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Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Drug Counseling And Addiction Recovery – Conejo Equine Assisted Learning uses the principles of Equine Assisted Psychotherapy to pair horses with people. This, in turn, is used to overcome the issue…

 

Local authories discuss drug trends in presentation

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"We don't want to just talk about the problem, we are acting on it," Webb said, noting the district had instituted drug testing and counseling, as well as helped to pass city ordinances on the problem. He encouraged the audience to become active as well.
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Seahawks CB Brandon Browner questions NFL drug policy

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… Steven Bisig / USA TODAY Sports. Seattle Seahawks cornerback Brandon Browner, suspended indefinitely by the NFL in December after testing positive for marijuana, says it is unfair for the league to count as an additional offense any drug tests he …
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Question by Becca51: May I please change jobs?
I am an RN. I work three 12 hour shifts a week and my base pay is $ 20.65. I want to quit. I am terribly unhappy in my job. Husband and I have $ 15,000 of debt. I wish to become a receptionist/secretary for less than half of my current pay. As it stands I am the breadwinner. If I am unhappy – so much so that I cannot get out of bed to go to this job – should I stay in it to help my husband. I don’t think I can do that. But I CAN work a job that I want to do for a longer duration to help us pay off or debt. So many people make their lives “work” with their jobs and incomes. Do you have any advice for me? BTW, I called in sick today. I absolutely behaved like a child to my husband as he tried to get me to get up and go to work. I almost hope to be fired for excessive absences so that I will have an excuse to get my dream job.
I don’t think I can tolerate the job long enough to pay off our debt. I am having enough trouble making it from one shift to another.
There are several reasons that I hate this job. Here is my list:
-Nursing is nothing like what it used to be. The boss is a business man – not a compassionate person with a medical background. Its all about the bottom line.
-Patients are being put on the bottom of the list in many ways. Doctors are treating the symptoms (like narcotic dependence, alcohol abuse) and not treating the source of the problem.
-Staffing is terrible. The nurse to patient ratio is 5:1 on days and sometimes 6:1 on nights. Hospitals care more about being in the black, the nursing staff is overworked, over stressed, underpaid, and I can’t even spend time doing BASIC nursing care.
I’m not a nurse when I am at work. I am a concierge for conceited drug addicted people who know how to work the system. I spend my time charting with my back to the patient (a no no) because some ninny business man wanted computers in every room – and computer charting. At the end of the day you are exhausted, limping, and not thanked.
I am on a general medical surgical floor. We have all kinds of patients. I have thought about working in a doctor’s office but mostly they hire LPNs or MAs instead of BSN RNs.

 

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Christie proposes expansion of drug treatment services

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Addiction treatment and drug-related law enforcement were focal points of Governor Christie's state of the state speech Tuesday, as the governor sought to refocus attention on his legislative achievements and second-term agenda. Christie praised the …
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In Vermont, A Network Of Help For Opiate-Addicted Mothers

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As Vermont expands addiction treatment services, it is also coming to grips with one of the most difficult and emotional aspects of the problem: pregnant women addicted to opiates. Originally published on Tue January 28, 2014 5:54 pm. It came as a …
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Genoa man wants to help students avoid mistakes

Filed under: opiate rehab

That's what opiates do." Turgeon graduated from high school in 2007 and went off to Washtenaw Community College. He was working, taking classes and playing on the baseball team, but his problems remained. He was arrested for possession of heroin when …
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Akron-area heroin deaths soar, suburbs and rural areas fall victim

