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How Do We Stop 'Lone Wolf' Attacks?

How do we stop 'lone wolf' attacks?
Richard Reid, who became known as the "shoe bomber" after he tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001, was also a troubled young man — impressionable, dabbling in minor crime and drugs and ending up in a young offenders' detention center … Read more on CNN

As Debate Rages In Florida, Majority Of Americans Believe The Benefits Of …
But according to Dr. Fernando Branco, Medical Director of the Rosomoff Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center at Miami Jewish Health Systems, who treats patients that have complex and chronic pain – including amputees and patients with spinal cord … Read more on PR Newswire (press release)

Psychedelics: entering a new age of addiction therapy
So one December morning, McGlothlin walked into the research centre at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he took a small, blue capsule and sat in a room listening to classical music. … 70s involving 536 patients, published in … Read more on The Pharmaceutical Journal

Dalai Lama Award for Man Behind Surrey's PricePro Recovery Program

Dalai Lama award for man behind Surrey's PricePro recovery program
The sale, in 2004, allowed him to pour his heart and some $ 150 million into supporting two areas where he saw need: young people in Vancouver, Phoenix and Seattle who struggle with drug and alcohol addiction, and also young orphans in Africa who need … Read more on Surrey Now

Health Q&A: detox and lose weight
Although it has been used as a detox product for many years, recently there have been concerns about its safety. I recommend using chlorella instead. There has been significant research into its ability to eliminate toxins including alcohol and radiation. Read more on Telegraph.co.uk

New StoppingAlcohol.com Outpatient Alcohol Detox & Rehab Program at The …
The Detox Clinic of Hattiesburg announces the opening of a new StoppingAlcohol.com Outpatient Alcohol Detox & Rehab Program. The Clinic Director is Dr. Kevin M. Passer, a Johns Hopkins Trained, Triple Board Certified Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Miel De Botton: 'Singing Has Always Been My Secret Dream'

Miel de Botton: 'Singing has always been my secret dream'
In her bedroom – first in Switzerland and later, after her parents moved to the UK, in London – she would spend hours listening to Leonard Cohen and Van Morrison in-between writing poetry and pretending to conduct in front of the mirror. Music was … Read more on Daily Mail

Movies: 'Ernest & Celestine'
It also lacks the heroic proportions and poetry of “300,” mainly thanks to a less impressive cast and murky, forgettable script. Sullivan … 91 minutes; not rated, but with drug and alcohol abuse, sex, vandalism and profanity worthy of an R. — Roger … Read more on Ventura County Star

Surprisingly sophisticated rap lyrics
It's a reference to a well-known trend in ancient Greek poetry and literature: the invocation of the Muse. Migos is calling upon the inspirational … This is frankly the most artful satirization of recreational drug use that I have ever heard. Young … Read more on Johns Hopkins News-Letter

North Shore News in Brief
“Get to Know the Festival Poets,” a program at the Peabody Institute Library, will discuss the work of poets who will be featured at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, which will be held in Salem from May 2 to 4. Led by poet and Salem State … Al-Anon … Read more on The Salem News

What Do You Think About Methadone as a Treatment for Heroin Addiction?

Question by Christina: What do you think about methadone as a treatment for heroin addiction?
Alot of people look down on iy, bu its been proved to work better than the 12 step groups and the like. If you agree its good why? If you don’t why?

Best answer:

Answer by Sick of Butt-Hurt People
“bu its been proved to work better than the 12 step groups and the like.”

Please provide evidence for this assumption.

Methadone is good for pregnant women trying to stop IV Heroin Use, what can lead to all sorts of contaminants entering the bloodstream and adversely effecting the fetus and Methadone is great for people that, basically, have to either go on it or continue activities that will result in their immediate death…

But in the long term, “maintenance” therapy does nothing but prolong the suffering of the Addicts.

Addiction is a horrific biological and mental illness that has nothing to do with the Substance or even the Actions because “Addiction” is defined as the inability to stop doing something despite mounting consequences.

Withdrawal doesn’t have anything to do with addiction.
“Only Doing It Once And A While” has nothing to do with addiction.

People that are profoundly addicted to meth/speed only do it 2 or 3 times a week and they use their delusions of “Control” to make the claim that they’re not hurting themselves… The same is said for heroin addicts.

They are on an opiate that is MORE addictive and hard to get off of than Heroin and just because they have doctors giving the opiates to them doesn’t make it any less of a “Problem”.

By giving Methadone or even Maintenance Heroin does nothing but allow the problem to continue.

By allowing the problem to continue, you are harming the addict and, more importantly, the family, friends, and culture of the addict.

An impaired parent is an abusive and abandoning parent… As the child of an addict, I think that the children of these people should be removed from their custody immediately or, if possible, get them to consent to sterilization as they do with:

? Project Prevention – Children Requiring a Caring Community
http://www.projectprevention.org/

If you can’t care for yourself, you are unable to care for others… period… end of story. Addiction does nothing but cause damage to the brain development of the offspring and cause their own addiction biology to activate at an early age and the children then go on to perpetuate the generational transmission of trauma onto THEIR kids, leading to the next generation of homeless, impoverished, victimized addicts.

By telling people they can just “Coast” on maintenance therapy, you’re telling them that they’re “Better” when they’re not… It’s a quick and temporary fix that will still almost always lead back to relapse, cross addiction, etc.

