International Perspective on most Americans Today

I’ll tell you what I want you to do for me – right now!

As we go through our days trying to help “patients” who find our clinic, half way believing what we see coming through our professional door (or calling in over the phone is even better now) to be some kind of “normal” for our world, or somewhat “legitimate” even, we often learn how sad the truth is in this country now about “what’s really going on here”.   It’s about Behavior now so often.  Today’s typical American is basically a spoiled brat.  This may not be true of all, but it sure is true of the vast majority today.  And the worst part is the “why” behind why we as a nation don’t see this, too!  That’s the part that’ll kill us all in the end; that’s for sure!

It takes a level of babying today’s “customer” – to such a ridiculous degree, just to be able to “have their business,” that is truly stupid nowadays!  Any legitimate business would “just say no” to more of these Americans, more often than “yes,” surrounding this level of abuse of ones’ services, staff, facility and persons trained to maintain your business – “serving” this selfish clientele’, acting appreciative just to be able to gladly catch this hideous level of typical American abuse thrown onto most businesses in operation today?  Not hardly.  Thankfully, some show up to back us up on our unusual positions against this – standing against this type of American Behavioral Aggressive Drama (A-BAD thing), as they are at such a distance from this to be able to see it – clearly and accurately – for what it is (and not for what “we” deny about it, typically, here in this behaviorally sick country).

I know you have a lobby full of people, and if you refuse to give me drugs or what I want, guess how loud I can get?!!

For maintaining an open door to today’s American public, mind you, comes an extremely daunting task – requiring high energy, stamina, endurance & quite the “restrained” attitude – all endured by so many in the working world of today, just to “serve the public” (and you should just see what today’s “public” actually has in store for you as a business in this country today, along with what “they” can bring to your business and can openly do to you there these days, in living rude reality)!  The mistake most businesses  commit today is to try to serve this demanding crowd… and “make them happy”?  Good luck!  This trying task has become in this country something other than what it should or could be, most know, but few will openly admit what this “fun” is all about that we speak of here today, that’s for sure.  Actually, many know this truth about “we” Americans, but few are willing to stand up and call it what it truly is today – which is nothing but arrogant “bad behaviors” exhibited by a large breed of spoiled Americans – as to do so openly would be akin to “running off your customers” and would be very “bad for business” today, if not worse.  All this while most businesses in America today operate in what has become a nightmare of drama, day to day, putting up with the typical American Bad Behaviors – thrown at anyone daring to maintain an “open door to the public” – in this emotionally sick nation we have going here today.  ”It’s my world – everybody else just lives in it!”  This seems to be the main teaching to all younger Americans today, quite obviously…and we do dare confront this at our location on a daily basis, as we say “Hold on a minute!”  We don’t tolerate that abusive behavior here, and we think it’s time you just leave, as well…with your inappropriate bad behaviors, with you!  You bet we do this – often today!

In the business of “emergency rooms” and walk-in clinics today, where we work to resolve serious medical and social (i.e. behavioral) problems here in the Southeastern part of the U.S.A, we often discuss this issue “behind closed doors” with the few sane individuals we find or know (having to deal with it, with us).  Discussions usually revolve around how clearly stupid it has become to maintain and operate a “door open to today’s public” here in this declining country we see coming apart at the seems these days.  If we told the truth about this experience, we would have to simply label this with at least some of the following obvious adjectives, about Americans today: Stupid, Arrogant, Ignorant, Demanding, Pushy, Insolent, Dangerous, Drug Seeking, Misbehaving in Public, Lots of Melo-Drama, Selfish, and so on.  The American Public today has overwhelmingly become like that of a 2 y/o child – most often getting their way through the inappropriate and highly dramatic displays of “dissatisfaction” over everything!  Most often, this comes out as a purposefully well-played “drama” in the public eye for all to see…and for a typical business reaction to quickly “give them whatever they want” (if they’ll just be quiet)!  And you think I’m kidding here about this?  Fact: This has EVERYTHING to do with this country’s total dysfunction in Politics, Schools, Families (including Addictions) – all of which is now becoming the disaster it has been warning us about in this country for many decades, now.

But on rare occasion we do find a person or family we treat who “isn’t from around here” (although this is not the main criteria that prevents this behavioral plague from invading us, believe me) and these few folks seem to have a very different view of what they see in we Americans today, too.  They notice this insane thing called “behavior” well; they’ll tell you about it – if you’re not part of the problem of “it,” too.

