Be Drug Free. Don’t believe the propaganda – Don’t believe the profiteers’ dogma. Drugs are not for your well being, Drugs are known to cause your losing. Look. See –the lives its ruined. Ask a user if he’d wished he hadn’t. Ask an ex-addict why he stopped. Ask a addict if he wished he were [...]
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Hi Brad,I do have a few pieces that with a little search I should be able to locate. Not everything has been saved. The poem which I mentioned called “Addict” was written in mid 1970s based upon real experience of student Jim M leaving course. Later that afternoon I found him at Norm’s Grill in [...]
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(TO THE HOMELESS AND “STREET PEOPLE”; WITH UNDERSTANDING) I saw him there sitting, just he and his bottle. In a stairwell he was, for again another stay. No one knows better the sidewalks than he. Or those feelings… of loss and the dulling sensation daily from his drink, than he, this castaway. The streets feel [...]
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It was his 18th birthday; drinking age for his province. “Finally, I can get drunk legally!” he thought. He celebrated with his friends and drank more beer and rum than he ever had. He wanted to drive home but couldn’t walk. He argued with his friends about who should drive. They weren’t in better shape [...]
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There are probably over 300 graduates of the Narconon program in Ontario. There also are graduates in Alberta, in Quebec, in British Columbia and Manitoba. Their ages range from 19 to 60. These are persons who had at one time or another needed addiction treatment. Some were cocaine users, some heroin, crack, crystal meth, oxycontin [...]
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A friend once told me, “Brad, you haven’t lived until you’ve worked in Drug Rehab.” I didn’t know what he meant until I did stay and work at a Drug Rehabilitation centre for weeks at a time, several times. There is the story of the client there who smiled and shook my hand and told [...]
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Do you know anyone who seems addicted to Alcohol? Cocaine? Pain killers? Or they might be using another prescribed drug which is supposed to relieve the withdrawal symptoms of some different drug but then stay on that prescription one instead. These are common addicts and often live in your own household, or in your family [...]
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John Crown is a wonderful man, or was when he first married. Now he does cocaine, crack, drinks too much and abuses his wife; verbally and physically. Anna however never forgot the man she originally married; how kind he was to her, in the past, and so much fun too, back then. She loved her [...]
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