Since it isn’t legal to just put addicts down for the good of everyone around them, the way we put down rabid dogs that can’t be trained to not try to bite, we have no choice other than to get these people to do as little harm as possible to EVERYONE ELSE and this means long term TREATMENT that includes supervised withdrawal, mental health treatment, and a structured environment that will train their brain to not seek drugs as a coping mechanism.

Maintenance Therapy should be nothing more than a temporary crutch as a part of a much greater treatment program, which includes 12-Step among other types of therapy and treatment.

Suicide would be the best thing that a heroin addict could do for themselves, their children, their family, their friends, and the whole human species. It’s the only way to both stop the suffering of the addict and the way that they do nothing but cause harm to anyone they are in contact with.

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Amphetamine addiction overtakes alcohol and heroin
The drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation centre has been treating Australians since 1977. Now for the first time, amphetamine abuse is the number one problem for people seeking treatment. The centre's staff say the use of drugs like speed, ice and … Read more on ABC Online

De Blasio's Daughter Admits Battling Alcohol, Drug Addiction
The 19-year-old daughter of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio admitted in a YouTube video released on Christmas Eve that she sought treatment for alcohol and drug addiction after years of also battling depression. Andrew Siff reports. De Blasio's Daughter Admits. Read more on NBC New York

A Pill to Cure Addiction?
Support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous only work in a fraction of alcoholics and addicts, according to Michael Fingerhood, who heads Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's division of chemical dependency. The few … Read more on Wall Street Journal

Why Is There a Higher Rate of Child Abuse in Foster Homes Than in the General Population?

Question by Titian: Why is there a higher rate of child abuse in foster homes than in the general population?
Children in foster care experience high rates of child abuse, emotional deprivation, and physical neglect. In one study in the United Kingdom “foster children were 7–8 times, and children in residential care 6 times more likely to be assessed by a pediatrician for abuse than a child in the general population”.[14] One study by Johns Hopkins University found that the rate of sexual abuse within the foster-care system is more than four times as high as in the general population; in group homes, the rate of sexual abuse is more than 28 times that of the general population.[15][16] An Indiana study found three times more physical abuse and twice the rate of sexual abuse in foster homes than in the general population.[16] A study of foster children in Oregon and Washington State found that nearly one third reported being abused by a foster parent or another adult in a foster home.[17] These statistics do not speak to the situation these children are coming from, but it does show the very large problem of child-on-child sexual abuse within the system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_care#Abuse_and_negligence

Best answer:

Answer by frockney
First, the children who are in care sometimes come from families where they themselves may have been subjected to some form of bad treatment ranging from being left to their own devices when the parents (or single mom) is out or being emotionally or physically abuse or all of this at once.

This is not to say that all kids removed are justly removed.

Furthermore, the people doing foster care are people who want to adopt but cannot afford the huge sums asked for by agencies (starting from $ 30,000). They may have a lower level of education. They may be considering the child as the “third best option” after failing to conceive naturally and not having the money to adopt a womb-web baby from an agency.

However, this is not to say that they are not decent people.

Also psychology scholars have found that there is an instintive, physical “safety catch” that stops natural parents from hurting their offspring and having sex with them. Admitedly, this “safery catch” does not function with every one, but it is just not present in non-blood related foster parents.

So the combination of these three factors means that kids in care end up falling from the frying pan into the fire.

In the 60’s, children’s homes fell into (well deserved!) disrepute. Now, there are some new solutions where these institutions are better structured, better staffed, where child psychology is better understood. Children who have problems should not go to problem families.

All this is meant to save money. Money would be better saved on proper, and timely, sex education and free contraception.

@Sammy Gabbie:
I would never take on one or more foster kids. I help these kids by donating to institutions who employ fully qualified staff. I am not qualified to deal with temperamental children who right or wrong have been separated from their parents.

I prefer to concentrate on my lovely, pretty, intelligent daughters. Natural children also need looking after, so they don’t become foster kids in the first place.

@angel face
This question was posted in US, so what I wrote fits. Also, in UK, the SS is very heavy-handed and take kids away for no reason whatsoever, they snatch kids at birth without giving mothers the possibility to prove their parenting skills, they take children into care on simple hearsay.

I would NEVER be complicit in SS crimes.

@Sammy Gabbie AGAIN
You will insist on invariably getting the wrong end of the stick. There is none more deaf than those who refuse to hear.
Anyway, in case you want a bit of bedtime-reading in your mobile home, I’ve selected some decent piece of research for you:
http://fixcas.com/scholar/impact.pdf

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Q&A: Why Is There a Higher Rate of Child Abuse in Foster Homes Than in the General Population?

Question by Marie Antoinette: Why is there a higher rate of child abuse in foster homes than in the general population?
Children in foster care experience high rates of child abuse, emotional deprivation, and physical neglect. In one study in the United Kingdom “foster children were 7–8 times, and children in residential care 6 times more likely to be assessed by a pediatrician for abuse than a child in the general population”.[14] One study by Johns Hopkins University found that the rate of sexual abuse within the foster-care system is more than four times as high as in the general population; in group homes, the rate of sexual abuse is more than 28 times that of the general population.[15][16] An Indiana study found three times more physical abuse and twice the rate of sexual abuse in foster homes than in the general population.[16] A study of foster children in Oregon and Washington State found that nearly one third reported being abused by a foster parent or another adult in a foster home.[17] These statistics do not speak to the situation these children are coming from, but it does show the very large problem of child-on-child sexual abuse within the system.