As our latest “good experience” so happened here (and they have become so rare we do talk about them now), we just had the pleasure of encountering a young man at the clinic who was able to speak, though reluctantly so, about what he sees in the typical American’s ugly behaviors!  Here is what he said.  ”I’ve noticed the way (you) American’s behave today; it’s very distressing and extremely difficult to have to deal with, on my part…” (paraphrased)

As this man’s visit proceeded, it became expedient to discuss both Anxiety & Stress related to his having experienced this out of the average “American” he works around today – this being so different, he explained, to what he experienced as he lived in Canada for so many years before.  People just don’t behave this way, up there, it seems…imagine that!

It so happens this young man is a very intelligent computer IT type person, working for the U.S. Government after being self-transplanted “back to the USA” from Canada, where he spent most of his young life of decades past.  He knows both countries well, it turns out.  His clear comparisons of “how it is here vs there” in both realities became the central topic of our conversation, by treatment’s end, too.  You see, we’ve long noticed this to be a serious problem in this country as we must deal with this – American’s growing Bad Behaviors – in the field of Addiction.  This is the “how to fix this” in Addiction, basically, and it’s where most candidates for treatment do fail, as well.  They often want no part of it – identifying their own “bad behaviors” in a way as to correct this deadly pattern of dysfunction (despite this literally killing them, and the rest of us, through their Addictions)!

It’s called “Behavioral Medicine” for a reason, and it’s eating this nation like a rabid cancer today, yet, few will gutsy up to even identify this prevalent nasty issue about themselves…and “ourselves” as a misbehaving nation today…because we are extremely full of crap and immature to a level of, say, about an emotional age of about 12 (in most cases)…all of which are “not nice” issues most mature peoples of the world (past and present) have had to deal with prior to their teenage years.  But not US.  No, we insist “we” are all “just fine” from birth now in this country, I guess.  Still, by not addressing this behavioral issue in reality today, it only gets worse.  Eventually, we will literally come apart at the seams; many think today (I received a call this very day about this – from a person known to have insight deep and accurate to the core of this very issue today) America is on the verge of  a total meltdown, concerning all this dysfunctional internal stuff about now, too.

America – where Reality is stranger than Fiction – and where a nation of “we’re just fine” all live, always – just ask us!  Hint: If one person tells you something you don’t like or think is true, then just drop it…probably.  If two or fifty two tell you the same “unpleasant thing” about yourself…then, if you drop that, you’re the idiot with your head stuck in the sand, absolutely!   Think about it, Ostrich nation!

Disclaimer: Truth rules over opinion or desires that something could be different than what is, and that same Truth is what has the power to “set us free,” too…if we’d listen.  Will we?  Unfortunately, the truthful or real opinions about this American Tragedy, called Bad Behaviors, is not just my own.  It’s the assessment and conclusion of many who “see the Truth” and dare to speak it today, even if it hurts!  There can be no other way to remain free or mentally healthy than to do just this.  I dare you America!  It’s time to stand up and speak the Truth about US and all else today.  Stop being the Ostrich!  It won’t work in the end…

It’s about Behavior…most Problems in America…then comes the Drugs!

It’s about Behavior.  It’s the very interaction issued between human beings – as they “communicate”.  It has real weight, behaviors today!  It’s the emotion & tone all communications are passed through and their way through to the other side, don’t you know.  (Well, all communications except those sent in plain script – letters, emails, texts, etc. – where we still attempt to place “tone” to all this upon arrival.)  Behaviors are used to convey far more than the basic words we ever choose to say.  Consider the issue here for a bit with us.

Look at this kid.  Behaviors involved in what he’s doing here, do you think?  Behaviors are taught from one to another.  They are “acceptable” or “unacceptable,” and the teaching of this to others is a powerful thing in every society.  What a society “allows” (or is “taught” is acceptable) is a direct reflection of what that society is made of – internally – never forget this.  Often Behaviors are taught by parents – to their own children – through example, mostly.  Who do you think taught this child some interesting communications here? 

