Ground-New-and-Labrador: Natuashish wants to make its cure (Radio-Canada via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

The 700 residents of the indigenous reserve vote to 51 % in favour of a payment which prohibits alcohol and drugs on their territory.

In Home Drug Rehab Possibilities(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

Is it possible to do in home drug rehab?  How could you do it if you had to?  What are the risks of in home drug rehab?  Does the concept of doing drug rehab at home even make any sense?  Lots of questions to be sure, and the answers depend on the individual and the specifics of each case.  If it were possible to do drug rehab in your own home, several key advantages would be there for some individuals.  If you are a parent with small children, it might be one of the only options available to stay with your kids.  Obviously another advantage would be cost.  Anything that can be acccomplished without travel and accomodation expense has to be less expensive.

To some degree in home drug rehab is probably a misnomer.  A more likely case for most people would be an outpatient program combined with a highly sctructured program and plan for staying at home for the times not spent in an out patient drug rehab program.  It is technically possible to drug rehab at your own home and not leave for 90 days, however it does require the commitment of some other people to come to your place of residence to help you examine and learn some of the skills you need to change.

The obvious thing that needs to be asked is, if it were possible to change and do drug rehab at home, why wouldn't the person have changed before?  The answer lies in where along the the path of addiction the person is.  Clients that still have some structure in their lives may benefit from an attempt at in home drug rehab.  External testing would be recommended.  Some external formal instruction would also play a large difference.  This means if you are still able to maintain your job, but are in danger of cossing the line to being out of control, maybe a in home drug rehab would work.  It you life is totally out of control, the odds of in home drug rehab being successful would be slim.  Can you make your home safe from drugs and alcohol?  How close is a supply of drugs and slcohol to your home?  If you can answer those questions and still be reasonably safe, then again you may be a candidate for in home drug rehab. ! The short answer again is that in home drug rehab is possible, but it is selective and difficult to do.

Seizure of 2, 5 tons cocaine by the French navy (Reuters via Yahoo! Current events)

A French warship intercepted at broad coasts of the west of Africa a trawler flying bast flag transporting 2,5 tons of cocaine, announced to Thursday a person in charge for the Office of the United Nations on Drugs and Criminality (UNODC).

More in a juvenile manner with deadly force excess against 54-Jaehrige drunk (AP via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

Suspect is to have been in the evening before in the brothel

It is not just a Book in Drug Rehab(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

We are proud to say we have finally launched our book, Make your last relapse, your last.  For a lot of people trying to deal with a drug and alcohol addiction this book will make a large difference.  I have to admit though, I have someone asked the strangest comment today.  They asked me if I was worried that the book would make it so people would not come to our rehab?  Seemed like a strange question.  If a book alone could help some people, that is wonderful.  However, there are people that need a drug rehab, so they can be safe, while they explore the book.

Addiction is a gradient.  No two people are exactly the same.  There are people whom a book will be all they need to move on in their life.  There are others whom a book and a drug rehab program will be needed as they need to have the space and privacy to figure it out on their own.  If addiction could be solved by a book alone it would not be the problem that it is in our society.  Our book will help.  Drug rehab will still be needed for those with a severe addiction.  Drug availibility and potency mean drug rehab centers are required no matter how good any book is.  I think people constantly underestimate addiction. If it were easy to change, clients would have done it already.  Drug rehab centers will exist for a long time, no matter how good any book is!

Heath Ledger passed close entering in detoxication in 2006 (Show Bizz Net via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

The consumption of drugs and alcohol of Heath Ledger was so harmful with its relation in love with Michelle Williams that the latter tried to make enter the actor in rehabilitation in 2006 brings back the US magazine Weekly in its new edition.

Dope: researchers develop a promising vaccine against the dependence (AFP via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

Researchers developed a promising vaccine against the dependence with drugs which prevents the human body from feeling the effects of drug, indicated one of them Tuesday to AFP.

Also unconscious signals can wake demands for drugs (DPA via Yahoo! Message)

San Francisco (dpa) - also unconsciously noticed signals can release the demand for drugs with addicted ones.

