Posted by Tony Bylsma on September 16, 2011 under How to Help a Drug Addict | 
I had a sobering experience in a classroom this week. A young high school student came up to me and said her father was addicted to crystal meth and sometimes crack cocaine. What she told me was not easy to listen to but I knew it was true by her mannerisms and by her tears.
At 17, she’s the oldest of four children; the youngest is five. Her mother works two jobs and she herself works after school in order to help pay the rent and feed the family. No health care, no car, barely covering the basics in order to survive. Her mother insists she stay in school and graduate, I agreed wholeheartedly.
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on September 13, 2011 under Drug Abuse Prevention Education |
I was speaking in a parent-teacher meeting and the questions that came up several times were basically this, “how can I tell if my kids is using drugs? And, “What should I look for to see if my son is on “marijuana”, “speed”, “cocaine”, “ecstasy”, on and on until I just said, “Wait a minute! How many people here suspect that their children are using illegal drugs?”
When I saw well over half of the hands go up, I changed the whole direction of the lecture.
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on August 7, 2011 under Effective Drug Detox Rehab |
Hello everybody, sorry about the sporadic posts, I have received some emails asking what’s up. I have been busy launching a couple of new projects, one on the net and one in the classrooms. But I should be able to catch up here soon!
During a lecture in a library last week, a teacher asked a question:
“Tony, what are the chances of anybody completely overcoming drug addiction, really?”
Before I answered him I asked if he ever knew someone who was successful at overcoming addiction to drugs and he said, “You are the only one.” The students just stared at him.
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on August 1, 2011 under Drug Abuse Prevention Education |
A man just left my office with a plan to speak to students in chapters of his old fraternity around the nation regarding the drug problems being found in the various chapters.
He had come to me for suggestions on how to approach the administration in the fraternities home office so they would support his efforts with at least travel expenses, he is willing to do work for free, but can’t run all over the US without at least expense money.
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on July 11, 2011 under Effective Drug Detox Rehab |
No, but it CAN be the beginning of the end.
I have seen many, many people go through drug rehab treatment since I went through it myself in 1976. I’ve helped many of them to quit drugs and go on to live full lives without the anchor of drug dependence around their necks. I have also seen some fail and slip right back into the mud of drug addiction.
The reasons why some succeed and some fail are many, but nearly all of these addicts wanted to stop using. So what happened to those who didn’t make it?
It started with drug relapse.
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I had a sobering experience in a classroom this week. A young high school student came up to me and said her father was addicted to crystal meth and sometimes crack cocaine. What she told me was not easy to listen to but I knew it was true by her mannerisms and by her tears.