This is funny, right?  He’ll probably make an excellent Politician or Football Coach one day, but if you think this is so funny, you ought to be taught another more harsh form of the same lesson this child needs to be taught here in a desperate way, too!  Such “bad behaviors” are the most ignored and inappropriately dealt with “issues” in America today, by far.  It’s the reason our society is on the decline; the behaviors reveal “what’s really going on inside” any society, clearly.  And we wonder why we have so many drugs abused, relationships fail, families split up, societal discontent, crime, maliciousness, drama & total disasters within this country that are ongoing these days?  Really?

Are we seriously that stupid?  (That answer to that question today is “absolutely yes” unfortunately.)  Maybe when the mis-behaviors begin – early on – we ought to deal with these more appropriately?  Do you think?  It was all those missed “teaching moments” and all that corrective “good parenting” that could have been taught that made the difference – in what you get in the end nowadays, do you think?

Listen to what people are saying today; actually listen to their words!  It’s downright atrocious, as a norm, now.  Not many do this, but you can literally tell about who someone is, just by “listening to them” closely.  It’s surprising to do this so many times – as they will stand there and tell you directly just how seriously dysfunctional or stupid they truly are; how idiotic are their deepest thoughts, never once understanding what they just told you…if you’re able to hear them closely.  Try it.

Today, our society has what is known as a Liberal bent where “everything’s O.K.” and any proper criticisms or condemnation of any specific activity is called “bullying” or “intolerance”.  This taught behavior is destroying our very society, yet these Loons persist in teaching/bullying the international religion of Tolerance into everyone?   (Tolerance, by the way, is for wimps!  It is not O.K. to “tolerate” everything today.  It is excellent to discern what is right and what is wrong, and say so!  It is therefore correct to become “intolerant” toward anything exhibiting “bad behaviors” in our open society, for the good of everyone, btw!  But it does require each of us to “think for yourself,” which we are not at all encouraged to do by those in charge today.)

Alternatively, we’re not talking about punishing every wrong move someone makes; nor are we talking about supporting those committing or doing their own “counter reactions” to others perceived wrongs today – through violence, constant criticisms, accusations, following “PC” media-pushed compliance-type mandated behaviors (of pure dysfunction today)…or even supporting those openly shaming others for standing behind what they know to be “right” or “wrong” today.  No.  There is a balance in the behaviors arena; it’s just that Americans are basically clueless about “what’s really going on here” most often these days.  They don’t know how to behave, truly!  Add to this, unfortunately, most “behavioral terrorists” (i.e. those who use bad behaviors to coerce others into doing what they say) reside today in our own Government!  (More on that later.)

But it IS about Behaviors – in the final analysis – all that we allow to persist, and condone, and vote for, and support – here in America today.  We are the author of our own demise by so doing, or allowing, absolutely.  ”People only do what they are allowed to do,” after all!  Destruction of our own society has well begun due just this one single issue now.

Fact: There are basic rules of healthy behavior that we have tossed away like nobody’s business in this country today.  For this act of defiance, we ushered in discontent, interpersonal drama, dysfunction (like nobody’s business), drug abuse & addictions, all types of deviant & defiant behaviors, perversions…all because from the one viewpoint (i.e. the Left) there seems to be nothing wrong with everything anyone wants to do on the planet, they say.  Wrong.  Bad behaviors are bad behaviors – no matter who’s committing them in front of you.  It ought to be called what it is and dealt with promptly.  Do you think this little girl gets to act out this way in her own home, anytime she feels like it?  If she lives in America, you’d better bet strongly (just on the averages today) that she does!  And the likelihood that she’ll turn out “healthy, happy & wise” is extremely small, likewise.

There’s a list of “how to behave” expectations and instructions in the Good Book for a reason.  We might even take a stab at listing many of these out for you here, someday soon, too.  Learn it, Know it, Live it..happily.

Drug Addicts Targeting Real Estate Showings

Drug Addicts Targeting Real Estate Showings

Real Estate Agents warned: Druggies showing up at “open houses” to raid medicine cabinets.

Read more: http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=119078&article=10132172#ixzz1v9LgUFte

Be careful who you open your doors to at your “open house,” some drug addicts are now trying to score at real estate showings.

The pain pill addicts are scouring the Sunday paper for open houses dressing up as potential buyers, and then showing up hoping to score.

Amara Durham is an addiction specialist with Caron Texas.

“And they’re there to find drugs that people have left behind in cabinets. If you are having an open house and you haven’t cleared out your prescription medications it’s the same as putting a note on the mirror and saying ‘Hey, open up!’”.