Addiction and Drug Rehab Not a “Life Sentence”(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

A lot of people view  addiction as a life long disease, that is progressive and unrelenting.  You are powerless over it and have to turn it over to a higher power.  This may not be true.  When you leave a drug rehab center you may actually be able to move past addiction for good.  A study recently published in the Canadian Journel of Psychiatry stated that many gambling addicts recover naturally on their own.  Addiction is not always progressive, and may have ebb and flow.

It is a behavioral problem that can be resolved with gathering the skills to behave in a different way.  Sound familiar?  It is something I have been writing about for a couple of years now.  Drug rehab should teach skillls.  Rehab is about learning, not about admissions of powerlessness.  It is about asking about what you need to learn and change in your life.  Then find the place that can teach it too you.  You can and will move past addiction.

Venezuela: tens of hostages retained in a bank by hold-up men (AFP via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

ALTAGRACIA OF ORITUCO (AFP) - Four armed people appointed Tuesday of tens of hostages in Venezuela in a bank of the State de Guarico (center), more than 24 hours after the setting in failure of their attempt at steering by the presence of a patrol of police force.

Venezuela: tens of hostages retained in a bank by hold-up men (AFP via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

Four armed people appointed Tuesday of tens of hostages in Venezuela in a bank of the State de Guarico (center), more than 24 hours after the setting in failure of their attempt at steering by the presence of a patrol of police force.

Britney Spears, junkie at 13 years? (News of stars via Yahoo! Current events)

The American singer Britney Spears would not have had the young jet set about which one often spoke. The uncle of the singer entrusted to Sun, the British tabloïd. Britney would have started to drink at 13 years and touching with drugs at 14 years.

Amy Winehouse troestet itself with "Some like it hot" (DPA via Yahoo! Message)

London (dpa) - Amy Winehouse (24) troestet itself during its drug withdrawal with the films of the Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, itself at the age of 36...

star TV - Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 22:15 o'clock - live with RTL presentation: Guenther Jauch (NewsAktuell/Ots via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

Cologne (ots) - outliers and road children: Which parents and educators to do can do Jenny are 17 and live on the road. In Berlin it sleeps under one...

Yardsticks and Measurements in Drug Rehab(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

In drug rehab there is definately a limited amount of time available.  People do not stay in rehab for long periods of time.  Most clients stay in a drug rehab center from one to three months.  To maximize the potential for change, it is wise to utilize all the available methods for improving the rate of change.  One of the more effective methods uses the value of measurement.  Could you imagine trying to lose weight without ever having a scale around.  How would you know what worked?  How would you stay motivated when changes visually occur very slowly. 

Drug rehab is very similar.  You will not see the changes visually for a few weeks at least.  Health and body changes occur at a slow rate.  Relationships improve at a slow rate.  Trust is rebuilt at a slow rate.  What yardstaicks can you use in a drug rehab center.  One obvious one is drug and alcohol testing.  As you stack up more and more negative tests in a row, it is proof of your commitment to and evidence of change.  Another useful one is depression indexes.  You may be feeling a little better, but how do you know what is really happening?  By taking a weekly mood index and regularily retaking it and comparing the results, you will be more accurately charting your progress.  This will allow you to alter your efforts as needed which will make for much more effective results.

You can also monitor the improvement in your physical fitness level as all drug rehab programs should have some component of getting back in shape.  Charting your hours of sleep and rating how easily you fell asleep the night before will also allow you to see your return to a normal sleep pattern.  The more things you can accurately relate to a number, the easier and more rapid your change.

Amy Winehouse takes its chance truely (DPA via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

London (dpa) - Amy Winehouse (24) made already modest progress in the first four days of its drug therapy.

Skirt producer Boyd remembers: From Dylan to the Volkswagen advertisement (DPA via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

Munich (dpa) - after the beautiful snow-white bicycles of the Amsterdamer Provos in the middle of the 1960er years has Joe Boyd to be not less beautiful of book over...

Marlon Brandos son Christian died (DPA via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

Los Angeles (dpa) - Christian Brando, the oldest son of the legendary actor Marlon Brando, died with 49 years.

Just Lock Them up instead Of Drug Rehab!(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

I was discussing drug rehab with a family a while ago.  To put it mildly there was a disagreement in the family about how to proceed.  Thie siblings wanted their brother to go into a drug rehab.  Which rehab and where, they could not decide.  They were a large family and have always been close.  Some saw the value of being close to the client with the addiction, others thought he should be far away to start over and resolve his issues and drug useage.

