Posted by Tony Bylsma on February 28, 2010 under Effective Drug Detox Rehab | 
This time the pusher is hanging out much closer to home. In fact, he’s right there in the house. Online drug stores are offering all the prescription drugs that are available in your local pharmacy.
They are happy to dispense any controlled drug at a price much higher than one would pay at a regular drug store-often more than double that price- and an estimated 85% of these sites require no prescriptions or positive identification.
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on February 22, 2010 under Drug Abuse Prevention Education |
Spoke to a young addict after a drug education talk today who had everything so well explained that I was almost convinced he needed to keep smoking pot!
Funny thing is, he had gone online and found two or three of these websites that speak at length about the glories of getting high and how all reality is subjective anyway and who is to say that being sober is that much better than staying stoned out of your gourd anyway!?
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Posted by Tony Bylsma on February 19, 2010 under Drug Abuse Prevention Education |
This was really a terrific day for drug education and drug abuse prevention. At least it was in the little Catholic school I visited this morning in downtown Los Angeles. I have been to this parochial school every year, at least once since 2003 and I have been able to watch the students as they grow older. Read more of this article »
Posted by Tony Bylsma on February 16, 2010 under How to Help a Drug Addict |
Don’t Enable–Encourage. This is the oldest and most often mentioned fact about helping a drug addict, because it is completely true. The world will bring the consequences of drug abuse and addiction home to the drug user pretty quickly. To shield them from those penalties is not going to help them quit drugs, and there are more consequences coming down the pike. Protecting the user from these is a never ending battle which takes its toll on everyone, including the enabler and the enabler’s bank account.
Addiction is painful. Shielding a son or daughter from that pain is a natural urge for a parent, but doing so creates a false sense of safety which can lead to even more dangerous drug behavior in the future.
Don’t Sympathize—Guide. Sympathy should really be one of the seven deadly sins. It is one thing to understand the troubles of another, but to sympathize means to be in agreement with their actions and emotions. To sit down and cry with a person who is experiencing severe grief is not helping them to overcome their problem, it tells them that they’re right. It says that crying is the solution. When we sympathize we don’t help the troubled person to rise up, we go down there with him or her and join them in their misery. Don’t sympathize, guide them.
The addict has lost his way, even if they don’t yet realize that fact, he is headed in a self-destructive direction and cannot see it.
Posted by Tony Bylsma on February 15, 2010 under How to Help a Drug Addict |
We’ve all heard the old line, “A person has to hit the bottom before he’ll realize he needs to quit drugs.” This is one of those sayings that have just barely enough truth in them to literally kill someone.
We are talking here about drug addiction, a potentially lethal activity that is practically defined by poor and dangerous choices. To “hit bottom” can be a deadly or nearly deadly event. You may as well teach a child to stay out of traffic by letting him be hit by a truck.
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They are happy to dispense any controlled drug at a price much higher than one would pay at a regular drug store-often more than double that price- and an estimated 85% of these sites require no prescriptions or positive identification.
