All Posts Tagged With: "addiction"
Celebrity Medicine, The AMA, Ethics, and Health Care Reform
What is going on with medical practitioners and celebrities? Michael Jackson is just the latest in an ever increasing list of celebrities who have died at the hands of their enabling medical doctors. Where is the American Medical Association (AMA) on this issue? Is the AMA the go-to-guy for advice on health care reform?
This is [...]
Tobacco Legislation – Save Our Children
President Obama signed legislation today placing tobacco under the authority of the Food and Drug Administration. Well, finally!. Nicotine is a drug; a very powerful drug. Nicotine should be regulated, as much as heroine or cocaine or methamphetimines.
Actually, regulation is not the correct word, or correct response to nicotine. Nicotine has an addiction rate of [...]
Dead Body Found in Woods
I am cleaning my office. Stacks of paper, piles of books, new book shelves – there is not enough room. So I am compelled to throw something away. This ritual is not done arbitrarily – I have to look at everything and rethink the value. I came across an old news clipping. It has no [...]
24Dec2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
Drug Court – Systemically Flawed
A quick check of the court briefs in the local newspaper gives startling evidence of losing the war on drugs. The paper reported six people sentenced to prison – all for drug charges – five methamphetamine and one cocaine. We are talking about rural northwest Missouri.
The first Drug Court was established in Dade County Florida [...]
Are Drug Addicts Worthless?
Well, that depends. While using drugs that addict is worse than worthless. While using an addict’s worth is in the negative numbers – they will lie and steal – to any one, any where, any time. When not using they return to their normal human pain-in-the-ass personalities. They are normal in the sense that humans [...]
20Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
The Criminal Paradigm, Fiddling around on the Roof
We were watching the old Topol character in Fiddler on the Roof. He portrays a man who struggles with tradition, struggles with the idea of changing ideology, struggles with changing his cultural prejudices. The movie is so universally accepted because all people relate to changing times and changing cultures, and the gut wrenching emotion those [...]
7Oct2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 7 comments | Continued
Sex Addiction – Real or Not? (Video)
CBS has done a nice job reporting on actor David Duchovny’s recent admission to a rehabilitation facility for Sex Addiction. My question is the same as most – Is Sex Addiction a legitimate addiction, or a legitimate mental illness, or both, or what?
This writer believes that Obsessive Compulsive disorders are real, they are destructive, and [...]
Addiction Humor
So what is funny about getting drunk or high on drugs? Just about everything – if you are observing someone else.
These two comedians, Robin Williams and Bill Cosby, are very funny because they are so accurate in their depictions of people on drugs. We laugh because we recognize ourselves and others in their comedy routines.
Robin [...]
Ron Paul endorses drug addiction
Son,
We have comments from Ron Paul supporters that compare laws against marijuana to prohibition against alcohol. These folks, and Ron Paul, fail to understand the trauma of modern drugs. The real sadness is that Ron Paul is a physician – and he seems to turn a blind eye to the problem of a pandemic illness [...]
Ron Paul, Marijuana, Government
Son,
Ron Paul takes huge leaps of logic. There is a fundamental problem with his libertarian philosophy. That philosophy ignores the inter-dependence of modern society. Centralized government must take a larger role in a world where individuals States can no longer stand alone – Marijuana crosses the State borders like the wind. No one State can [...]
Candidates on Medical Marijuana
Son,
How do we reasonably address issues of medication when we don’t understand the illness or the treatments? The candidates for President are asked to take positions on the legalizing of marijuana for medical treatment of a variety of illness. My own position has been that there are better medications to threat the same problem. I’ll [...]
Alcoholism and Drug Addiction – diseases
Son,
Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, is a disease. The Fireside Post has many articles on addiction. We should be clear that we are talking about a pandemic disease. Here are some sticking points – is addiction self induced? Is addiction merely criminal behavior? Is addiction a moral dilemma – a sin of Biblical proportions? The answer to [...]
Step 5 – Integrity
Son,
Step Five of twelve is a big boy – Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.
“Confession is an ancient discipline,” according to the AA 12 x 12.
We are not talking about a Sunday chat during half time of the Chiefs Game. Addiction [...]
Step 3 – Faith
Son,
Step Three of twelve begins a mental discipline. Made a decision to turn our will and life over to the care of God as we understood him.
So three frogs are sitting on a log, one decides to jump in. How many frogs are on the log? Three – he made a decision [...]
Step 2 – Hope
Son,
Step Two of twelve states clearly – and with confidence: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
That is a mouthful, especially after the brutality [...]
Step 1 – Honesty
Son,
Step One of 12 Step Programs states simply: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol (insert your own problem), that our lives had become unmanageable.
I have said before that there are consequences to belief systems. Well, what would be the consequence of believing that you had become powerless, that your life had become [...]
Pandemic disease, test and immunize
Son,
Drug Addiction is Pandemic. I made this case in an earlier post. Assuming this is true – what are we going to do about it. Pandemics are not new to the world. The past one hundred years have seen medical advances that have eradicated many pandemic illnesses. I think of Smallpox and polio – perhaps [...]
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Interesting post.
My experience with 12-step programs is that it's been more about finding the ways that you are already motivating ...
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Think you have Patrick Henry confused with Nathan Hale.
Thank You Joe - you are correct. The post has been ...