She says sometimes the value on a bottleof name brand medication can be
worth $5,000 on the street. As the addiction rate to pain pills soars, so does the price.

“We have addicts who look like you and me and not like drug users in an alley with needles in their arms … combing the Sunday paper for an open house listed there. They go dressed, looking like potential buyers,” says Durham.

Durham says before hosting an open house, take your valuables and your medications with you.

“The responsibility lies with the homeowner and that means that before you show your home, you take those tablets, put them in a shoebox and take them from the home.”

Experts say the number of Americans who are addicted to prescriptiond rugs like painkillers far outstrips the number of people addicted to traditional street drugs like heroin and crack cocaine.

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ADDICTION TREATMENT TN Commentary:
Could you pick out any potential drug criminal?  What if she comes over all “made up”?  How about any friends of friends from out in the world – over as a crowd inside your own home or just those dropping in for an “Open House,” say?   Most can’t do this…most don’t even think about it today, in fact.  Many in our society today who are the manipulators are the very ones who can present themselves as “happy” and “outgoing,” as well.

One of the keys to spotting an addict, however, is that their mouths don’t stop jabbering often enough to have you think about them, in front of you, personally.  We say at the office, “diarrhea of the mouth” is a key sign of the typical drug seeker today.  It’s no wonder either – they have to “convince you” they’re not what they might appear to be, if you took a deeper look than just “surface,” you see.  As a policy today, it’s just best to “trust no one” until that person is able to commit enough of a “track record” in your presence over time that convinces you – as you study them closely – that the trust you need in them is in fact “verified”.  It’s the ole’ Ronald Reagan mantra again: “Trust – Verified!”  Use it, and do not be fooled by “just words” or “looks” or “good references”; you’ll be glad you stuck to this rule from now on in this country, believe me – as we are now a place where you can’t swing a cat (not literally) and not hit a drug addict today (almost literally)!

Remember: It’s not the “person” you should hate in any addiction, but it is their “disease”.  It’s about behaviors…only…and if they get themselves straightened up, then and only then, they can develop trust again in society…and you should allow only this.  Then only…

Drug Addiction or Ab-Use is Treatable!

Focus First on what it is - before you can Treat It.

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IMMEDIATE SOLUTION: Begin your study about Addiction and Inappropriate Behaviors now by studying simply the concept of TRUTH.  Always ask yourself, “What is the Truth about whatever it is you are encountering?  Where are the Facts in this particular situation?”  And if you do not know, don’t be ashamed to admit this…and go find the right source for the TRUTH in your current predicament, always!  DO NOT ASSUME (as most do) that “I can handle it”…while you fail miserably at this, convincing yourself you did the right thing!  You did not – if you did this.  TRUTH is all that matters in the end.  Most likely, you have (as do most others) a lot to learn about “What’s really going on here” with any situation involving Addiction – despite what you may think to the contrary?

You can call our office for expert help with Addiction and/or any other Medical Problem anytime: 865-908-6402 - whether this be for a “long distance telephone consultation” (which we do directly and frequently, utilizing our unique and highly applicable, specialized “tool,” called our MD Addictionologist – who has the right training after years spent in the A & D medical treatment private practice field, to be very capable of helping you determine what things you will need to do in your specific desperate drug abuse situations and/or medical issues.  Dr. Smith is a long time “ER Doctor,” as well, and he can also see you as a Patient – as both Addict or “co-addict” or together, depending on your situation – by appointment only, at his private East Tennessee medical office, where he often treats many in their desire for “detox” and “recovery treatment”.  The process begins with an expert “Intake Assessment” by Dr. Smith; nothing happens until the Assessment is complete.  A “Treatment Plan” of “Care Options” is then developed for each Patient, which can then be used to continue outpatient intensive drug treatment & recovery care, for both parties involved, including the one needing “drug detox”.  Addiction is not a disorder that is helpless today, but it does require full participation of the Addict – without anger, aggression, hostilities, manipulation or dishonesty – in the process of recovery.

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The Real Drug Fix!