The father saw the world in terms of more black and white values.  He thought the son should be locked up for a year or two and with time to consider his punishment, he would change his ways.  Let me say first, I do understand the frustration of someone close to someone with an addiction.  Lying, deceit, theft, damage to relationships and property take place.  I will leave the decision about punishment to the courts.  What I want to make clear, is that if new skills are not learned to replace the ones the individual has now, behavior will not change. 

Maybe we need to change the name of drug rehab.  If we started calling it, life skill and stress management course so you do not damage yourself with self medicated drug use and worry, maybe everyone would get what we acually do.  Punishment does give people a new skill set.  They learn how to lie better, and steal with more skill, and fashion weapons out of combs.  Do any of those skills actually help someone change their life? 

Labelling someone, and admission of a problem publicly do almost nothing as well.  The number of people who have gone to an A.A. meeting ONCE and stood up and said, "Hi I'm Terry and I'm an alcoholic" is a staggering number.  Yet only 5% fo those people will stick around and change their life.  Only 1 out of 20!  Television and Hollywood make such a big deal out of "admitting you have a problem", but that has so little to do with the actual solution.  Do you really think someone stealing a T.V. and selling it for drug money actually thinks it is normal behavior and that they do not have a problem?  Locking people up makes us feel better.  It does nothing to the long term course of and addiction.

Heath Ledgers body is allegedly to Australia (AFP via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

The body in New York of the deceased of actor Heath Ledger is to be transferred into his Australian homeland.

Marlon Brandos son Christian at pneumonia died (AFP via Yahoo! Message)

Christian Brando, the oldest son of the Hollywood star Marlon Brando, died at pneumonia.

Empowered Drug Rehab Clients(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

Empowered is one of those words sometimes I do not like.  Comes across as sort of new age assertion type of thing.  What is an empowered client in a drug rehab center?  I think it may involve some of the following things.  Firstly they would know the rationale and evidence of the treatment they are participating in at a drug rehab center, and are comfortable with it.  They also know how to maximize the benefits they get in drug rehab.

Simple things like arriving on time and organized for their one to one counseling.  Write down your questions as they occur during the day. Then you will not have to remember them during your counseling session.  Write down things during the drug rehab groups that are confusing to you.  Again order them as to which are more important to you in your life.  Then proceed through the list with your counselor.

Do your reading before going to group.  Being familiar with the material will greatly aid in how much you gain from the discussion.  Simply by reading, you will understand any of the terms or lingo used.  Another simple thing to improve you results in drug rehab is to be sure to eat properly.  Have breakfast, even if you are not feeling great.  Coffee will not give you the energy to focus and learn in the morning.

Be polite in your requests and questions.  If you are at all acusatory in your approach, people will spend less time an tend to avoid you.  If you start with, "Sorry for all these questions, maybe I'm just having a slow brain day, would you mind helping me through them?", everyone will help you.  You may be able to get people to help only because you are paying and you can "demand" service, but you will never get the very best effort out of the other person.  Just be polite is a good rule.

Thank people for their help.  Even if they cannot get you the answer, thank them for their effort.  Let your conselors know when they did something that really helped you.  Everyone needs real praise for a job well done.  If you try most of the suggestions here you will gain much more than just putting in time at drug rehab.  It is your time and money, spend both of them wisely.

Drug and people dealer ring smash (AP via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

Tuttlingen (AP) the police of Baden-Wuerttemberg smashed an international drug and people dealer ring.

Aue: The law trusts me in the meantime (strip packing via Yahoo! Message)

Because of numerous disputed decisions in the criticism standing the citizens of Berlin Justizsenatorin Gisela of the Aue (SPD) term of office in its department considers itself recognition after well one year. Their procedure did not promote the popularity straight, but into many ranges of the law transparency was taken in, said of the Aue the "daily mirror".

The police force inquires into Amy Winehouse! (News of stars via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

After the publication by The Sun of photographs showing the British singer Amy Winehouse smoking of the ace, Scotland Yard opened an investigation and seized to it video orginale with the tabloïd. Amy Winehouse would be likely to join her husband, Blake Fielder Civil, behind the bars.

