributed in states where it is legal, while cracking down in states where it is illegal.
In her ruling, Judge Mueller said any adjustments to the law should be made by Congress.
Florida Drug Monitoring Program Leads to 25% Drop in Oxycodone Overdoses: Study
April 16th, 2015/
Deaths due to oxycodone overdoses declined 25 percent after Florida implemented its prescription drug monitoring program in 2011, according to a new study. The researchers attribute the drop directly to the program.
Oxycodone-related deaths in Florida increased 118.3 percent from 2007 to 2010, Medical Xpress reports. The rate began to decline in 2010 due to a variety of factors, including the introduction of abuse-deterrent oxycodone formulations, law enforcement crackdowns on “pill mills,” and a Florida law that imposed new penalties for physicians who overprescribe medication.
The prescription drug monitoring program led to an additional 25 percent decrease in oxycodone-related deaths, the University of Florida researchers report in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The program monitors patients’ controlled substance prescriptions, and provides current data on prescribing trends in Florida.
“Forty-nine states have prescription drug monitoring programs of some kind, but this is the first study to demonstrate that one of these programs significantly reduced oxycodone-related deaths,” lead author Chris Delcher, PhD, said in a news release. “Our work fills an urgent need for rigorous evaluation of these programs, so we can see what is working and what could be done better to help save lives and improve patients’ health care.”
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“The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.” -David Icke
“The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgement. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.” -Ellen DeGeneres
“It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself so seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.” -Betty White
“Negativism is an overall feeling, an overall attitude. It is an attitude that can dominate us to the exclusion of all other feelings. It keeps us from being positive about any facet of our lives, and it rules us above any other feelings.” -Jean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., WFS Program Booklet
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Statement #2, “Negative thoughts destroy only myself.”
My first conscious sober act must be to remove negativity from my life.
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This last week has been intense for me, both physically and emotionally. I began the week acknowledging the hard work that I have accomplished and having our kitchen remodeled. The thrill early in the week gave way to an uncomfortable yet welcoming repeat 6 month mammogram and ultrasound. I walked out of the hospital on cloud nine...feeling gloriously happy, relieved and content. I am proud of the way I handled myself. I felt my 4C shining brightly.
Many women have repeat testing done and this was my first adventure into this unknown avenue. When I first received the news last fall that I would need a repeat, my mind immediately went into a familiar spiral of negativity. What would happen next? Was it cancer? When will I know? Why does six months take so long to get here but Christmas come so incredibly fast? STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!!!
In quiet moments with myself, I brought out Statement #2 and I needed it. For years and years I had traveled the route of panic and pressure and I was not going to let this negativity flourish. I armed myself with positivity and I did not allow myself to dwell on something I had no answer to. Whenever commercials for anything cancer-related appeared on TV, I turned my mind to OFF and affirmed myself. I knew nothing, so I was not going to worry. I would worry when I had a reason to worry. Anytime a stressful thought jumped in, I turned to my strength and encouraged myself. Each time I felt worked up, I worked in healthy and healing thoughts.
As the time came closer to my six month follow-up, I felt agitated and uneasy. I brought out Statement #12 and decided that no matter what was going to happen, I would be able to move through it. After all, I am a 4C woman!
WFS provides a guide for any situation, experience or feeling. Repeat mammogram? Statement #2. Feeling doubtful? Statement #12. Whatever I need I can find it, feel it, keep or release it. Hugzzz, Karen
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Hi 4C Women, I’ve had a lot of practice with conquering negative thinking since the beginning of the year. I kept trying to turn around the negative thoughts every time I went to the doctor, filled another prescription, experienced physical pain or thought about my daughter and her severe health problems. If it wasn’t for the years of practicing the WFS statements, I might have been stuck in my bed with the covers over my head for a very long time. Trust me, there were and are days when I cry because I also believe in expressing my feelings rather than holding them in. What I know is that WFS has taught me that negative thoughts are temporary and are an honest response to a person or situation. Being aware of this has been the best lesson. I can have a negative thought but I don’t have to live in it until I am either triggered or beat down for days. That brings me to having negative thoughts about those who have harmed or hurt me - the person response. That might be the most difficult to overcome. I know forgiveness is the key and it is the one that requires a lot of introspection, continuous hard work and remembering that this kind of negativity certainly does harm me and not the person I’m pretty angry with, even if I feel it is justified. I fluctuate between being assertive and forgiving. I feel if I am assertive, then I protect myself from letting the hurtful words be a personal attack and am grateful that I am not that angry person. Other times, I make a decision that I need to forgive that person so I can let it go. Perhaps it also has a lot to do with the relationship. It might be easier to forgive an acquaintance than a loved one. The most important thing for me is that if I would allow negative thoughts to linger too long, I know they would take me to a dark place where I would be living in the past with all its regrets and pain. This is why I love Statement 2 and the knowledge that negative thoughts destroy only myself. Now why would I want to do that? –Dee
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Thank you, Karen and Dee, for your words of courage and strength to overcome those negative thoughts! ~Becky Fenner, WFS Director
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Friday, April 17, 2015
April 17 CHP 16 v 4 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALMS
Troubles multiply for those who chase after other gods. I will not partake in their sacrifices of blood or even speak the names of their gods.
(GODS BIG BOOK )
STEP 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
When folks say a God of our understanding , that does not mean of your creation. So many are deceived and pursue the wrong higher power and then they wonder why their lives are still empty and miserable. There is but one GOD ! He is the creator of all there is and was and that includes you . Don ' t listen to what people in the rooms are trying to tell you about there false gods. Listen to your heart and buy His book (GODS BIG BOOK)Life Recovery Bible .He is available 24/7 all you have to do is pray and read .
Isaiah 44:66 - Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside me [there is] no God.(GODS BIG BOOK)
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