Fighting Relationships & Chemicals

The Overall Fix – to the Drug Fight – within & without – for the Addict & their Families, begins this way:

1. Get Honest -  Quit Lying/Coercing – Stop Manipulating  yourself & Others – Seek Truth at all cost.  It’s time to “get honest” – one & all.
2. Get Real - Stop Fooling Yourself & Others.  Living in today’s world is a false reality – much of it allows you & your Addict to continue to “do drugs,” in fact, with society’s direct help (through enabling, ignorance, manipulation, lies, mantra’s like “do anything you like – it’s O.K.”).  It’s time to grow up and live in Reality; take the consequences for your actions, fully, like a grown up; this is the first stage of real help…by the way.  Live, don’t Lie, in Reality.  Addiction HAS consequences that need “real” help.  You have to “Get Real” to get that “Real” help.  Take one (i.e. the drugs); take both (i.e. the consequences)…or die in the lie, next!
3. Stop trying to Control Others – which you cannot do anyway & is just another version of #1 above, actually.  Addicts do this.  Co-Addicts do this – to both the Addict and themselves – to their own detriment(s)!
4. Ask for Help (and mean it/humbly) – “Bend the Knee…”  If you can truly control this, then why haven’t you already done just that?  Answer: You can’t.
5. Stop Taking Advantage of Others around you.  Addicts take things from others around them, often.  It’s not your world – and everyone else just lives in it!  Stop this behavior.  Share; stop being so Selfish!  Addiction could be defined as PURE SELFISHNESS, very easily.  Those around the Addict, trying to help yet harming the Addict, could be described as CLUELESS, too…oops!  Don’t see it that way?  It’s time to follow someone else’s “Path Out” now.
6. Follow Instructions to find the Known Steps or Path Out of Addiction that Others have successfully taken, before you.  Do not assume you already know how to do this, because you do not.  True Recovery from Drugs is not as you think & most Addicts (and their immediate Family members) today act, in relation to what should be good Treatment, like asses!  And that may be the main reason “why” you cannot get better today, Mr. Addict!

If you are seriously serious about getting well, in any relationship on this earth, and then beyond, too, all you have to do is the above – with yourself and with all others around you.  Then, watch how much better your life will then become!

Come see us if you have a real need to get better – with excellent professional help – today!

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Painkiller sales soar around US, fuel addiction

Apr 5, 5:08 PM EDT Painkiller sales soar around US, fuel addictionBy CHRIS HAWLEY Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Sales of the nation’s two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients’ suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic.

From New York’s Staten Island to Santa Fe, N.M., Drug Enforcement Administration figures show dramatic rises between 2000 and 2010 in the distribution of oxycodone, the key ingredient in OxyContin, Percocet and Percodan. Some places saw sales increase sixteenfold.

Meanwhile, the distribution of hydrocodone, the key ingredient in Vicodin, Norco and Lortab, is rising in Appalachia, the original epicenter of the painkiller epidemic, as well as in the Midwest.

The increases have coincided with a wave of overdose deaths, pharmacy robberies and other problems in New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Florida and other states. Opioid pain relievers, the category that includes oxycodone and hydrocodone, caused 14,800 overdose deaths in 2008 alone, and the death toll is rising, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

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When Addiction Hits! Simple Fix – Ask for Help?

When the swirl of Addiction hits your world – here is something everybody can do!  Ask for Help!

Why not, right? Ask yourself this question, “Why should I even think I would know how to handle this issue myself?  How could I be expected to deal with something this complex, deadly & dangerous, no?”

How would something like this – for most people – be any different than, say, trying to land a jet airplane all by yourself – with people aboard?  Fact: People can DIE from both of the above problems – duh – if you try to do this all by yourself!  Guess what?  You don’t have to do that!  It’s true.  There’s expert help for this Drug Problem (though you will have to find it because it’s not available at all places that claim to treat this, unfortunately)!  But, it all starts with your being able to ASK FOR HELP – when it comes to complex problems like this in your life today.  Stop trying to handle all things by yourself.  That’s not even practical.  Nobody’s that smart.  This problem is a bear, too.  There are few people out there that can handle “bears”…but WE are out here, I promise!  Listen, smart smart people do this to have difficult things treated.  Go find a good “Addictionologist” wherever one exists!  Check him or her out first – not by internet reviews though!  Actually, the worse that is about your “Addictionologist” the better!  Know why?  Treating this correctly WILL make some people really angry…just like confronting anything for what it is does.  So, what you need is a little knowledge of your own on “how this works” first.  This blog should enlighten you to a lot of this – if you can read it and understand “how this works” in your position?  Unfortunately, most cannot do this, and the “merry-go-round of treatment” becomes theirs (and their “addicts’”) to suffer…for a long time to come, most probably!  To treat this disaster appropriately…you will have to “let go” and learn to understand “how to fly the plane” a bit yourself, etc.  It’s not the way you probably think it is to be done.  Most people are CLUELESS about “how this works”.  And that is why you cannot treat “your addict” on your own, friends!  Interventions and Drug Treatment is not just about obtaining another Drug (called “Suboxone”)!  Nope.  It’s a very tricky process, and you NEED HELP to do this – from the few of us out here that are quite able to do this, professionally!  Make a deal with yourself; you do your job as well as you can and allow others (i.e. “Addictionologists”) to do theirs as well as you allow them to do…so you should support each other in “doing your job only” from now on, right?