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He said he's been sober for more than a year, but his journey into opiate use, including heroin and painkillers, took him to the depths of despair. Day after day … The dealer is in jail and Jake is awaiting his turn at rehab after detoxing from his …
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Question by Paloma923: Is it possible to save a marriage if my husband deserted me during my lowest times of my life?
I’m having a hard time trying to forgive and forget when my husband deserted me in our marriage on several situations where I needed him the most. He wasn’t emotionally or at least physically there for me when my mother died, he actually gave me more grief then any thing. We fought so much during this because as he puts it “I should have gotten over her death within 4 months of her death…because that’s how he is and is family is.” We went to see a marriage counselor, but stopped going after he said that he was only going because I was making the appointments. He claims that he acted this way because he was dealing with emotional issues from his childhood and his deployment which both, he didn’t bother trying to get help for….even when I tried to get him help. Everytime I cried about my mother’s death, he would say nasty things like “well, I’m not going to comfort you because your going to still cry anyways.” To make matter’s worse, my family also deserted me and withheld their support, I basically had no one to be there….except for a psychiatrist…even though I would have liked that to be my husband or family.
Well, I forgave him and gave him another chance. Shortly, I lose my job, and guess what….he was not emotionally supportive for me again. Instead of giving me encouragement, he would bitch me out and constantly stress me out even more by threatening me that “we were going to have problems if I couldn’t find a job.” It wasn’t like I was sitting around the house just chillan, I constantly applied to jobs to no avail. I finally got a job working a fast food joint, something I told myself that I would never do ever again in my life, but I did it to keep my marriage together. Sure enough, his attitude was towards me did a 360 and he was happy with me once again….I feel very disgusted with the way he has acted….and he claims that now he realizes that he was not there for me the way he should have been, but I can’t help but constantly play back everything in my head and wonder should I continue with this marriage or not?
I grew resentment towards him for putting me through all this. I cried alone so many times, and I’m done feeling hurt. I love him still, and I don’t want to get a divorce…..needless to say, I fell into drinking alcohol to numb everything out. I’m angry and hurt, and it feels like no matter how many times he claims he is a changed man, and promises he will not desert me, I can’t seem to forget what he has done and fear that he would act like this again in the future. I can’t go through this again, I’m too weak. I’m sorry if I sound like complaining but I just don’t have anyone.
thank you Duo, I will check out that website. It is comforting to know that I’m not the only person going through this sort of problem in marriages. Now I don’t feel to entirely alone.
I’m new at this and I’m trying to figure out if there is a way that I can reply to each of your individual responses. Is there any other way to do this other than adding more details?
Karin- You are so right, love should be unconditional and I don’t feel that he loves me unconditionally. I actually feel like I’m married to a groupie…you know someone that only wants to be around when things are going great, then they are there fully without skipping a beat. That’s not who I want in my life. I feel so betrayed and hurt. Im not trying to play the blame game, but I think what made matter’s worse is that I never had a chance to really cope with my mother’s death because I have been so worried about my marriage constantly and she passed away on November 9th 2008. I got so disgusted with him when he started to act happy again when I found a job, I left him and stayed with a friend for a week. He says he is going to work on himself and change…but I just don’t believe he will. I feel like a stupid woman for giving him so many chances, my gut tells me that he will never really act right. Thank you for your response hun.
XO- you made me realize that I am looking for a reason to stay in this marriage…I don’t want to leave but at the same time, this marriage is causing me more damage than good. It does feel like abuse, as much as I don’t want to think about it like that, but it does feel that way because I’m emotionally torn and damaged about the one person that should have had my back regardless just failed on me the worse way possible. I will work on myself to lift myself out of this depression and alcoholism, your right, even though I can’t save this marriage, I can at least save myself. Thank you for your response.
Scarlet Cougar- I totally feel what your saying. He promised me that he will go to therapy, and he is willing to. The problem is, is that I have no faith in people anymore. I have been lied to, betrayed, and cheated out of happiness from this man. I just don’t believe that he will change, I wish there was some sort of pill that I can take that can just wipe the painful memory of him deserting me, cuz I think that will be the only way that I can even look at him now. I will try and get involved with a support group aside from him. Your right, I know that I have worn him out with the constant demand for support, but at the same time, he left me know choice with him so focused on his career, we have moved around the U.S. with his job I have lived in 5 states within the past 3 years, I can’t even establish friends…or even a stable career. I guess that’s what I get for being the “supportive wife” he never deserved to ask me to drop everything to support him in his career decisions.
Queen Agnostic- That’s true, we all make mistakes. I have a hard time believing in anyone that makes the mistake of not being there for the person they claim to love, that they even love that person at all. I mean, I think I could do what he did to me to someone else if I absolutely did not love or care about that person….thats the only way possible….
I will try and keep finding work and establish something for me and slowly remove myself from this if it comes down to it. I’m going to give our marriage once last chance at least I will know then that I did give it a chance.
As for the alcohol, I will stop and quit, Its not so bad to the point that I have to have it. I’m really sorry for your loss, my mother died exactly one year and one day before yours (November 9th 2008), and it hurts everyday. I’m so sorry hun, my heart aches for you. I know that everytime I look up at the sky, I know she is looking back. I know that your mother is doing the same to you (hugs).
Queen Agnostic-It will get better in time, trust me. It hurts everyday as if it happened yesterday, but I know that she is in a better place. Thank you for your support and advice, I really appreciate it.
Island- That’s what I believe to, I didn’t expect him to be the one of the people that failed to be there for me. It felt like a major slap to the face that he, along with my siblings, turned his back on me when I needed him the most. I can’t get over that part, I’m losing sleep, I can’t look at him without disgust.
I didn’t think that I was acting in a way that other people that lose their mother’s wouldn’t be. I have realized that he was just saying this as a cop out excuse so that he wouldn’t have to deal with it anymore.
I’m going to get counseling, definitely, and I don’t have faith in him or much less anyone these days. I know for sure this will be the last time I say I do to anyone, I can’t go through disappointment again. Thank you for your advice and input, I greatly appreciate it.
Liz- Your so right, and I think that’s why our marriage is the way it is now. I’m going to try this marriage counseling with him since now he is “serious” about it, but I’m also embracing myself for the worse. Thank you for your time and input.
Six6un- Wow…ouch…you really told it like it is…a little hurtful, but since when does the truth feel good huh? I appreciate you being honest with me. I’m sorry for the too much info….I wasn’t always so emotionally dependant…I just became this way when I lost my mom, I lost my mom in the most traumatic experiences ever…I watched her slowly die in ICU helplessly for one month alone (it’s a longer story how it happened but long story short, she slipped into a coma and never woke up after experiencing complications from multiple seizures during a dialysis session.)
A long time ago, we were happy with each other, he wasn’t this coward that I see now. I fell in love with his representative, it feels like this man that
continued…I see now didn’t appear until we said I do, seriously. I don’t want to end this marriage, but at the same time your right, I don’t need someone that can’t stay by my side when things aren’t going great. I don’t think I can be or consider being with another man after this marriage. Thank you for your advice and honesty.