What would you have to become, to become that person in Drug Rehab?(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

How often in life do you get to start over?  How often do you get the chance to choose who and what you want to be?  When you enter a drug rehab center many people might view this as a negative event.  However is it a glorious chance to remake yourself in areas you have always felt you wanted to change.  The beautiful part of drug rehab is that nobody knows you.  It is a safe enviroment.  You can take some chances without permanent consequences.  If you have felt you whole life you wanted to be more social and connected to other people, why not be that person in drug rehab.  Go out and talk to everyone in the drug rehab center you are in.  If you seem clumsy at it, blame it on the detox and your head not being clear.  If you always wanted to be more of a leader in life, volunteer for everything at the rehab.  Ask for things you can do to assist in the drug rehab program.&nbs! p; Be an advocate for those who are withdrawn and quiet.  Ask fo rtheir opinion and voice it to the group, and let them know you value them. 

Hey if you are going to be a sober person, you get to choose what kind of sober person you are going to be.  It does not have to be just a non-using version of the old you.  It can be a whole new you with characteristics and traits you wish you always had.  Drug rehab for many clients is starting all over.  Learning life skills and learning to live in ways they may have never lived before.  The best part of staring over, is starting over.  Stop and think of the kind of person you would like to be in a drug rehab.  Then become that person.

Area of Kingston: A return to the normal (Radio-Canada via Yahoo! Current events)

The prisoners of Joyceville are not confined any more with their cell. Measurement had been taken after the death of the one of them, possibly poisoned by adulterated alcohol. Three other prisoners are in a critical state.

It is always Better than you Think in Drug Rehab(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

When thinking about change and trying something different like drug rehab, we all tend to look from a negative viewpoint.  There just seems to be a natural tendancy to drift to thoughts of all the things that could go wrong or have a bad outcome.  It is funny how as adults we can slip back to thoughts similar to when we were going to summer camp as a kid.  Will I fit in?  Will my room mate snore?  What if there are too many rules?  Will I like the food? 

The first thing to remember is that the drug rehab center has done this many times before.  They have earplugs for if your room mate snores.  They have orientation programs and buddy companions so that you fit in quickly.  They post rules clearly so you are never confused about what to do.  They have had "picky" eaters before.  The thing to remember is as much as we like to think we are unique, we are not.  Others have had the same problems before.  Most of the issues you might have about being fearful in going to a drug rehab have been dealt with a hundred times over.  Think of all the times in your life you worried about something that never happened.  Going to a drug rehab program is much the same.  It will be much better than you think.

Amy Whinehouse in cure of désintoxiaction (Topicality of star via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

The singer Amy Winehouse was allowed yesterday in a center specialized to follow a cure of detoxication

Amy Winehouse was allowed in cure of désintoxiaction (the Canadian Press via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

LONDON - the young British singer Amy Winehouse was allowed Thursday in a center specialized in order to follow a cure of detoxication, announced her house of disc.

Junk Science in Drug Rehab(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

Everyone would like a simpler solution to drug and alcohol addiction.  Drug rehab is certainly possible and successful in a large number of cases.  It requires a lot of work and commitment to change.  Because drug rehab is expensive and time consuming, nobody really wants to go and wants to spend the money.  This makes us open to things that seem to good to be true.  Actually when it comes to health in general we are all victims of one time or another of junk science.  What I am talking about is "loosely defined claims" made to look like science. 

Many health supplements play this game.  They mention lots of conditions and suggest a certain herb may be helpful, when there are no studies proving it has any effect at all.  The same thing happens is drug rehab.  Sometimes things are suggested and presented as science when there are no study proving the treatment any more effective than doing nothing.  Drug addiction is a complex problem and no one solution is effective on all clients in all situations.  Mant times treatment is suggested simply because that is the way the person suggesting the treatment got sober. 

Ask for treatment based on evidence.  Ask for a list of references backing up the form of treatment.  Look some of them up.  Junk science is long on story, but very short on real studies.

The military ombudsman is interested in the returning stress of the soldiers of Kandahar (the Canadian Press via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

EDMONTON - The military ombudsman inquires into the way in which the Canadian Forces are occupied of the soldiers reached of post-traumatic syndrome of stress (SSPT) with their return of Afghanistan.

