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Hello,New member here. Am so glad I found Tom's site and this community. I stumbled across Tom's site by googling "tough love critics addiction." Finally, a new (to me) and humane voice. The conversation and advice out there as we all know is dominated by the enabling/codependent model of relating to your beloved child who has an addiction. I have been so incredibly confused about how to help my 21 year old daughter -- not an adult, not a child; how to deal with the distressing behaviors and…See More
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Posted by tom@recoveryhelpdesk.com on January 20, 2012 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Helga Culbert

Exciting Email

I got this email today and it made me smile! I would have been there if I lived in south Florida. Looks like they did a good job without me.

The first BAN OXYCONTIN rally was a HUGE SUCCESS. We urge all of you to have a rally in your towns and cities. We reached tens of thousands of people in the Tampa Bay Area and just think how many millions of people we could reach if everyone of you had a rally in your hometown. WE HAVE TO LET AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE KNOW THE DANGERS OF THIS DRUG!!!!

It was a beautiful April day and a group of around 40 people or more from all over the country gathered in front of a Tampa, Florida Pain Clinic for Florida's first "Ban OxyContin Rally." Most of the people that were protesting were relatives or friends of people who had either died from this drug or had been addicted. Many carried signs with pictures of their loved ones that had died. We were located on a very busy corner across the street from the University of South Florida and we had numerous motorists honking their horns in agreement with our "Ban OxyContin" signs. We also had pedestrians and motorists stop and ask questions concerning the dangers of OxyContin. Television news teams covered the rally bringing the message to tens of thousands of Bay Area viewers.

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/hillsborough/0401-protesters-say-oxycontin-is-too-strong

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/health/doctor %20jo/0331-dr-jo-should-oxycontin-be-banned

Posted by Helga Culbert on April 23, 2010 at 9:59am

Kerry Wolf

Infuriating article

We MUST respond to this EXTREMELY harmful and prejudicial article! ESPECIALLY if you live anywhere in PA, but even if you don't--please write to this journalist and protest this extremely inflammatory and inaccurate portrayal of methadone treatment. Contact info is at the end of the article. This is completely unacceptable.









Methadone gets its own beat on Girard Ave



Hayden Mitman

Star Staff





On a sunny morning last week, a patient from a methadone clinic in the Girard Medical Center stumbled down Girard Avenue.



He was dressed in a thick leather coat, heavy for the warm weather, and his movements were erratic.



He lurched, his feet moved at irregular starts and stops, his weight unsteady on his feet as he headed toward the Ramonita de Rodriguez Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library at 6th Street and Girard Avenue.



It was too early, and the library was closed. The man leaned against the building, his head nodded as if he were having trouble staying awake.



"Look at this one," said Officer James Bacon of the 26th Police District as the man joined two women in a conversation while they leaned against the library's facade.



It's a sight Officer Bacon, familiar with this particular patient, sees every day.



For the past year, Bacon, 59 - an officer with 22 years on the force - has been assigned a special beat through the district.



It's Bacon's job to monitor daily activity that occurs around the Goldman Methadone Clinic at the Girard Medical Center at the intersection of 8th Street and Girard Avenue.



And it keeps him busy.



Seven days a week, more than 700 patients from all over the city visit the clinic to obtain doses of methadone - a drug prescribed to those addicted to heroin and…
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Posted by Kerry Wolf on April 4, 2010 at 1:47pm

Helga Culbert

How can this be?

Yesterday local paper reported about the arrest of 46 people in a small county south of here for bringing Oxycotin pills to Tennessee from Florida. They buy them at a pain clinic while "pill shopping" and return with as many three bottle of pain pills with a street value of over $10,000.00. Read the article here if you like.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/feb/19/rockwood-police-rounding-suspects-pain-pill-probe/

Posted by Helga Culbert on February 21, 2010 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

Kerry Wolf

Why "Dr Drew" Drives Me Nuts

If there is one person currently on my list of people I can do without it's Drew Pinsky. For anyone who does not know, he is a celebrity hound doctor working in LA who specializes in addiction treatment (though I believe his actual area of specialization is Internal Medicine) and gets his ego fed by hobnobbing with drug abusing celebs. He used to give out sex advice on a radio show called "Loveline" and now he runs D list celebrities through a 21 day rehab on television in a show called "Celebrity Rehab" on VH-1. He has has three or four seasons of this trainwreck, and has also done a series called "Sober House" about the celebs in a halfway house, and yet another series called "Sex Rehab" where he tries to rehabilitate sex addicts, and so on.



Now to my point--Dr Drew is, in my personal opinion, loathsomely unethical, not to mention hideously negligent in patient care. Dr Drew has made it abundantly clear, in his website, TV shows, and his book, that he is a whole-hog 12 steps devotee and that he believes that NO ONE can recover from addiction without them. In fact, he stated on his website that he knew of NO ONE who ever had recovered without them. That kind of gross misstatement alone is heinous--even Bill Wilson knew that the 12 steps did not work for quite a few people, and he stated to the founder of methadone treatment that he wished they could develop an "analogue of methadone" for alcoholics, so that more people could find recovery. But not Dr Drew.



Dr drew is, in fact, 100% ANTI methadone treatment. Now, of course it is his right to have his own opinion about that. However, the advice and statements he makes to his patients evidence a strong prejudice founded NOT on science and evidence but on nonsense and ignorance.



For example, this season he has a patient who came to the show as a current methadone patient who had been taking 100mgs a day for six years. During this time, he had continued to abuse amphetamines/crack--as… Continue

Posted by Kerry Wolf on February 19, 2010 at 8:21pm — 3 Comments

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Please Come Visit:


I update it almost every day. Its about my journey through my son's heroin addiction.

Click the link above to get to my blog.

Posted by Barbara on February 18, 2010 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

Kerry Wolf

first post

I am a 45 year old married mom of 3, and I am a methadone maintenance patient. I have been on MMT going on 6 years now and it has saved my life!

I spent almost 20 years addicted to Rx opiates and even used IV heroin for a few months. I was once a RN but lost my license to my addiction. I have been through 13 different rehabs over that time period with no lasting success--until I found MMT.

My surprise that it worked so well, so fast, led me to start researching and learning more about this treatment. As a result I am now very involved in MMT advocacy work. I am a Certified Methadone Advocate, I administer two patient forums, teach orientation classes at my own clinic, and attend many conferences and lectures nationally to learn even more. I am the director of ARM-Texas and a Board Member of NAMA-Recovery and MSO.

Posted by Kerry Wolf on February 14, 2010 at 4:50pm — 1 Comment

 
 
 

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