Why Use Drugs For Rehabilitation

I went searching for this answer and what I found was amazing. I studied 5 or 6 mayor providers of addiction treatment looking for the reason why they use drugs during the process.

One of the most popular answers was that using drugs makes the withdrawal more comfortable; it’s like wanting to jump in the lake but not wanting to feel the cold or get wet.

Some went on to say that they use drugs to give the user some confidence that they are going to succeed; in other words they are using drugs as a sugar pill (a placebo effect), except that in this case you are taking actual drugs as a substitute. The problem with this approach is that a large percentage of patients leaves with a new addiction, often more expensive and more difficult to withdraw from. Since the patients are not really drug free they fall back into other drugs, often worsening the addiction, which was never dealt with. This individuals end up in a rehab again.

Why have to do a new rehab when it could have been done right in the first place? Why go on crutches when one can go free?

The only acceptable reason for using drugs during a rehab is in the rare cases in which the patient has medical conditions which would imperil his life if not using certain drugs. In any case it is necessary to have a doctor approval before starting in any kind of drug rehab as well as professional supervision during the process.

In my view point the only reason these quacks use drugs is because they have been duped by their profession. I don’t think they do it out of malice; however they make good money out of this profession, which justifies them to keep doing it.

Why do I say that the average Psychiatrist, Psychologist and health practitioner has been duped into using drugs? Well, right here I’m opening a can of worms—read on!

The general heath practices were infiltrated as far back as 1920’s thanks to Wundt “the father of modern Psychology.” From here came the “Art of Brainwashing,” formalized in the 1930’s in Russia as part of Psychopolitics, the techniques and tactics of communist brainwashing. This manual clearly explains how to infiltrate into all activities, but specially recommended infiltrating any mental health activity. Their main agents became the psychologist and psychiatrist as all their teachers and text books came from the same source.

The above is explained in the following paragraph taken from Brainwashing: A Synthesis of The Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics.
“To achieve these goals the psychopolitician must crush every “homegrown” variety of mental healing in America. Actual teachings of James, Eddy, and Pentecostal Bible faith healers amongst your misguided people must be swept aside. They must be discredited, defamed, arrested, stamped upon even by their own government until there is no credit in them and only Communist-oriented “healing” remains. You must work until every teacher of psychology unknowingly or knowingly teaches only Communist doctrine under the guise of “psychology.” You must labor until every doctor and psychiatrist is either a psycho-politician or an unwitting assistant to our aims.”

If one understood the Brainwashing manual and concluded that its advice has actually been achieved in present time and also by knowing that the psychiatrist and psychologist are direct academic descendants of the Russian and German counterparts, then we know what to expect from them. Psychiatrists have the greatest rate of suicide among other professions, in addition we can see the amount of deaths of their patients, either by suicide, overdose or rapid health deterioration after they have been seen by a psych.

If you look at the statistics it is the professional drug-free programs which have the greatest success. But you make your own conclusions.

Drugs, a Brave New World or a Coward

Do you remember that book by Aldous Huxley called Brave New World? In this book (1936) Aldows presents an incoherent, modern monotone future society in which in-vitro birth technology is how the population reproduces. This society has 5 castes, which are sleep programmed into a mold of behavior (reminds me of a recent movie, The Island). A drug called Soma, a hallucinogen, is encouraged to vacation from yourself. The word family, marriage and natural birth are dirty words.

This has been one of my favorite books despite its dystopian nature (dystopian: an imaginary dehumanized and often ghastly place). Even if fiction this book seems to be a warning of what could be possible if One World Government becomes true and education and social morals keep the downtrend.

Will Obama’s selection of Chief Kerlikowske of the Seattle Police Department as the drug czar help to curb drug use and distribution? We’ll see, I hope so. However it seems that Chief Kerlikowske is in favor of intervention, treatment and a reduction of problems drug use can cause, a tactic known as harm reduction. This approach does not fix the problem, it is just a form of non confront like wearing blinders and extend the problem.

There has to be a policy of antidrug production and distribution in addition of those of prevention, rehabilitation and education. There is no room in the New World of the future for drugs. The society has to be awaken from the dream that a happy future for all is compatible with mind altering drugs, psych drugs or any kind of mood altering drug. Drugs are just a way to avoid facing the real world.

