Overdose Prevention Centers Allow Drug Use?

Overdose prevention centers, where people go to safely use drugs?  This may be the turning point in practical rehabilitation by first preventing deaths.  Mind you first that the estimated weekly drug overdose numbers in the US are nearly 2,000 people a week.... think about this...285 people died today of drug overdose.   Today.   What we are doing is not working.   So why not overdose prevention centers?  

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I understand the controversy in opening overdose prevention centers in terms of "enabling."  But the reality is, abstinence only doesn't work for many (and it may be nearly impossible without gradual - years long reductionist steps with some drugs - the ones most quickly killing folks. Inpatient treatment centers cannot keep patients long enough and recidivism is very high - with low long-term success rates. 

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Across so many different data sets and populations, when people are supported in "healthier options," when care is comprehensive in multi/interdisciplinary teams, when substance use interventions are not specialty limited/targeted, when insurance does not limit services (this happens in part because insurance simply cannot cover all that is needed in drug addiction cases), when patients are able to find life satisfaction (via the life satisfaction model), and when basic needs including food, clothing, housing, water and electricity are not in the day to day crises' of dependent people  - users leave drugs and thrive.  

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I hope you will read the entire article here regarding overdose prevention centers ... and then after you've read the full article, give the last paragraph a minute or two to resonate. A drugs only,  people only,  abstinence only,  specialists only approach ... none of these are the "only anything" in finding a practical solution to the people who are dying if an overdose right now,  as I write.  

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The final paragraph of this article adds things that patients will better hear when they are no longer neglected, punished, shamed, looked down upon and morally "held accountable for their 'choice'  ... and when users learn that they can be free to live (and not die) they can begin to walk. In this story, the heart of the matter is not only overdose prevention. It is the full bio-psycho-social provision included as an 'ancillary service' in the OPC approach that is the magic. Oddly, allowing safe use, opens minds to seeing a way to live - paradoxically in OPCs where 100% of overdoses are stopped before death.  From here, lives, from the bottom up, can move to living, as more valuable than buzzing away.

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Thank you Yahoo News, for giving this story the full report!

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 https://www.yahoo.com/gma/why-opioid-overdose-prevention-programs-151445902.html

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"There's a way that sharing a struggle or a big big challenge that you've carried for years ... based on good intentions both carried and shared ... opens the way for a sharing of the reality of life ... where love can just grow stronger.  Your story,  shared achingly and lovingly created something unintended or certainly unknown until you shared it."  

-Kurt LaRose 

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When we the people are equal policies will change. A therapist offers an aggravated view on inequality

The idea that people like me are paying more in taxes than my rich democrat and my rich republican peers, fellow (albeit a corprorate fellow to which I am not) business owners and even the senators and representatives of a career (multi term) driven political and governmental employee base is not news at all.  The conversation about the tax code is cyclical and potentially a distracting void that repetitively goes no where.   Why? With 60,000 plus pages the tax "code" has a benefit hidden somewhere for almost all of us.  

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If the tax code were actually changed to what would be "fair and equal" we all become equally accountable for cleaning up this monstrosity of legalized money moving driven frankly by .... wait for it .... BANKS!  If you give the article (which is really not news, it's an editorial) a read that one liner about loans that help people avoid taxes ... that's kind of a big big deal.  And those of you who know me will not be surprised to hear me say banks are also the ones who drive what funds health insurance ... and the only people with good health insurance in the US might be politicians ... or those richer citizens who can afford to buy supplemental policies.  Let me stay on task here ... 

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A culprit in the tax code - a big big big one ... are banks.   

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While I am quite thrilled at the very open view that this author takes,  looking at the tax issue from all sides (and taking no side at all) - the big "miss" in her summary are the large non-profits - who also do not pay taxes and the mammoth language of a 60,000 page document called the tax code.  Do you know how many lawyers and accountants and bankers are needed to make that kind of money movement work and for it to also still be legal?  ALLOT!

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So we can keep looking at the rich who are cheating or give them a moral voluntary compasss to "trust" or even give them an out (like Warren Buffets 99% philanthropy donation upon death defense - uhhh to non-profits?).  We can keep talking about a supposedly misguided tax code, with unfair slants in a 60k page document that favors just about everyone with some free shit everywhere such that an entire tax code management industry exists to operate it. As it is now the hidden benefactors to the tax code are not just the non payers of taxes but it's the maddening money processors taking cuts to manage it.  Each player in the engaging tax code that frankly once distilled down hits us all unfairly (if we're open and honest and transparent about our own gains) "profits" from the shenanigans of an algorithmic code that even software giants cannot accurately comply.  

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A complaint or a solution? 

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I hope you asked that ... I really really do.   Especially the solution part.....

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We the people (when we stop calling each other stupid and bad and wrong and being passive/aggressive enemies to one another anyway) can do something. We the people can ... we can. 

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Here's the pitch and it's the best I've got:

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Let's just flat line the tax code to a one paragraph code... maybe something simple like this:

When any American deposits money into any banking instituion they shall automatically deduct from each dollar deposited (some f**king single digit percent here) to which the government of the US shall disperse to (some f**cking list of US government bank accounts where government pays its bills) such that the tax payer and the tax receiver can transparently and openly develop minimally stable cash flow estimates to care for all of its people - effective immediately.

Sincerely Kurt LaRose

Here's the "news article" or video (it's an editorial btw) to which I write my opinion ...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaires-pay-no-taxes-while-workers-get-no-raises-120116788.html

Love is simple.  Hugs, kisses, hand holding, a touch on the shoulder...grown ups, kids....platonic and romantic - straight and gay and non-sexual too!  Today is about love .... so love a little (or allot).  And, before you say "I don't have anyone to love me..." please, please, please remember this: you have you!  So love - a little or allot - and that means YOU!

 

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Powerful herbs for healthier bodies and a great resource...Besides the content, this Healthline article (it appears to be the same with all of their articles) is linked to credited/credible resources at the end of each section/segment.  Wonderfully, the folks at healthline wellness, also include information about emerging claims (maybe even old ones too) that are not yet researched enough. Please take a look at the referenced articles from  Healthline.com (see the link above) and from the mental health perspective you can learn more at: TalkifUwant.com/nutrition

Share-premacy is not the purpose...

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A conscience ... This grandaughter speaks a truth, without getting into the mix of naming people as bad (she says that they are good actually).... she speaks of a conscience, a corporate conscience, from an era not so long gone... she speaks of a time when wealth and profit were not the purpose, as they have seemingly become in today's systemic and structural society... this grandaughter both celebrates and damns Disney ... a global brand and a known name that is in her family lineage (she names other big names too).  This grandaughter, without grabbing onto any particular brand or policy or politics suggests that any corporation that has in its midst an employee without a living wage is not fulfilling its purpose... it is fulfilling share-premacy (something that makes sense,  she says and she questions a bit as well).  This grandaughter does not talk about a living wage at $15 an hour (she didn't even mention it - probably because she knows that $15 is NOT a living wage)...this grandaughter mentions food and decent healthcare as part of what defines living. This grandaughter seems to touch on the good in all of us, potentially and blindly culpable to some degree as well, by our own agreement of a sharepremacy culture. "From the person filling in the spreadsheets to the ones making the bedsheets... we're all one people on one planet" and we can do better.  This grandaughter says that it's about dignity and a conscience.  

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