Question by Fstah06: Is there hope for my marriage?
In 2008 when I was 4 months pregnant with my son I found out my husband had been lying to me about various things throughout our 8yr relationship. I found out about his internet “friends” that happened to be all women, I read some sexual private messages to some of these “friends” on a friendster acct i didn’t even know he had. I found out that he talked to these women on the phone many times at night when he was “working late”. He also used his working lunch to call them but was too busy to call me. I found out he even added international calling to our phone plan to keep in touch with one of his friends in Canada. I found out he sent money to some of his friends even though we were close to being evicted. I found out he has was calling asian prostitutes he found off craigslist when I left him for a few months. We already had a daughter by this time. Oh the things i’ve found out about him. He is also an closet alcoholic and pill popper. I would notice his strange behavior but since my husband does such a great job of playing the “nice, i’ll never hurt a fly” guy that I never imagined he was doing these things behind my back. I caught him by going through our cell phone records and logging into his AIM (no i wasn’t messaging his friends, but waited until they messaged him). Everything hit the fan when he left his cell phone home one day and he received a text from a “work” contact, in which this woman proceeded to call me a psycho. He never defended me to these people and his family ,who also seem to think i have issues based on lies he’s told, but he claims to have stopped talking to these people. He claims that he talked to these women to deal with my anger outbursts and my mood swings. He made me out to be some crazy women. I was acting with such rage because he was taking money from me, leaving me at home with no transportation, ruining my credit and left me completely isolated with no where to go after I had our daughter. I was mad as hell and felt like a prisoner.I left him because I hated the angry person I was becoming. I offered to go to anger management and asked him to do couples counseling for many many years. He took my behavior and used it as an excuse to play the victim to all these women he was talking to instead of actually taking my advice of doing professional counseling. Of course, while he was getting “counseling” from his friends, I was at home isolated and confused as to why he wasn’t taking any of my advice. I took myself and my daughter out of state after that text message. I was having panic attacks. I didn’t think this was the best environment for me considering I was pregnant. After our son was born I returned.
In the past two years he seems to have made an honest effort to change and tells me he loves me, helps with every aspect of the house chores and is great with the kids. The problem is I don’t trust him. I have a lot of anger toward him and honestly my heart isn’t it anymore. I don’t have any interest in putting any effort into our relationship. I really don’t like him much. He’s great with the kids and I’m trying to figure out an arrangement in which our kids have us both in their lives without me having to see his face. He doesn’t want a divorce and keeps acting as if he’s in denial of the reality that I really don’t want this marriage. If I feel totally detached from this relationship, is there hope that anything can fix it? Is it possible for me to let him in my life again, if I feel nothing but resentment toward him? If it makes a difference, i’m currently a stay at home mom but had a professional job before becoming a mom.