Drugs are “the wool that has been placed before your eyes to prevent you from seeing the truth.” I think this is what Morpheus tells Neo in the Matrix, however this is true for me. I have been there, done that and recovered thanks to a famous addiction treatment program. The point is that drugs are just a substitute, a crutch to hide the boredom, pain and fear of living.

Maybe one day I’ll write a book named A Coward New World to further expose the ills and dangers of a future zombie society, controlled with drugs, hypnotism, programming and the mass media; sound familiar? Well, this is the objective of Communism. Communism’s main tool is brainwashing as explained in their manual : A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics and the objective is a docile society which can be easily controled under a One World Government–Communism.

What are you going to do about it? That’s what I would like to know.

Education, education & education

If you have been following my posts you know that I have reached the conclusion that education is the number one tool in the elimination of drugs and drug addiction. Education has to start with parents, followed up at school and then reinforced at school, work and government with no-tolerance policies.

The fallen should first be required to do a full rehabilitation program and the reincidence is penalized in addition of doing a second rehab program that includes reparations doing social work while learning a new trade or improving an existing skill.

The message of no-drugs has to be reinforced at all levels of society in order to work otherwise there would be conflicting messages being delivered to the kids. For example if kids listen to rap that glorifies drugs and thugs without analyzing the meaning of the words. Or, watching movies that glorify sex, drugs and amorality without any restriction or guidance–which is lunacy. This is what has happened in actuality.

A society let run ‘free’ is just lunacy; freedom has been mistaken with do-what-ever-you-want regardless of the consequences. A decadent society is the result. Few have the guts to tell another that their rights are being violated in the rampage of the rape and plunder of the uneducated masses in the name of freedom.

This extends to politics; a large number of people think that Liberal means freedom without check. No responsibility whatsoever for what others are doing because “it is their right.” In other words no accountability. You can do whatever you want, just don’t f*** with me is the current attitude. That is the result of the modern psychiatry based no-morals, no-religion, no-right-or-wrong education.

So in conclusion one has to participate at home at work, school  and at a social level to diligently educate others about drugs and morals and about education itself because we are not doing enough yet. We have to toughen ourselves and say something when someone is acting wrong, amorally or doing drugs. We have to raise the society’s standards.

I found a little booklet that could be downloaded and used in school, church, work place or passed to friends that I found very clear and educative in all these matters and that in addition is not religious, its name is The Way to Happiness. I sincerely recommend it.

Note: until now I had not placed links in my blog but I needed some help in this subject, some more precise advice than the one that I could provide. I found this little book very valuable. I hope you like it too.

Drug Eradication-Are There Any Other Options?

I agree with the last commentator in my last post Drug Elimination Campaign in that there should be a de-glamorization of drugs. This should be a whole society (government included) activity, and this does not exclude Hollywood films or any other media including music, rap for example.

In a recent survey there was a majority of adults that consider that the morals in society were decreasing at an alarming pace. I remember as a kid that some of the things that are now commonplace were not permitted or tolerated. Decadence seems the word of the day.

Now days there are drugs at work, pornography (California porn industry makes more than $4 billion), violence, adultery, child abuse, slavery–yes, slavery is real, check the Anti-Slavery League–elderly abuse, gangs everywhere, international mafias, declining school scores and learning, corruption in the government–see recent examples of the Democrat affiliation or the other side too. I could run out of space in this blog just to expand on each of these categories.

So what are our options? Team work is the only way to go, and pronto, because time is passing fast. If we just focus in education as a solution to all our problems with drugs then we are not moving fast enough because the drug pushers are going to keep doing the same but harder.

If you read my last post I pointed to 3 areas of attack on drugs–Elimination, Prevention and Education, and Rehabilitation–which have to be done concurrently. I don’t  believe in legalization because it is an ineffective,  namby pamby approach because it is just looking to the other side as it is not solving the problem but just temporizing.

Drug legalization just keeps the drugs present but with a change 0f dealers, the government and or its affiliates will control them–still an industry of decadence. …new boss same as the old boss… (The Who)

We need a real change, not just an election slogan. We can so it if we all work together.

NTB

Drug Elimination Campaign

Drug Rehabilitation is starting to be noticed to the point that Copy Cats are popping around the world. Now, please, I don’t mean it in a bad way. I think it is very good that there is a general interest in the subject and that there is more rehabilitation centers, although not all qualify, in my opinion, to be called such.

