“The voice on the other end of the phone was doing a lousy job of sounding hopeful. “I’m not going to let one day of bad judgment ruin four good years [of sobriety],” Doc Gooden said, surely realizing what an empty proclamation that was.

Cliffside Malibu, an exclusive rehab clinic on the Malibu coast, has long been a leading light in the California treatment community. Now, the center is pleased to announce its renewed commitment to providing clients with the utmost elegance on the road to wellness.

Drug rehab in Los Angeles is always an arduous experience. Those clients who complete the process successfully are invariably the ones who receive the best possible support along the way-which means that the most effective facilities offering drug rehab in Los Angeles are always those which pamper their residents. In the end, there’s simply no better way to build a solid foundation for sustainable recovery.

Those principles, in turn, comprise the core of Cliffside Malibu’s treatment philosophy.

With its expert caregivers and posh amenities, Cliffside Malibu is a world-class institution. The center has always catered to an elite clientele. Now Cliffside is expanding its mission, with the goal of delivering the most luxurious care on the planet to those individuals who need it. At Cliffside Malibu, nothing less than excellence will ever be acceptable.

“A Malibu drug rehab program is most successful when rehab patients feel wholly comfortable in their healing environment,” said Cliffside Malibu Program Director. “It’s our role as a luxury drug rehab California center to meet each and every need of our residents, with everything from gourmet meals to high thread-count sheets. We believe that our record of success proves the effectiveness of our strategies.”

Cliffside’s competitors, meanwhile, can hardly speak so glowingly about their own treatment efforts.

It’s easy for a center offering drug rehab in Los Angeles to pay lip service to the importance of luxury. It’s harder for that facility to live up to its own standards. The unfortunate truth is that many of the most “exclusive” facilities offering drug rehab in Los Angeles appear far more elegant in their advertising brochures than they are in real life. As should go without saying, these institutions routinely fall short of the recovery promises they make to their clients.

Cliffside administrators, for their part, insist that that sort of failure is unacceptable.

“Rehab is literally a matter of life and death,” said Cliffside’s Clinical Director. “At Cliffside Malibu, we understand exactly what’s at stake for our clients, and we make every effort to ensure the success of the healing process. To do anything less would be a breach of our personal and professional obligations.”

It’s no secret that addiction is a devastating disease. The good news here is that that devastation doesn’t have to be the end of the story. The rehabilitation experts at Cliffside Malibu have proven themselves capable of helping clients heal from the inside-out. As the center’s successful graduates have learned firsthand, no outcome could ever possibly be more important than that one.

“A lot of this problem is our own doing,” said John Postlethwaite, who has been in law enforcement for almost 40 years. “Without the demand, there wouldn’t be a supply…..With the economic situation and high unemployment, especially in southern Ohio, some people take the easy way out and use the pills to supplement their income,” Postlethwaite said. “They get a prescription for 60 pills and then sell half of the pills to pay their rent, bills or put food on the table.”

Postlethwaite said there were 45 doctors in 2008 in one Florida community that prescribed 9 million doses of Oxycodone.”That creates pill mills and doctor shopping,” Postlethwaite said. “In 2008, we had 85 pain clinics just in Broward County in Florida that we knew were supplying to Ohio residents. People in Ohio are getting as many prescriptions as they can and bringing them back to sell.”That adds up to a lot of money.Postlethwaite said prescription pills have become a cash crop for those who need money and can get the pills.

The Mexican drug cartels have been funneling large amounts of drugs to Ohio for distribution as well.

For example, the Muskingum County Sheriff’s Office pulled over a tractor-trailer carrying 921 pounds of marijuana on Feb. 20, near the 148 mile marker on Interstate 70. The marijuana, valued somewhere between $1 million to $2 million, was one of the largest drug busts in Muskingum County history. The driver, Prisciliano Rojas, 44, of Texas, was charged with one count of possession of marijuana and one count of permitting drug abuse. He is in the Muskingum County Jail on a $150,000 bond. But, how many other trucks and drivers are lined up to take his place. The cartels are so well insulated, it’s hard to penetrate them and bring the leaders to court.

 Lt. Tom Brown, of the Central Ohio Drug Task Force, said a major pipeline from Mexico is right next door, in Licking County and the Columbus area.  It takes time to gain information about a drug trafficker and then make an actual arrest.”It’s not an overnight thing,” Lenhart said. “It takes a lot of work, a lot of manpower, resources and money.”

 Lenhart agreed with Postlethwaite that society as a whole needs to correct the drug problem. “I blame a lot of neighborhoods for allowing the drug use to go on. People are either afraid of retaliation or they just seem to turn a blind eye. People need to get more involved and more pro-active instead of calling us and expecting something to happen overnight. That’s just not how it’s done. An investigation can take days, weeks or months. But some people would rather ignore the situation than do something about it.”  Lenhart said if he lived in a neighborhood where drugs were being sold, he’d be screaming.   “But some people just seem to let it go by,” he said.

 Muskingum County Prosecutor Michael Haddox said drugs always will be a problem until the vast majority of people decide that using illegal drugs is morally wrong.  

Law enforcement officials said they will continue to fight the battle of drugs — be it prescription abuse or illegal use — as best they can, but they can’t do it alone.   “It takes everyone to be involved,” Postlethwaite said. “Everyone.”

Source: Portions of an article from Zanesville Times by Kathy Thompson

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• 78 percent of violent crimes;
• 83 percent of property crimes; and
• 77 percent of public order, immigration or weapon offenses; and probation/parole violations.

