TICKETS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

MONDAY JUNE 18th, Florian Hall 55 Hallet Street Dorchester Mass. Doors open at 5:30 light refreshments will be available. Tickets are 15.00 each. For tickets email learntocope2001@yahoo.com

For more information about Chris:

http://www.basketballjunkie.net/about/

http://www.iwannawatch.net/2011/11/espn-films-unguarded-2011/

http://www.basketballjunkie.net/

http://www.theherrenproject.org/

On Monday May 21st the Brockton LTC meeting is canceled due to a room schedule conflict…….we will resume meeting every Monday there after. There IS a meeting tonight Monday May 14th 2012.

Tickets will be on sale in June….stay tuned.

We are the parents, or as prevention organizations out there that are being paid by the drug company that created OxyContin and an epidemic “Parents…..the anti drug”. Well if we are the anti drug, what does that make the makers of OxyContin and the other Pharm company that created the very much popular “Perc 30″.  Oh and let’s not forget we have Zohydro next in line that we fear may get approved by the FDA. It’s said to be 10 times stronger than Vicodin. Do we need this? Have we not learned from past mistakes with what happened with Oxy Contin?

That makes three Pharmaceutical companies, two that are making BILLIONS and the next about to make billions.

So, why do the parents need to be the only ones to be the “anti drug” Why can’t the leaders in this country stand up to the Pharmaceuticals and join forces to also become the “anti drug”. Why isn’t society angry? If you could only see just how many young people are losing their lives or destroying their lives out here today. According to the CDC Prescription drug use and abuse is up 400%! Why is this allowed to happen? Who else should be protecting this countries youth? Who cares for the families that their anti drug messages didn’t help?

If anyone believes that parents being viligant and educating their kids about the dangers of drugs, eating dinner with them, helping with homework, attending school events and parent teacher meetings, enrolling them in sports and attending their games is a guarantee that their kids will always make the right decision when they are approached to try the poison the big Pharma floods our society with they are very naive.

There are also millions who were prescribed these opiates for injuries that became a statistic. What about the ones we hear about today that go to a doctor or NP and walk out with Vicodin? Not even really knowing what it is and becoming addicted to it? We have been hearing about young people with STREP THROAT walking out of their primary care with VICODIN for the pain! What happened to an antibiotic and throat spray?

How many people know what an Opiate is and what drugs are an Opiate?

Almost every story you hear at meetings or read on addiction blogs and facebook pages across the country is how they were athletes, good students, wonderful sons and daughters with loving families. Yet the picture you get and the message you get from the organizations taking blood money is to blame those families. As if they could have prevented it all. This is exactly what the Pharmaceuticals want people to believe as they make BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars. As their executives purchase their mansions and summer homes.

As they sponsor conferences at Disney World in Orlando Florida to send their message that all our medicine cabinets were full of Opiates and we addicted our kids, or didn’t educate them. That our kids all have behavioral issues. As if all parents in living this hell watching their kids die in front of their eyes are to blame. Are there not ever any situations where a kid takes a risk? Not because they are bad, or their parents didn’t take good care of them, or that they have mental illness. Sometimes it’s that risk taking experimenting moment that many kids may have. It would be false and dishonest to say that no one has ever made a decision when they were a kid to do something risky no matter what their parents taught them.

Parents in todays world that have young children need more than commercials that cost millions and paid for by the very company that caused this epidemic, they need our leaders to put a stop to the greed and do something about it! They need our leaders in this country to help them protect their children. It can begin with a standard that our own FDA could implement. Someone needs to slow down the Pharmaceutical companies from pumping out more Opiate drugs than we need. What about not approving so many Opiate drugs? Do we not have enough?  What about being sure these new Opiates no matter what company makes them are made tamper proof? That is not the cure all by the way, people can still find a way to abuse BUT we have seen a decrease in OxyContin use since the formulation was changed it made a dent.

Is that good news? Yes and no, because as soon as that happened another Pharmaceutical unleashed the PERC 30’s. By the way, Perc 30’s are not Percocet, they are 30 milligram Oxycodone with out the tylenol mix, Rapid release meaning NO time release.

Does anyone see the strategy here? No one knows where the name “perc 30″ came from, it’s a street name. One thing I can say about that name is for some reason people think “Oh it’s JUST Percs”. Percocet does not come in 30 milligram doses, they only go up to 10 milligrams.

Do we have a pain epidemic? Many say so. Although I had never heard of a pain epidemic until this Opiate epidemic.

Do Cancer patients need Opiate medicine? OF COURSE THEY DO. Have they always had it? YES, morphine in a controlled manner…..not now. Since the late 90’s when OxyContin was unleashed we now have a pain epidemic and people are fooled in to thinking no one should feel an ounce of pain.

Chronic pain sufferers should have medicine too but now we can’t seem to seperate the honest from the dishonest thanks to greed. This has gone beyond just having medicine for pain sufferers, this has caused more pain than anyone could ever imagine………………….

“BAY COVE’S “RUN FOR SERVICES”

Good morning

I know MANY LTC members have had sons or daughters go to New hope TSS in Weymouth run through Bay Cove Human Services.

I truly believe that with out New Hope there are many people who would not be alive and well today including my son.

If you have had a family member go to New Hope whether they did well or not, it was “there” which could have been the difference between life or death.

New Hope is strict, and it HAS to be…..there is no other way when dealing with the madness of addiction, espeially Opiate addiction.

Please consider sending off a donation to New Hope. This year several employee’s are running in the Boston Marathon under officail charity numbers including President, Bill Sprague.  Jim Laprade Senior Vice President for Operations is running for “Addiction Services” which od course includes new Hope.

All donations are tax deductable and all donations sent to New Hope will be used specifically for New Hope clients.

Please make check payable to “Bay Cove Human Services, Inc”In the memo line note “charity run for New Hope”

You can send your donation to:

Director Peter Collins

C/O New Hope-TSS

61 Redfield Rd

South Weymouth, Massachusetts

02190

We are very grateful to have Chris visit the families of Learn to Cope and their kids. His message is POWERFUL and full of HOPE!

There will be more details once we have more information. So save the date Monday June 18th!

None of us have a guarantee, but we always have to hang on to HOPE

None of us can change another person, we can only adjust our lives and practice acceptance for the way things “are” but at the same time knowing they CAN change with work on our part AND on the ones we love

None of us will have have a peaceful day every day, but there will be days with peace

None of us are experts, we are parents and family members with on the job training by living it

None of us chose this, it chose us

All of our stories are different, but very much the same

All of us are human, we make mistakes

All of us are kind, caring compassionate people, willing to give back to another with out judgement or harshness toward another

All of us are together fighting the good fight for the good of our families and in turn for the good of our communities…………… ………………………………………….

Say a prayer for those who have lost their loved ones that they can find peace and comfort again some day

God bless us all……….

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, have the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”

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Bill S 2072, an act relative to prescription drug diversion, abuse and addiction. This is the legislation that Sen. Keenan has been working on for several months.  

The key pieces:

– requiring doctors and the Department of Public Health to come up with a proper set of “best practices” to guide how they prescribe opioids for the treatment of pain

– reduce doctor shopping by requiring doctors to look at their patients drug use histories prior to prescribing opioids

– increase consumer awareness of the dangers of opioids by having an eye-catching, easily-understood pamphlet attached to every filled prescription

– toughen Medicaid’s anti-prescription drug fraud program

– encourage pharmacists to use the state Prescription Monitoring Program to screen questionable customers/prescriptions

– mandates that all prescriptions for opioids must be written on tamper-resistant, secure prescription pads; no more copy paper