Not all the rehab centers are the same, while few are comparable to the sport of ‘catch and release’ in fishing, the majority is dedicated to produce a drug-free individual. In all there is a wide range of methods and results.

I think that we have reached a point as society that people is starting to notice the huge problem that drug use is causing. There are probably millions of lives destroyed and/or affected by drugs while others have profited from the ruin of others. This reminds me of the demise of the Roman civilization. Are we going in this direction?

While there is not enough being done in the field of drug prevention there are a number of world recognized organizations doing something about drug prevention as an educational activity.

The three arms to stop drug proliferation would be:
a) Drug elimination – stopping production and distribution
b) Drug Prevention and Education
c) Drug Addiction Rehabilitation

I know that there is something being done in the last 2 categories because I do research and also I help in this area and I know a lot of people and organizations that help too.

At this point I only ask that you help and that everybody helps at all levels of society and government to eliminate drugs from our culture and this way make a better humanity.

Education or Police and Jail

After one has informed oneself about the current statistics and trends (see the previous two posts) it is hard not to be pessimistic about the social impact of drugs, however not all is lost. There are many organizations doing their best in eliminating or curving the drug epidemic which has resulted in a decrease of crime and drug use.

We can conclude that it is possible to stop and revert the trend if there is enough agreement and participation in people. This is a major undertaking that requires of your participation and everybody’s.

We can also conclude that the major factor in the reduction in crime and drug use is due to the numerous educational programs being presented in schools (based on other statistics). Most of these programs are being sponsored by non profit organizations and the rest by government. These drug educational programs are directed to school children, who are the most vulnerable group in society and compose the future generation of citizens.

We need to place more enfasis in education. The other side of the coin is police and jail, which history has proved that this is not an answer. The use of police and jail has not make man better, it is as best a deterrent. Man has not stoped crime because there is a deterrent, man has stoped wen he has realized that there is moral side to himself a better side. Here is were education fits into the equation.

Drug Addiction Statistics in the U.S. (second part)

Drug Addiction statistics can benefit the public by displaying factual evidence that certain drugs are becoming a problem. Also, drug addiction statistics show the growing trends of drug use which will give us a look to the future. Hopefully, this will help in preventing the rise of drug addiction.

• In one research study, approximately 1 in 5 people between the ages of 16 and 59 said that they had taken at least one of the drugs mentioned.
• People ages 18 to 21 were most likely to admit having taken drugs with almost half (46%) claiming to have taken them.
• More men than women said that they had taken drugs. 24% of men and 16% of women had taken at least one kind of drug in their lives. Amongst those ages 18-21; 51% of men and 38% of women had taken drugs.
• More men than women had experienced taking more than one drug at a time. 52% of men but only 36% of women who had taken drugs had taken more than one type.
• Marijuana was the most commonly used drug, experienced by 12% of all participants and 24% of those ages 18 to 25.
• 19.5 million people over the age of 12 use illegal drugs in the United States (Mayo Clinic).
• 19,000 deaths occurred from drug addiction in the US (Mayo Clinic).
• 9,102 persons died of drug-induced causes in 1999 USA (NVSR Sep 2001)(National vital statistics reports).
• Death rate extrapolations for drug addiction in the United States: 19,102 per year, 1,591 per month, 367 per week, 52 per day, 2 per hour, 0 per minute, 0 per second.
• Emergency department visits involving Ecstasy increased 58 percent in the United States, from 2,850 visits in 1999 to 4,511 in 2000.
• The number of emergency department visits involving heroin/morphine increased 15%, from 84,409 to 97,287.
• There were 601,776 estimated drug-related emergency department episodes in 2000. Among these, there were 1,100,539 drug mentions. Keep in mind, more than one drug may be in a person’s system at the time of admission.
• Alcohol in combination with other drugs was the most frequently mentioned drug at time of emergency department admission (204,524), followed by cocaine (174,896), heroin/morphine (97,287), and marijuana (96,446).
• From 1999 to 2000, emergency department mentions of prescription drugs containing oxycodone increased 68%(from 6,429 to 10,825), and mentions of drugs containing hydrocodone increased 31% (from 14,639 to 19,221).
• From 1998 to 2000, mentions of oxycodone and hydrocodone increased 108%.
• Employed Drug Abusers cost their employers about twice as much in medical and worker compensation claims as their drug-free coworkers.
• Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. In 2001, it was used by 76% of current illicit drug users.
• In 2001, an estimated 15.9 million Americans ages 12 or older were current illicit drug users, meaning they had used an illicit drug during the month prior to the survey interview. This estimate represents 7.1% of the population ages 12 years old or older.
• The percentage of the population using illicit drugs increased from 6.3% in 1999 and 2000 to 7.1% in 2001. Between 2000 and 2001, statistically significant increases were noted for the current use of marijuana (4.8 to 5.4%), cocaine (0.5 to 0.7%), pain relievers (1.2 to 1.6%), and Tranquilizers (0.4 to 0.6%).
• There were 19,102 deaths from drug-induced causes in 1999 (legal and illegal drugs).
• The number of persons with drug addiction problems increased from 14.5 million (6.5 percent of the population) in 2000 to 16.6 million (7.3%) in 2001.
• In 1999 there were 179,000 treatment admissions for primary injection drug addiction and 34,000 admissions for secondary injection drug addiction.
• Opiates accounted for 83% of admissions for injection drug addiction, followed by methamphetamine/amphetamine (11%), and cocaine (5%)
• Among 1999 injected drug admissions, persons admitted for injecting opiates averaged 14 years of use before entering treatment for the first time. Those admitted for injecting methamphetamine/amphetamine averaged 12 years, and for cocaine 13 years.