Golf PGA- Woods Doping for controls (the Team via Yahoo! France Sport)

Tiger Woods approves the introduction of controls antidopage on circuit PGA, as from July 1, 2008

Maybe it is the Wisdom to know What to Change in Drug Rehab!(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

When pondering your life in a drug rehab center, unfortunately you cannot change everything in the world around you.  Everyone has heard the serenity prayer about knowing the wisdom to tell the difference between what you can change and what you cannot change.  I think there is more to it than just deciding what you can change.  I wonder if sometimes when dealing with an addiction in drug rehab , if we sometimes take the easy road out and say I do not have the power to change this.

However when we look at history many times truly great things have been accomplished by people who set out to complete a task, that by all accounts before they did it was impossible by the standards of their day.  So when looking at your future and deciding what to focus on, it might be wise to for the moment imagine all things are possible to change in drug rehab and your life.  Anything you really think is important is possible, anything.  Real wisdom may lie in the questions you ask about change.  "What things if change in my life will have the MOST impact on the quality of my life and those around me?"   It is never a case of if you can do something.  It is always a case of what are the reasons to do something.  If you get enough reasons, really good reasons to do something in and after drug rehab, you will find a way to make an impact in this area.

There is also the chance that in attempting to change the "unchangeable" in your life you will make all the other changes in your life to make it truly satisfying and great.  Here is what I mean.  Many great physicians and researchers in the last 100 years have been looking for a "cure" for cancer.  Many, especially in th first half of the 1900's made no significant impact on the outcome of cancer patients, for their whole live's work.  At best you could say their work allowed other's to move ahead and make discoveries.  Here is what may be important to remember.  In pursuing a great goal, they developed wisdom, patience, discipline, tenacity, self-sacrifice and a host of other skills.  Not a bad list from a result of NOT having the power to change something.

So if you are really concerned if you will ever have the power to change something ask this question.  "What will I gain and learn personally even if I ultimately do not succeed in changing this in my life?"  If the answer to this question is filled with positive things,  that you might not get any other way, then proceed, even is you do not have the power to change something.

Winehouses father: "do not take Amy firmly" (if via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

Amy Winehouses father Mitch asked the British police to arrest its daughter not after they take with drugs were filmed. Recently photographs had emerged, those the "Rehab" singer...

RWSBY Lil Wayne because of drugs arrests (DPA via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

New York (dpa) - RWSBY Lil Wayne (25) sits because of drug possession behind lattices.

Drug Rehab Success and Relpase the SAME as other Major Health Conditions(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

I found this in “Dispelling The Myths About Addiction, Strategies To Increase Understanding And Strengthen Research,” Institute Of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, 1997, pages 73-74.

“One of the most enduring myths about addiction is that treatment for these disorders is ineffective.'

"O’Brien and McLellan (1996) reviewed and compared treatment literature for addictive disorders and three common health problems – hypertension, diabetes, and asthma. Treatment effectiveness for addiction was defined as a 50% decrease in drug taking after 6 months. The literature reviewed showed treatment for alcoholism to be successful for 40% to 70% of patients; success rates for cocaine addiction were 50% to 60%, opioids 50% to 80%, and nicotine 20% to 40%.  Interestingly, review of studies relevant to diabetes, hypertension and asthma revealed that high proportions of these patients did not follow their physician’s advice and did not adhere to diet and other behavioral components of their treatment. For example, among patients with insulin-dependent diabetes, less than 50% adhered to their medication regimen and less than 30% conformed to their diet and other self-care requirements.  Less than 30% of patents! with asthma and hypertension were found to take their medication as instructed.  Noncompliance and other factors, according to the studies reviewed, resulted in 50% to 60% of hypertension and 60 to 80% of asthmas patients needing to be retreated within a year.

The comparability of these data argue that addiction is similar to these three common medical illnesses in that they all can be treated successfully in many patients, but none can be cured and all 4 often require retreatment.

Yet, there are important differences between addiction and these other illnesses in the perception of the public, insurance companies and physicians. Few would argue that retreatment for diabetes, hypertension, or asthma indicates treatment failure, or that treatment should be withheld from or denied to these patients when they relapse and their symptoms reoccur. Yet such an argument is commonly made about addiction.”

I find this is interesting considering the number of people who when they hear about my work for a drub rehab center, and ask me questions that start out with in a doubting tone, “And what is your success rate?”  How many people ask the same question to the physician or othe rhealth care provider, in the first line of a conversation…….hmmmm.   What do you think?

