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                               LIFE IN ABUNDANCE

“The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned or “good,” but to be Radiant.

I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, sincerity, calm courage and good-will.

I wish to be simple, honest, natural, frank, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected – ready to say, “I do not know,” if so it be, to meet all men on an absolute equality – face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unafraid and unabashed.

I wish others to live their lives, too, up to their highest, fullest and best. To that end I pray that I may never meddle, dictate, interfere, give advice that is not wanted, nor assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people I’ll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant – to Radiate Life.” 

The above wisdom penned by Elbert Hubbard circa 1914, and written in the literate style of the time, still holds true to today, as it did in the yesterdays and will continue to hold true in the tomorrows to come. It is one man’s statement of the goodness which is near and dear to our heart of hearts. And it is a worthiness which we can seek to restore in our lives.

It is also a standard of measure by which we can recognize how far a fall from grace the use and abuse of drugs has been–for every individual trapped by it, for every family member or loved one whose heart has been broken by it, and for our culture itself which has been brought nearly to its knees by the depth and breadth of the damage and destruction of widespread drug use, abuse and addiction.

Where do we start to undo what has been done?  It has been said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. 

That first step to begin the journey out of the trap of drug abuse and addiction could be the firm and resolute decision to restore life in abundance.

Copyright 2009  Successful Rehab Services

June 9th, 2009

There are over 300 hardship exemption applications for recently opened up stores for medical marijuana in the city of Los Angeles.  That just means that they are trying to get permission to operate claiming that they will be hurt financially if they have to shut down.  That’s all it means. That is a small number in comparison to how many shops there are.  They stopped counting when it hit 300 by the way.  Its probably more.

Sunland Tujunga, a small township in LA (a population of roughly 66000) has 13 open and running medical marijuana stores.  There are two more still in the works.

These shops even open and run from houses on residential hoods. Apparently getting a prescription is easy and cheap on line.  One only needs to park outside one of these shops to observe who is going in and buying some POT.  It is NOT sick people.  Mostly young folks, some with really nice cars, tatoos, and metal things coming out of their body parts. :-D  Sorry, I could not miss the opportunity to throw in some humor.

BUT the Los Angeles City Council, specifically Reyes, and Zine, are stating that they have not heard much protest from their constituents so they don’t think that the public at large opposes medical marijuana shops.

Don’t know about you ….but I DO!!!  BIG TIME!!  I think most drug rehab folk would agree with me here.  It is a gateway drug.

Please write to ALL city council members today…..they are reviewing this issue this week.  Make it known how you feel about the proliferation of legal pot selling in your community.

Email now: 

Councilmember.Reyes@lacity.org

The same email address for all of them just insert their names:
Hahn      Zine      Cardenas      Rosendahl      Weiss         Wesson            Garcetti          
Greuel    Smith    Alarcon       Huizar    Parks

and Jan.Perry@lacity.org  and labonge@council.lacity.org

and while you’re at it mayor@lacity.org so the mayor hears it loud and clear too.

PLEASE DO THIS RIGHT NOW~!

Huge cyber hug to you ALL!!!!  Your communities thank you!  Your kids thank you.

Tomi Lyn Bowling

In order to understand a subject, and be able to think with and correctly evaluate the data of a subject, a person needs to know the definitions of the terms used in that subject. 

There are a few basic terms you will see widely used in the field of drug addiction and drug rehabilitation which you should know and understand well.  These are as follows: 

Addiction* - compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly : persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful.

Detoxification* - to free (as a drug user or an alcoholic) from an intoxicating or an addictive substance in the body or from dependence on or addiction to such a substance.

Drug* - something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation, or a marked change in consciousness.

Intervention* [intervene] - to interfere with the outcome or course especially of a condition or process (as to prevent harm or improve functioning).

A good understanding of the above terms will help you more safely navigate the sometimes rough waters of the drug addiction and drug rehabilitation fields.  Your understanding is vital in enabling you to make sound decisions as regards addiction and rehabilitation, and in choosing a rehabilitation program that will work for you, or a loved one.

* Those definitions with an asterisk (*) come from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.

                                                       

• First, you must gain a conceptual understanding of what occurs in a person’s life that leads them in the direction of drug and/or alcohol addiction to start with.

• Second, you must know what taking drugs and alcohol regularly does to a person physically and mentally, and how those physical and mental changes affect the person’s behavior and life style, and set the trap which an addict winds-up in.

• And third, you must learn what the most successful course of action to take is to successfully heal addiction.

California has long been a leader in the country for supporting drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs.  The landmark Proposition 36 was called the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 and was passed to allow non-violent drug offenders a chance at rehabilitation instead of incarceration.  Although it requires some adjustments to make it even more successful, it has shown for many years that sending addicts to a treatment center instead of jail saves money and reduces crime in our society. 

Of course, the key to all of this truly working is to find a successful drug rehab in California.  This is where we can help.  If you or a loved one has pending drug-related charges and are looking for California drug rehabs that work, then contact us today by calling 1-877-873-8532 now!