On Needle-exchange worker helps heroin users in Rock County
Posted on May 2 at 2:23 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Check out the statistics,
legal pharmaceuticals are responsible for far more deaths and overdoses in our children than illegal drugs.
The number one leading cause of deaths to our children are factors directly related to poor nutrition!
What is your child eating for breakfast this morning? If a child doesn't eat well, they can not think well. If we want change in our communities, we need to be willing to change our own personal thinking and behavior.
On Needle-exchange worker helps heroin users in Rock County
Posted on April 22 at 10:55 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Handing out information and clean needles is part of a Harm Reduction model. It is part of reducing the harm an addict causes to themselves and to others while they are in their active addiction. To understand it one might take the view that we are all connected to each other. A person who is an addict is a brother, a sister, a mother, a father, a friend, a neighbor, a daughter, a son, etc. Out of a greater, or a higher sense of ourselves, and those around us, the idea is to help them cause less harm to themselves, until they hopefully find recovery from their addiction. As you hear, there is not enough beds, not enough money or resources to accommodate in-patient treatment. In the interim, how can we lessen the harm an addict is causing?
An addiction can happen to anyone, if you listen as a person talks about their own beginning, you will hear repeatedly that they never thought it could happen to them, never thought they would become an addict, they had dreams and plans, some had and some still have great jobs, and education. Never say never -
"harm reduction" is a compassionate act. Yet the motivation can be one of love, or it can be totally self serving.
Eventually, and at some time, in the self serving view, what happens to a person with an addiction will effect you, or impact your life in some way- by raising your medical costs, insurance costs, taxes, somewhere your path crosses the path of an addict - would you like that addict to be infected with HIV, or would you like them to be free of HIV. Thus there is a logical reason and purpose in considering the "harm reduction" model.
Your own motivation really does not make a difference, the argument stands strongly in either case, weather you happen to side out of compassion for others or for yourself.
Removing driving privileges from a person who drinks and drives is an excellent form of the "harm reduction" model at work within the community. We may not be able to prevent the drinker from drinking, but we can take a step in reducing the opportunity to drive a car and kill someone, or themselves.
~Cheryl
On Was baby's death murder or accident?
Posted on January 24 at 12:41 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
My heart weeps even though I do not know any of these people, or extended family members.
So many of us have had our own experiences of one too many drinks, or a drug experience where we may of gotten way too wasted, and said or did something that was so embarrassing.
It is easy to shun, to look at this and want to distance ourselves as though these people are so different from us, so far from who we are or what we are capable of ourselves in our own humanity. I don't think it true. How many times has any of us when we get real honest, drank too much, or know of or have had a family member with a drinking problem, this we can relate to. Alcohol is an addictive substance, not a lot different from heroin except it is "legal" to purchase and consume.
It is difficult not to judge the decisions which were made...judging against another who may not of had an addiction, or who may not of already been high. Of course a person in their "right" mind would of gone to the hospital immediately, they would not of had a reason to travel to a dealers house.
We all have our own divine life path here to walk, sometimes it is remarkably grand, and sometimes it is fought with deep deep pain, so deep one finds it hard to keep faith, to find their way, to hold on and believe that there is a God, or a purpose in everything that happens. Yet we find such events, burdens so heavy to bare, those which completely dismantle us emotionally create the opening to, the pathway into spiritual communion with God, where we find healing,love, and forgiveness,the place where we emerge with a sense of grace.
My heart is weeping not only for this family, but for all who are suffering from addictions of their own, or their loved ones.
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On Heroin treatment can start, stop many times for struggling users
Posted on May 2 at 2:47 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
From a personal perspective, main stream society has become so overly dependent on drugs, legal drugs. We have legal drug pushers advertising on every tv stations day and night how this drug or that drug is going to make you feel better in one way, of course you have to survive the side effects/ or perhaps they would like it if you did not, so you could also do some more of their drugs to ease one side effect after another.
We are a society that attempts to treat the side effects, instead of dealing with the underlying reason, the core issue. Someone feels depressed, give them an anti-depressant-never ask them about their diet, or whats going on around them that is depressing. We have mainstreamed our schools and taught them that they can push young parents into seeking out drugs to make sure their kids sit still and behave in the classrooms. Yet we never educate them on health and diet.
We are all connected, our children are not gathering information from only their mom or dad, they gather information from all sources unless you have them locked away somewhere completely limiting their input.
Drug abuse, low self esteem, suicides, angry rampages, ect...these are all symptoms in which we all have played a part in, we are not separate from our communities, we are a part of these symptoms.
How can we awaken as a people? Our first step may have to be to say no to drugs ourselves, and clear up our own heads and be able and capable of thinking clearly in order for our children to follow suit. Can we say no to foods that inhibit our health, and well being, in order to clear our minds and thus have our children follow suit?
We have to become willing, if we want and desire our children to be willing. We are teaching by example. We are being watched, and noticed. We start first with ourselves.