There is no avoiding Pain in Drug Rehab(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

We have gotten better at most things in the world over the last 20 years, and drug rehab treatment is one of them.  We are starting to understand human behavior at a level deeper than ever before in history.  We are also much better at changing patterns of thinking around addiction than before.  Cognitive Therapy is probably the most efficient vehicle to change thought patterns that has ever been developed.

There is however no free ride.  If you are looking for a drug rehab program that will help you change, but somehow you will experience no discomfort, no regret, no sadness, in other words no pain on the way to changing, you most likely will be disappointed.  Life is filled with these emotions.  People who never use drugs and alcohol and have lead fairly normal and successful lives still feel them. They are a part of life, every life. On some level it is the endless search for a pain free existance that is at the heart of all addiction, drug or otherwise.  It is the very cognitive distortions that keep us addicted, that are the basis of our endless running away from pain.  The first is the all or none thinkng that the pain and regret you are feeling will last forever.  Nothing lasts forever, pain included.  Plus there is the fortune telling and predicting of the future, that a life without drugs wi be boring and! painful.  Again, nobody is born with an accurate crystal ball for the future.  Learning to deal with pain in real life, sithout medication is an important part of drug rehab.  Don't miss it.

Video: Amy Winehouse taken smoking of the ace (Topicality of star via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

In this video one can clearly see the singer Amy Winehouse smoking of the ace on several occasions, after "having been sent" a mixture of ecstasy and Cocaïne.

Doherty files at its image (if via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

Pete Doherty wants to be image as drugs taking, bad boy from the world creates - because its call does not correspond to its true personality. The Babyshambles Rocker states that it completely...

We need Highlight Reels in Drug Rehab!(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

We need more good stories in drug rehab.  There is nothing as motivating as a good story.  Too bad we couldn't take a page from pro sports.  One of my favorite things to do is to watch the highlights of the best plays of the week or day.  Even if you are not into that particular sport, the highlights are always exciting.  Success breeds success.  Wouldn't it be great if there were a bunch of short clips we could put together about lives changed after drug rehab.  If people in rehab could tune in once a week and see the difference in those who came before them, think how motivating that could be!

It would also be so much more healthy to look at all the success stories, rather than one more story about Britney and Keifer and all their woes.  I just think we need some balance out there.  The only thing we seem to see in the news about drug rehab are those that are going to avoid legal issues and those who have went and failed.  I know bad news sells, but bads news can also keep people from hanging in there and pushing on to success when they are in a drug rehab program.  Maybe the guys who do the Intervention show could just have a 5 minute burst on each show of people who made the change.  It could be from drug rehabs all over the place, and people who were not even featured on their show.  So all you people out there who have moved past addiction, how about some comments on all the blogs out there.  Just a couple of words at he right time could make the difference in someone's li! fe.

Type Free Drug Rehab in Google?(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

My frustrating search for free and low cost drug rehab programs continues.  It is easy to see why those who absolutely need free drug rehab services continue to call from one place to another.  If you type free drug rehab as a search into google, the first page has no listings at all that are free.  There are four free drug rehab consultations.  There are toll free numbers.  There are rehabs that will make you drug free.  Apparently google is unable to sort out the actual drug rehab programs that might be free.  The second page of listings is not much better.  Two of the listings actually deal with free drug rehab, the other eight so not.  The rest are back to the free drug rehab consultations again.

The point I am trying to make here is that if google cannot find these resources with all their computing power, how is the average person with a severe drug addiction and few or no resources supposed to find them?  The only way I can see, is if we all start posting these places in our websites so they can be found.  If everyone with a website with material on drug rehab, gave a link or two showing where some free drug rehab programs could be found, then google and the other search engines could find them and a lot of pain and frustration from families in this situation could be prevented.  So if you know of some that I have not mentioned, come on, what are you waiting for?  Tell me, or somebody else.

Sorge um Amy Winehouse nach Auftauchen von Drogen-Video (AFP via Yahoo! Nachrichten)

A video, which obviously shows the British singer Amy Winehouse when smoking Crack, shifted its fans into large concern.