This study also found that compared to non-substance involved inmates, substance-involved inmates are not only likelier to be re-incarcerated, begin their criminal careers at an early age, and have more contacts with the criminal justice system, but they are also:

• Four times likelier to receive income through illegal activity;
• Twice as likely to have had at least one parent who abused alcohol or other drugs when they were children;
• 41 percent likelier to have some family criminal history;
• 29 percent less likely to have completed at least high school; and
• 20 percent likelier to be unemployed a month before incarceration.

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“By the time your child becomes a teenager, poison dangers aren’t as straightforward as keeping the cleaning supplies locked up. Drug abuse becomes a danger, and the substances in your home that you rarely think twice about can become lethal drugs to your tween or teenager.

Poison centers refer to inhalant abuse as “the silent epidemic” because most people do not know about the dangers of inhalants and abuse often goes unnoticed. The American Association of Poison Control Centers, as part of the upcoming Poison Prevention Week, wants you to be aware of these dangers, and offers the following tips aimed at preventing inhalants from becoming an epidemic that infects your home.

Inhalants can be found in homes, schools and offices. More than 1,000 products can be inhaled for intoxicating effects. They are available, low cost and in legal products rarely thought of as poisonous. First, be aware that they exist.

Common inhalants include gasoline products, paint remover, glue, “White-Out” correction fluid, markers, spray paints, medial anesthetics, room deodorizers and whipped cream dispensers.

Inhalants provide an immediate “high” that can last 1 to 5 minutes, sometimes longer. The effect is similar to drinking too much alcohol and causes mind altering effects. Tell your children that they can be lethal. Abuse of inhalants can cause “sudden sniffing death” even the first time inhalants are used. They can lead to irregular rhythms in the heart, which in turn may lead to cardiac arrest. The chemicals can take the place of oxygen in the blood and may also cause asphyxiation. Inhalant abuse can cause suffocation by interfering with breathing or a person could choke. Long term inhalant abuse may cause the loss of normal function in arms, legs and loss of bladder and bowel control. Inhalants destroy brain cells. A person could have an allergy to the product causing an allergic reaction. Finally, most of these chemicals are fire hazards and could cause a fire or an explosion.

Signs that your child may be using inhalants include a drunk, dazed appearance, chemical smells on the breath, body or clothing, red eyes, runny noses or nose bleeds, personality changes, slurred speech, and an unusually large collection of paint, spray cans, room deodorizers or other inhalant products.

Talk to your kids about inhalant abuse. Tell them inhalants are poison and do not belong in the body, but don’t teach them how to abuse inhalants or show them which products to use. Talk about their “toxic effects,” instead of “getting high.” And don’t call them inhalants 0×150 call them chemicals or toxins. Not talking to your kids about inhalants could be a fatal mistake.

For more information about inhalant abuse call your poison center at 1-800-222-1222 or contact the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition at www.inhalants.org.

The American Association of Poison Control Centers supports the nation’s 60 poison control centers in their efforts to prevent poisoning. Poison centers offer free and confidential services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

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Many doctors are reviewing the way they should interact with their wealthy and famous clientele as a result of the charges that have been filed against Conrad Murray. The fame of the patient can interfere with the traditional Dr. patient relationship.   Many times when a doctor is treating a famous individual, the traditional relationship is reversed and boundaries are blurred, with the celebrity dictating what drugs or care they want and using their allure, threat of banishment and lucrative pay as means to get their way. Elvis  Presley was another example of such a patient.

Even if Murray does no jail time at all, this case will impact many, according to Dr. Drew.  ”Doctors are very sensitive to their professional status being questioned. They would rather go to prison than to be publicly humiliated like this, with their ability as a doctor being questioned.”

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Many mistakenly believe that  if you drink caffeine with an alcoholic beverage the stimulant effect of the caffeine counteracts the depressant effect of the alcohol, and that is not true.  Caffeine simply reduces the sleepy feeling caused by alcohol. This condition, described as “wide awake and drunk,” can lead to increased levels of drunk driving.   Bar patrons who mixed alcohol and energy drinks left the bar later, drank for longer periods of time, and were four times more likely to say they planned to drive within the hour, compared to those who drank alcohol only,

In a recent study,  people who said they’d been drinking alcohol mixed with energy drinks were three times more likely to be drunk than those who consumed alcohol only. The average breath-alcohol reading for those who consumed alcohol and energy drinks was 0.109.

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In this study adults smoked 10 or more cigarettes per day for one year. The smokers who used nicotine patches for the entire study,  were about twice as likely to quit smoking as those who used nicotine patches for eight weeks and then received placebo patches for the remainder of the study.  Standard therapy,  as recommended by manufacturers  is eight weeks.

After one year, participants in   the extended-therapy group who relapsed,  were more likely (29.1 percent) to report periods of smoking abstinence lasting more than seven days in a row during the year than those in the standard-therapy group (21.3 percent).

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Drivers who have previous drunk driving convictions make up approximately one-third of the drunk driving problem in America.  On Average, these offenders have driven drunk 87 times before they are caught and convicted.  An interlock device allows a drunk driver to drive to work or school and provide for his or her family.  The only
thing a convicted drunk driver can’t do with an interlock is drive drunk.

Requiring these drivers to have an interlock device on their car after their license is reinstated would help keep our families safe from these drunk drivers.  Interlock systems have been shown to reduce repeat offenses by 64 percent while the device is on the car.

More than 50 percent of drunk drivers continue to drive on a suspended license.  Ignition interlocks should be required for all convicted DWI offenders, not discretionary as fewer than 10 percent of offenders who
are offered a choice between installing such a device or receiving a license suspension elect to enter an interlock program. Keeping our roads safe must not be optional.

Please join me in requesting your senators to back this bill by filling in the form on the MADD website .

  Please visit their website for more ways to help get drunk drivers off of our roads until they get rehab themselves.

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