Other resources: National Center for Health Statistics

Substance Abuse Statistics

Here is some government statistics that will help you to put things in perspective:

Substance Use in the 15 Largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas: 2002-2005

Table 1. U.S. 2005 Population (in Millions) of 15 Largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas

Metropolitan Statistical Area	Annual Census Estimates of the Population (July 1 2005; in Millions)*
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA	18.7
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA	12.9
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI	9.4
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	5.8
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	5.8
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach, FL	5.4
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX	5.3
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	5.2
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA	4.9
Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI	4.5
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH	4.4
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	4.2
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	3.9
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ	3.9
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	3.2
Total United States	296.4

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006

For more information go to the SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration site.)

If these figures are right that is 296.5 million people that are being influenced by alcohol and other drugs. Note that these statistics are 4 years old, by now these figures must be higher.

Drugs and Education

Lately there has been a big push by drug companies to sell their products. These companies spend a lot of money to promote these drugs. Doctors also receive incentives to push their drugs. The drug industry is a multi-billion dollar industry.

Drug manufacturing companies are well funded and are a profitable business; they have investors that urge them to keep making money for them. The investors could care less if they are accomplices in one of the biggest scams and tools of human decay and degradation. Profit is the only concern.

There is no proof that these drugs help anyone. Drugs are at best palliatives that dull the perception of living, which it seems it is getting worse for some. Drugs offer no solution, just accelerate the inevitable, a supposed painless death.

A good portion of these “medical” drugs end up in the hands of kids. There is a big push to get the kids on drugs at an ever earlier age. Now days the “Psychs” are trying to push drugs on kids as young as 2 and 3 years old on the name of help. But what help?

The result of this drug pushing is devastating as demonstrated by current statistics of increasing crime in schools, including killing rampages.

Of course parents are guilty too. Some are increasingly irresponsible on their kid’s education and expect that schools will take care of them. More parents work two jobs and more moms are missing on their educational roll at home and spend less and less time with their kids.

The end result of this is that kids are growing detached from the family and begin looking for answers and comfort with friends, friends that are just as unprepared and emotionally fragile as them. This, together with “schooling,” media advertising and pier pressure puts the kids at the edge of apathy, the perfect place to start using drugs.

Okay, this looks just like an introduction to this subject. Do you have a different opinion?

More on Education and Health

The top layer of education is the parents, not schools or governments. Whomever thinks otherwise is the result of misguided logic.

There is no proof or statistics that show that kids are better educated by others, on the contrary, statistics show (by analyzing them of course) that the more we give government-based education to the students the worse they are getting.

Today kids are worse educated than a generation ago; university students that can’t read are more common these days. Dropout rates have increased.

Parent based education and the reinstatement of a more moral society has to be the goal of this generation. This is the basis of a healthy society and a better world, a world without drugs, a happier man.