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FOR AN IMMEDIATE SOLUTION: Begin your study about Addiction by studying the plain Truth.  Always ask yourself, “What is the Truth here?  Where are the Facts?”  That is all that matters in the end and in every single situation, really.  But, most likely, you have a lot to learn about “What’s really going on here” – also called the “Truth” – despite what you may think to the contrary?  For HELP NOW, you can call our office for the expert help with Addiction or Medical Problems that you need.  Call: 865-908-6402 - whether this be for a “long distance telephone consultation,” which we do regularly & directly involving our expert MD Addictionologist.  Our office has the training & real world experience – treating real Addicts – over many decades now.  This office has spent its’ existence “dealing with addicts” just like “yours,” we promise!  You may not be able to “see what’s going on” in your situation, but we certainly can…and that’s valuable to you (if you can “get this” for yourself).  Dr. Smith can also see you as a Patient – as both Addict or as “co-addict” or together – by appointment.  This will occur at his private East Tennessee medical office, near the resort town of Gatlinburg, TN (where you and yours should come to enjoy a vacation while you begin your work with Addiction, simultaneously).  This is an excellent place for you to begin your work in “drug detox” and then your real “recovery treatment” that follows.  The process begins with an expert “Intake Assessment” by Dr. Smith, our on site MD Addictionologist.  A “Treatment Plan” of “Care Options” is then developed for all Patients seen, which can then be used to continue outpatient intensive drug treatment & recovery care, for both parties involved, including the one needing “drug detox”.  Addiction is not a disorder without expert help available today, but it does require full participation by the Addict – without anger, aggression, hostilities, manipulation or dishonesty – in the process of real recovery.  Participation by the Addict’s family is a major “plus” where available, as well.

Drug Seeking Threats – An American Reality Today

The Drug Seeker Threat in Disasters, by Dr. Bob

Reprinted off Survivalblog.com – a fantastic prep site for legitimate “Doomsday Preppers”!

People in the general public have little to no idea just how bad the drug abuse of prescriptions medications is here in the US.  Our recent discussion with our church small group spurred us to write this review for your thoughtful review.  Some fun facts to start us off, courtesy of one of my reliable medical reference sites, UpToDate:

6.2 million Americans in 2008 admitted to non-medical use of prescription drugs, 2.5 % of the population.
The number of Americans who have abused prescription drugs exceeds those who have used cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, ecstasy, and inhalants combined.
A 2005 survey of 50,000 US high school students found that while overall illicit drug use declined among adolescents over the prior decade, their non-medical use of prescription pain relievers and sedatives has increased.
Only marijuana use among illicit drugs (although becoming more “legal” everyday in some states) exceeds non-medical use of prescription drugs.

We start with those fun facts to shock you into reading further in addition to alerting you as to the depth and severity of the problem. WTSHTF, these 6 to 10 million seekers are going to be unhappy, withdrawing, and looking to score some pills.  They may be coming to your house, as 2.5% of the population is one out of 40 folks.  Most of us involved in primary care medicine would probably double that estimate, and in some areas of the country the rate will be much higher.  And this isjust prescription medications, not to mention the illicit drug users that will become prescription seekers that will have to “make do” with pain pills or tranquilizers as a substitute for the drug that they are going without.

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Addiction Treatment Discovery – The Way Out!

