About 10 years ago the number of people who die from heroin and prescription painkillers were about 2,000 – 3,000 a year. Cocaine was slightly higher. But over the last decade, deaths from prescription painkillers have increased by leaps and bounds over heroin and cocaine each year. Anyone taking these pills should be made aware of the dangers and gotten into OxyContin rehab at the first sign of trouble. Any OxyContin rehab program can also help with other prescription painkillers.

In 1999, there were about 2000 deaths from heroin, a little more than 2,500 from prescription painkillers, and nearly 3000 from cocaine.

In 2000, they all remained about the same but in 2001 prescription painkiller deaths went up to more than 4,000. Over the next several years, heroin deaths didn’t really increase at all, cocaine gradually increased to about 6,000, and deaths from prescription painkillers climbed to a whopping 12,000 in 2007! The situation is even worse now. In 2008, the numbers had already climbed to nearly 15,000.

Some other startling facts:

• More than 70 percent of those who have abused prescription painkillers got them from a friend or relative who had a prescription.

• One in three young people aged 12 and older started abusing drugs by taking prescription drugs for non-medical purposes.

• A survey of teens said it’s easier to get prescription drugs than beer.

Lipitor, a drug used to lower cholesterol, used to be the most prescribed drug in the world. Sales in the U.S. reached $12.4 billion in 2008. Now, prescriptions for just one prescription painkiller – Vicodin and others containing hydrocodone – are twice that. And that doesn’t include OxyContin and several other prescription painkillers.

Why is this happening? Are more and more people in chronic pain? Not likely – since 70 percent of people who take these drugs get them from friends or family, and since even kids experimenting with drugs now start with prescription drugs.

No one is really escaping this problem, and until something is done to curtail the sales of the drugs, more and more people will die.

Do you know someone who is taking prescription painkillers? Do you know someone who is taking other drugs and could possibly experiment with prescription painkillers?

Get them into a drug rehab program as soon as possible.

These drugs are killing people because they’re dangerous. Don’t let someone you care about become one of the statistics.

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Wow. Wisconsin, one of the top ten states for drug use and infamously famous for its alcohol culture, has just passed a law making alcohol even more accessible. Is this going to lead to more people needing alcohol rehab? It’s very likely, since availability of drugs and alcohol is definitely a factor in whether or not someone uses them.

Statistics from other states show that if you reduce the availability of alcohol, you get fewer alcohol law violations like driving under the influence, as well a few incidents of risky sexual behavior and violence.

What does the new law (AB 63) change? Previously, gas stations, liquor stores and other establishments that offer alcohol for sale, were allowed to sell beer from 8 in the morning until midnight, and liquor from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. The new law allows these places to start selling all alcohol at 6 in the morning.

Apparently, the individuals in the government of Wisconsin are also caught up in the alcohol culture – although I doubt they’d be likely to hang out with the people who would show up at a gas station to buy booze at 6 a.m. Maybe it would be a good idea to force them to hang out with those people for a while. Then they can make a decision based on the effect their laws are actually going to have. Maybe they should spend a little time with the mothers, fathers, children, husbands and wives of these people. See what their lives are like. And then they can decide whether they want to facilitate that.

In an article in hrtnews.com, the writer said “It tells our youth the earlier in life you can begin consuming alcohol, the better.” Hey, it’s not just earlier in life, it’s also earlier in the day. Start drinking early, in every way.

What does this mean for parents and others who are concerned about drinking? That you have an even more uphill battle than you had before.

But no matter how many laws are passed, the best way to curb alcohol addiction and abuse is to educate your children about the dangers of alcohol and help them create a life that they want to live without getting drunk. In the end, it’s always up to the parents and the kids. But back up from schools, the government and other outside influences certainly help.

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Here’s a new twist on buying drugs online – nothing gets sent in the mail, you just listen. That’s right, it’s called ‘sonic drugs’, ‘digital drugs’ or ‘i-dosing’. If that sounds harmless, think again. Someone experiencing digital drugs is likely to want to try the real thing, says a frequent i-doser who is currently in drug rehab for the real thing.

Does i-dosing actually have an effect on the brain like real drugs do? Absolutely.

A brain imaging expert, who studied the effects of i-dosing on one person’s brain said he could definitely see the brain firing more erratically. He also said that the part of the brain associated with having seizures became more active. He said it’s troubling.

