| Are Internet Boot Camps in Our Future?
Is this a fate that awaits us? Boot camp to break cyberspace addiction. In South Korea, where 90 percent of homes are connected to the Internet, camps that are part rehab, part extreme games, are growing in number, alongside a network of 140 Internet-addiction counseling centers, in addition to treatment programs within hospitals. The "Jump Up Internet Rescue Camps" started this summer in a country where online gaming is a professional sport and young people hang out at Internet parlors called "PC Bangs," the New York Times reports. The camps get four to five applications for each spot. Once there, participants are denied computer access and can only use their cell phones one hour a day to make sure they are not playing online games via phones. What they do is exercise, ride horses, do outdoor activities to connect with the natural, real world.
Homeless program given go-ahead
The Community Fairweather Lodge will be located on Grandview Road. A new support program aimed at re-integrating homeless individuals into the community got the go-ahead Wednesday to set up in a residence on Grandview Road. The Community Fairweather Lodge Program, a national organization that has more than 90 lodges, or residential centers, in 16 states, will be located in a house at 817 Grandview Road in front of the Regional Counseling Center. After having been assured by program coordinators, working under a grant from the state and county, that the Fairweather Lodge was not "just a fancy name for a group home," the Oil City Zoning Hearing Board agreed that the operation would meet the zoning definition of "professional services." That would make the facility allowable in an area zoned C-1, or commercial,which applies to the Grandview site.
Addicts flock to emergency rooms seeking quick fix
The man told Dr. Randal Wojciehoski he had fallen through the floor and landed on his back while remodeling his sister's home. Now he needed something to manage the pain. It sounded plausible but strangely familiar, so before prescribing the man painkillers, Wojciehoski scanned his old records. Then he remembered -- the same man, using a slightly different name, had come to Wojciehoski two years earlier, peddling the same story. Perhaps it was simply bad luck and weak floorboards -- for Wojciehoski, however, the experience was a textbook example of the growing problem of prescription drug addicts, sellers or weekend users ransacking emergency rooms to fraudulently obtain prescription drugs. "It's just a huge issue," said Wojciehoski, an emergency department physician at St.
Drug Rehab Leading Public To New Way of Thinking
Unique medication-free program is getting results in 2007. Canadian, OK (PRWEB) November 4, 2007 -- Anyone caring for or treating an addicted person knows that depression and drug or alcohol addiction frequently go hand in hand. Some traditional medical and psychiatric based programs diagnose and treat the depression an addict is experiencing as the root cause of the person's drug or alcohol problem. Narconon Arrowhead, one of the country's leading drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, has taken a new position that depression is more often a symptom that shows up after a person becomes addicted. "Most addicts are in a deteriorating or poor state of health. While high, they are in a euphoric, painless state of mind, numb to the damage drugs or alcohol are doing to their bodies.
Drug overdose killed student
Friends and family of senior Angela Marsh are concerned she will be remembered negatively after an autopsy report concluded a combination of drugs caused her death.
The 21-year-old biology major was found dead in her home Sept. 9. The preliminary cause of death was reported to be heart failure.
The autopsy found that Marsh died of complications from pain medications oxycodone, methadone and fentanyl and the drug meth, said Lt. Dennis Cooley of the Butte County Coroner's Office.
The amount of each drug was small, but combining the four caused Marsh's death, he said.
Pain medications depress the central nervous system, and meth is a stimulant. The opposing effects can be fatal.
"It's unfortunate that this is how she'll be remembered," said Amber Millan, Marsh's roommate of more than one year.
Adoptions celebrated at court ceremony
About two years ago, 14-year-old Michael Redmond's home situation was what his uncle and now adoptive father could only describe as very bad. He was exposed to drug and alcohol abuse, said his adoptive father, Tom Moore, and was struggling with his grades and with anger problems. Now, Moore said, Michael has seen the other side of family life. He's gone from failing in school to being a straight-A student, is close to his family and has made huge strides with his anger problems. "It's like the next step in Michael's life," said Moore, of Warrenton. "For him, it's a new beginning." "I think it's a good thing," Michael said of his adoption. "I've grown a lot." Michael's recent adoption was one of five that were recognized at the 4th Annual Greater Prince William Area National Adoption Day Celebration that was attended by families, judges, social workers and others Saturday morning.
Nature, not nurture to blame for aggression
Young children have an innate tendency to be aggressive that they have to learn to control in their pre-school years if they are to avoid being violent and antisocial later in life, an expert in childhood behaviour has found. Toddlers are born with aggressive instincts rather than learning to be violent from their surroundings. What they do have to learn, however, is how to control this instinctive behaviour in the critical years before they start school, Professor Richard Tremblay of the University of Montreal said. "Physical aggression in children is a major public problem," he said. "It is not only an indicator of aggression in adulthood, but is also leads to other behavioural problems such as alcohol and drug abuse, violent crime and continues the cycle of abusive parenting. "Developmental studies show that infants aged three to four years old are more physically aggressive than adults," Professor Tremblay added.
Holy Smoke!
Summary continued: .... I will start with an explanation of my own link to Maine; i.e. Dixmont. Keep in mind that this article contains two of the greatest creations of the English language; i.e. the "Fear God.." paragraph and The Closet along with the songs that make the whole world sing: Dixmont 1981: Without knowing who they were, I had fled the Bush Nazis in Tompkins County in my 68 Power Wagon and set up shop in Dixmont. Without knowing the words to King of the Road, every single night at sundown, it was "destination, Bangor, Maine!" It was the summer of two Cheech and Chong films that have probably been concealed as the highest grossing films of all time. It was my second year growing smoke, and I perfected it, producing a batch of "rainbow butterscotch", Holy Smoke that survives to this day.
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