Pilules aux effets euphoriques : Santé Canada étudierait les effets du BZP (Radio-Canada via Yahoo! Actualités)

The ministry should consider the effects of a product contained in pills sold recently with the country, which imitates the effects of illegal drugs like the ecstasy.

Tranquilizer in hair of the dead Kevin proven (strip packing via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

In hair samples of the dead Kevin from Bremen beside drugs also tranquilizers were proven. That said a Gutachterin on Tuesday during the process because of homicide and abusing of protection-ordered against Kevins pulling father before the regional court Bremen. How the tranquilizers into the hair of the two-year one arrived, can be not finally clarified.

Powerful drug boss in Mexico arrested (AFP via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

In Mexico security forceses arrested a powerful drug boss.

You must Believe you deserve a Better life in Drug Rehab!(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

There are two battles in dealing with drug and alcohol addiction.  The first one involves getting someone into a drug and alcohol rehab center.  Getting someone to the place where they see the need to change and the belief that the drug rehab they have chosen can teach them the changes and skills they need.  The second battle involves the individuals definition of their own self worth. 

Many clients will sobotage their own efforts in drug rehab in the misguided belief that somehow they are not worth a great life.  Fortune telling statments like, "I'm going to screw up and relapse anyway, so why even bother?"  Or looking back at some of the very negative behaviors and deeds they have done in the past, they fear that "karma" will catch up with them and they are not going to be successful after rehab. 

The way out of this self sabotage is to point out they and everyone else, really has no ability to predict the future, either positively or negatively.  Nobody has the ability to accuately measure karma.  If they did, they would be very powerful and rich, and probably not in a drug rehab program.  Predictions and assumptions of failure and lack of worthiness are no different that tarot cards and crystal balls.  You deserve a better life, because you are trying to change.  Going to a drug rehab program is an act of courage and faith.  When anyone acts with courage and faith, they deserve a better life.

Fantasy in Drug Rehab and Addiction(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

Is there danger in letting your mind wander and imagine drug use?  If after attending a drug rehab program should you train your mind to quickly move on to other topics when you mind starts to imagine drug use?  A simpler question to ask might be what good things could happen by slipping into a fantasy of drug use?  That seems like an easier question to answer.  I guess someone could make a sort of remote arguement that in the fantasy you could make drug use painful or damaging and therefore promote sobriety, but I think really there is not a lot of good that can come out of these fantasies.

The real danger lies in that in fantasy, we always have control.  We never get caught.  We never get diseases.  We never get arrested.  Drug rehab is about remembering all these other possibilities.  Fantasy can be a preamble to a real relapse, so is it really worth the risk?  Any behavior that carries a real risk of relapse is just not worth it.  There are simple methods to stop a fantasy in it's tracks and stay focused on the path you chose in drug rehab.  Simply ask yourself a quality question.  "What one thing could I be doing now to make my life better, instead of dreaming about drugs?"  Or how about," What are three negative things that will happen if I experiment with drugs again?  This will stop any fantasy cold in it's tracks.  Play it smart, dream about things that really will make your life better.

The movement of guerrilla Colombian ELN releases nine hostages (Reuters via Worldwide Drug Testing News)

The Army of national release (ELN), second movement of guerrilla of Colombia, released nine captured hostages two weeks ago, announced the international Committee of the Red Cross.

Finding a Mentor after Drug Rehab Treatment(via Worldwide Drug Addiction News)

After you have completed a drug rehab program there are several things you may want to consider to keep up the change you started in rehab.  One of the most important is to find a mentor.  There are few things in life quite so important as finding the counsel of wise people you truly trust.

When looking for a mentor, you want to seek out people that already have the skills, life, family, and friends you would like to have in your life.  If someone has a large degree of skill and success in all these areas of their life, it was not by luck.  To have a good life and a balanced life, is a sign of hard honest work and commitment.

Mentors are people who are able to give you the best advice as they like and care for you, but are not so close as to have their judgment affected by any other agenda, other than helping you.  I am lucky to have such people in my life.  Life will always have a few storms along the way.  You path after drug rehab will not be perfect or smooth.  Mentors will help you stay calm and focused during such storms.  Their experience and confidence will be contagious, and will help you to stay on the goals and sober path you chose in drug rehab.  Just be open to finding a mentor, if you have faith and keep your eyes open, they will appear.