There are thousands of videos on youtube.com showing people’s reactions to sonic drugs. They are “twitching, screaming, appearing spaced out and confused.”

I watched several of them, and they look anything other than pleasant. I mean – this isn’t ‘music,’ it’s not kicking back to your favorite band, it’s electronic sound intended to stimulate certain reactions in the brain. And some of the reactions look really nasty.

Here’s what one video-poster had to say:

“My little brother tried the i-doser gate of hades because i was too scared to, and after about 15 minutes into it he started freaking out then he started balling his eyes out while he was still dosing.. but after a while he said “somebody help me” i turned off the camera and he ripped off the thing that was on his head and he was crying really bad i was hugging him trying to calm him down and he told me that a devil creature with horns was chasing him and pulled out a big knife and started stabbing his chest and took out his heart and held it in front of him. He only lasted 18 minutes though… THIS IS NOT FAKE”

Gates of Hades is one of the many i-doses you can listen to. You can also buy – that’s right, I said ‘buy’, minimum cost is about $7 a ‘hit’ – Hand of God, Death and others intended to mimic the effects of heroin, cocaine, and so on.

Can sound create that kind of effect? Of course – look at the scary movies you’ve seen. The thing that makes some of the scenes frightening isn’t necessarily what you see, it’s the sound track.

Same with romantic comedies. Does watching Tom Hanks walk through a park to see Meg Ryan make you cry? Nope. But it does if you have the right music playing. And, of course, if you’re susceptible to that sort of thing.

How about the Bourne movies? The soundtrack leaves you on the edge of your seat.

Those aren’t necessarily harmful. But when you tell someone to lie down, turn off the lights, and then shoot electronic sound waves designed to make someone experience ‘Death’, or ‘Gates of Hades’, that can also create seizures, you’re talking about something dangerous.

And it has nothing to do with whether or not the person will, later, take real drugs.

However, if the person i-dosing has a good experience – and, if they’re in really bad shape, even if the experience is bad – I can certainly see it leading to taking the real thing.

If you have kids, even kids in their late teens, early ‘20s, consider making websites that sell sonic drugs inaccessible on their computer. This new ‘high’ could be a bad trip. And if your kids are into drugs at all, get them into a drug rehab program asap. Get them to the point where they don’t want to experience those things, where they want to live and enjoy life without an altered mind.

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Another very good reason to do whatever you have to do to get someone using methamphetamine into a drug rehab program: I know it sounds absolutely unimagineable and impossible, but a guy was arrested last week for trying to sell his 8-month old baby girl in a Walmart parking lot. He wanted the money for drugs – methamphetamine. He was asking for $25. The two women he offered the child to called the police.

A few years ago, his young son was taken from him because police found a meth lab set up in one of the bedrooms of the house.

Believe it or not, the judge has the option of sentencing this guy to 2, 4 or 6 years. You would think that someone who has already had one kid taken away and tried to sell another would get a little more time than that. Imagine what could have happened to those kids.

The mother and father said they smoke methamphetamine in the house – have you ever smelled it? Do you know how toxic that is in the air the baby breaths? – and the mom was also breast feeding three times a day. So, the meth goes right from the mom’s body to the baby’s.

The chief of pediatrics from a local hospital said that “babies who ingest  breast milk tainted with meth can experience seizure, strokes, learning disabilities, psychosis and even death. Environmental exposure can leave a child with respiratory problems and in danger from being in the care of parents under the influence of the psychosis-inducing drug.”

Babies and older children being exposed to meth in the house happens every day.

This incident – selling your child for drugs – might sound unusual, but it probably happens every day. I personally know of an instance of an attempt to sell a 6-year-old girl for drugs – her mother did that. Fortunately, the father found out about it immediately and did something about it.

This is the world of drugs. This is, especially, the world of methamphetamine.

Methamphetamine drives people crazy. Really, I’m not kidding. People change so much on methamphetamine they become nearly unrecognizable physically, and they do things that they would never, ever, in a million years consider doing if they weren’t on meth.

Keep this info in your arsenal to fight your own personal war on drugs – with your kids, friends, and others. Let me know how dangerous this drug really is, and get them into drug rehab fast.

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