The Way Out!  Those who have found the way out of Addiction are few, but it has happened.  There is a Way Out!  And when you find that “rabbit hole” that connects to the other side…of this living disaster called Addiction…you just want to tell somebody about it, don’t you?  (Well, those of us who treat this illness with the little known “rabbit hole” of what works, certainly do want to help those willing to accept this solution – to Addiction.)  There IS a way out!   But, there’s a small problem with giving this information to Addicts and those around them.  Can you guess what that problem is?  [You can read the entire blog post on our Addiction Website here: http://addictiontreatmenttn.com/index.php/addiction-treatment-tn-blog-articles-posted]

Do You Know Where YOUR Drug Addict Is Tonight on the Road of Addiction?

In the Treatment of Addiction over these past two decades, the recent “improvements” in treatment seem to have come at a high cost to so many today  - both the Addict & all those around the Addict, as well. While there now exists this relatively new treatment drug, called Suboxone (for Outpatient Buprenorphine Opiate Treatment – or OBOT), we simultaneously see the following problems directly related to this new drug…in addition:

1. Instead of accepting and relying on the known path of true recovery, called the 12 Steps, through only this hundreds of thousands of lives having already been saved, the addict now tends to rely solely on this new drug called Suboxone – instead of any legitimate known path of “Program Recovery”. Addicts often feel that this drug alone is the entire solution to their Addiction problems…because “it” makes them “feel better” with less consequences than their prior drug of abuse. This is a dire mistake, because without a valid “Recovery Program” underlying any alternate Rx used (by which to “Detox” or so the term is so often mis-used today – because one doesn’t usually get off of this alternate drug, but they choose to stay on it “forever”), there exists (having no real Recovery Program in place) more relapses for any addict, as time goes by.  The use of Suboxone alone is not an actual “treatment for addiction” in reality. It is a cheap “trade one drug for another” trick that fails for so many in the end. But try convincing either the addict or their family of this fact today! Pay more for proper treatment and care vs pay a lot less for a lot less…which has the appearance of working well, at first. Many an argument has been started over this issue. Most OBOT clinics today just forget the Recovery part of what needs to occur, in place of what so many have chosen now to believe instead! But it takes more than “just another drug” to treat Addiction…all of which is left out because most people want (even demand) “short cuts” today, in most things. And what a Bad decision it all turns out to be, in almost every single case…identified by the inevitable and recurrent “relapse – that occurs whenever the drug runs out!”

2. The family of the addict tends to rely solely on this new drug, as well – as the perceived solution for their addict’s entire set of problems.  It’s so easy to view this just this way, too.  Just take this pill instead of taking those others – that made you crazy and had more consequences to their use, obviously!  Nevermind, you’re not taking care of the “Addiction” part of what you have…but you “feel better,” anyway, and that’s all that matters today…isn’t it! This incorrect assessment also causes the addict’s Addiction to deepen, over a longer period of time, far worse, so “when the drug runs out” (there again, just like it was with the original drug that was abused), the Addiction returns – with a vengeance!  Suboxone causes a horrible withdrawal syndrome, second only to Methadone, it appears to this Addictionologist today. But who’s listening?

3. Addiction is about Behaviors – first and foremost – and no “different drug” like Suboxone use could ever address this core concept involved in Addiction/Behavior.  Miss this, and you miss the “Addiction Potential” which is clearly in need of understanding better today.  For many an addict has died due exactly this – entirely missing the “how it works” part, along with “what’s gotcha” in this little tricky, nasty thing so difficult to understand, called Addiction. Hey, if you did understand it, why didn’t you fix it yourself a long time ago?

4. Suboxone Clinics are popping up everywhere.  It’s a trade off – switching one drug for another – in what has become a “Recovery-less” wild west of “merry-go-round” OBOT Clinics, all doing whatever they can to reach their 100 patient limits.  Not many today offer addicts the time of day, much less a full and complete Recovery Program – which all will need in order to remain “drug free” for the rest of their lives, obtainable in the appropriate amount of time in “good recovery”.  

5. With so many relapses, comes not only a deepening of the Addiction, but a progression of it as well. Going from swallowing pills to snorting them, and with more time in the swamp, most progress to IV drug use! It is far more difficult to quit, however you do it, when the progression takes hold…in the later years. Most addicts that have over 2 years using, don’t do well in quick type “drug only” detox (less any true recovery program). As well, mixtures of drugs abused creates (esp. when one of the drugs abused is a benzodiazepine) an almost impossible addiction to break – much less if one tries this with any “pills only” care situation. More Soon…