Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the News
Monday September 29, 2008
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Heather Locklear Arrested
Stopped for drunken driving.
• LaBeouf Won't Be Charged
Insufficient evidence of DUI.
• Susan Cheever Writes New Book
Sheds light on addiction.
• NASCAR Plans Random Drug Tests
Beginning next year.
• MillerCoors Delays Energy Drink
After pressure from 25 states.
• South Carolina Tightens DUI Laws
Closes many loopholes.
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Stopped for drunken driving.
• LaBeouf Won't Be Charged
Insufficient evidence of DUI.
• Susan Cheever Writes New Book
Sheds light on addiction.
• NASCAR Plans Random Drug Tests
Beginning next year.
• MillerCoors Delays Energy Drink
After pressure from 25 states.
• South Carolina Tightens DUI Laws
Closes many loopholes.
Read Details
Free Newsletter: Sign Up for Recovery News
Join the Discussion: Alcoholism Forum
Comments
Education about Substance Abuse should be given as early as middle school or high school. Most kids get into the habit because of curiousity, peer pressure, or as a coping mechanism for personal problems. However, if they are educated about the the forms and effects of substance excuse, perhaps it may make some of them think twice before indulging in the vice with careless abandon.
My daughter is in the CCA Leavenworth KS. She has a meth use problem. She has been using for 3 to 3 1/2 years. The drug squad picked her up over a month ago. IF she is lucky she is looking at 3 to 5 years. OK, she needs to pay for her actions but in the meantime, I want my daughter to come home well. I understand that a meth user/abuser will always have to fight the desire for meth. I want help for her. Just incarcenating her is not going to ready her for a life once she is out of prison. What can I do to get her this help and who do I talk to about getting it? Please give me advice as I am desperate in wanting to help her beat this addiction. I have seen such a change in her attitude these last few weeks that I am encouraged but I still don’t see that desire to ‘live’. Thanks, Cherryl
i am looking for a program for my son, and I have state aide insurance. I am finding it hard to find a center that will take our insurance, i find this SO VERY DISTURBING!!
JUST PASSIN THROUGH
On this journey called life, I like any other “normal” person have been through many difficult times. One golden nugget that I’ve learned is that it is perfectly normal to go through trials, but it is absolutely abnormal to build a house and reside in the middle of them.
God expects us to reach the promise land, but to celebrate that; we must walk through the desert (sand in our shoes, bad hair days & all). In the AA program we are encouraged to work the steps. Rain or shine we are to continue working towards the solution. It’s when we stop and make residence in our troubles; that we set ourselves up for a major fall.
As a kid growing up in the city, my brothers and I along with others from the neighborhood, would finds ways to entertain ourselves during the long summer months. One day (why, I don’t know) we all went down a manhole and began a journey through street drainage system. I remember my older brother instructing us all to take hold of the belt loop of the person in front of us. Holding onto that person for dear life, we all eventually saw the light at the end of the tunnel and conquered the darkness.
Like someone once said, “If your catching hell, don’t hold it and if you’re going through hell, DON’T STOP.”
My friends don’t ever roll over and die in your trials. Cry out to a loving God, didn’t He promise to “ never leave you nor forsake you”? And if you must, grab onto someone by the belt loop and experience the light of the promise land
Yours on the journey
Joe Rivera
Temecula, Ca
09-20-07
My son ia visually and hearing impaired, and he needs help with weed and alcohol. He went The Beginnings here in Tyler, he needs inpatient treatment, and they referred him to a center in Houston who will be able to provide enterpreting ( sign language). Is there any place closer to Tyler?
Is it me or are DUIs being more forcefully administered in a general sense and also concerning VIPS like Mike Tyson and Paris Hilton? I think the message is getting sent loud and clear: the courts don’t care if it’s VIPs or the average person who drinks irresponsibly and receives a DUI or multiple DUIs—those who drink and drive and get caught and going to have to suffer the legal consequences.
I’ve been off and on Methadone or something like it since 1971. Nobody would ever suspect it and I’ve led a pretty decent, responsible and rewarding life except for the instances where people who knew my secret couldn’t deal with or accept it. The stigna is horrendous. I would suggest that people who are in need of treatment investigate places like AA or NA first, but if substitution is necessary that is road that needs to be taken. Prisons are filled with the people who can’t stay off the drugs and their recidivism rates reflect this. I believe that maintenance programs should be the first place these people should be directed upon their release and exoffenders should be encouraged to participate. It is actaully getting a little better with suboxene and bupreorphine now available. Maintenance isn’t the answer for everyone but it should be available if needed.
Can someone please help me understand the WRAP program better. I want to be in my childs life when it is born and im unsure how to feel, I dont know if i am going to be able to be there for her and the baby if she is in the program.
sorry abby, education is not the answer.
while informative, it is ineffective at preventing drinking and drug use. DARE is a joke to most kids, and a waste of police resources.
as for the rehab scenario, in Ct. a disturbing trend has occurred; the poor get free long term rehab, the wealthy can afford the overpriced self-pay facilities, but the middle class without insurance, has no options.
I would say that education *alone* is not the answer. I would also agree that DARE is a failure…but that doesn’t mean that a more thoughtfully-run program can’t be a success. Education has had a positive impact on smoking rates and alcohol use (to a lesser extent). I work with an addiction treatment center near Sacramento and it is indeed true that many people “in the middle” who need help are getting squeezed. I’d like to see much more thoughtful spending for drug and alcohol programs in this country - and a society that supports and educates rather than one that punishes and incarcerates.
Look at all of the other country’s that have the drinking age at 18. I feel that the age of drinking will cause more accidents during the first twenty years but after that it should level out. Once alcohol and teens become a norm. Teens should be exposed to alcohol early on so they can understand social drinking.