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800,000 Americans Busted Annually for Pot

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:30:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They argue the drug war “is doing far more harm than marijuana itself ever will,” because

* it diverts hundreds of thousands of police agents from serious crimes “to the pursuit of harmless tokers”;
* it costs taxpayers at minimum $10 billion a year to catch, prosecute, and incarcerate marijuana users and sellers;
* it enables government to snatch the cars, money, computers and other properties of people caught up in drug raids even if they have had no charges filed against them; and
* it allows “police agents at all levels to trample our Bill of Rights in their eagerness to nab pot consumers.”

The drug war has also unleashed a torrent of racism in the form of unjust sentencing, which confines crack-cocaine users who are mostly black to prison for longer terms than powder snorters, who are mostly white.

Hightower and Frazer say authorities have perverted the infamous “Patriot Act” of 2001 for use in non-terrorism cases, allowing “sneak-and-peak” search warra

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800,000 Americans Busted Annually for Pot

Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and State prisons — but the public is starting to rebel against “the preposterous war on pot,” two political scientists say. Thousands of other pot users and sellers are confined in local jails as well.

“People convicted of possessing even one ounce of marijuana can face a mandatory minimum sentence of a year in jail, and having even one plant in your yard is a federal felony,” progressive organizer Jim Hightower and co-author Phillip Frazer point out in the November issue of “The Hightower Lowdown.”

Police arrest someone in America every 36 seconds on marijuana charges, with a record 872,000 arrests made in 2007, “more than for all violent crimes combined,” Hightower and Frazer point out. They note that 89 per cent of all marijuana arrests “are for simple possession of the weed, not for producing or selling it.”

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Shock Therapy on internet Addicts

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:52:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.psychologytoday.com

China To Stop Shock Therapy On Internet Addicts

BEIJING (AP) - China's Health Ministry has ordered a hospital to stop using electric shock therapy to cure youths of Internet addiction, saying there was no scientific evidence it worked.

Linyi Mental Health Hospital in eastern Shandong province used the treatment as part of a four-month program that has so far treated nearly 3,000 youths, the China Youth Daily newspaper has reported, citing the psychiatrist who runs it, Yang Yongxin.

The ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site late Monday there is no domestic or international clinical evidence that electric shock therapy helps cure Internet addiction. Electric shock therapy is most often used to treat severe depression.

Chinese psychologists say symptoms of Internet addiction include being online more than six hours a day - playing games and looking at pornography rather than working or studying - and getting angry when unable to get online.

naltrexone medication

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:13:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If we want to help our loved ones who have got addicted to drug or alcohol, we should make it easier for them to find a good rehab center.I just found one which I think is better than others.

Clip Source: www.soberliving.com

Vivitrol (Naltrexone) is a drug that can ease the cravings during the treatment of alcohol and drug addiction. Vivitrol is only an aid to treatment and should not replace a traditional residential treatment plan.

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drug rehab California

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:12:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This website explains well methods of treating alcohol addiction.I found this link during search for rehab sites.

Clip Source: www.drugrehabranch.com

Sunrise Recovery is a residential mens drug rehab center in California that treats addiction and substance abuse with highly successful drug treatment programs.

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vicodin addiction

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:32:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Serious health conditions are associated with use of methamphetamines, including memory loss, psychotic behavior, potential heart and brain damage.This site has details about other drugs and their treatment too.

Clip Source: www.soberliving.com

Vicodin Rehab Treatment Program in Orange County, CA

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Female Drug Addicts And Orchid Recovery Center

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:06:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Women have unique needs when it comes to addictions to drug and alcohol. I have been told that their egos suffer more because of self-imposed guilt or shame. The Orchid Recovery Center, here in South Florida, specializes in treating women for addictions, and catering to their specific needs.

Clip Source: orchidrecoverycenter.profileleader.com

Opiates, stimulants, and depressants are prescribed to people all around the world every day with the intention of relieving medical symptoms, reduce depression and anxiety, and to generally help people improve their mental, emotional, and physical health. Unfortunately, taking these drugs for any length of time can lead to addiction or dependency; dependency on any substance can have a negative impact on a person’s life in every aspect including their health as well as their social and family lives. Thanks to the Orchid Recovery Center, women with prescription drug addiction can become dependency free and lead a clean life.

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Reality TV School is the New College

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:32:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Naturally someone would come up with an idea to make money off this ridiculous phenomenon.

Clip Source: smallscreenscoop.com

Reality TV School is the New College

Wannabe reality TV stars rejoice. We have a place for you. No, it isn’t a part on The Hills - it’s even better. It’s the NYRTVS! Where they breed a generation of people to be inauthentic idiots! Real people aren’t real enough, so now you can get trained to be what the TVs want.

Tags: entertainment, tv, television, reality tv, reality television, new york reality tv school, reality tv addiction

The Opinuary Column: Freedom isn't Free (or Alive)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:52:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It fought its addiction to Crystal Meth (Cheaper Than Coke But Still Not Free) and Tobacco (the first carton for soldiers was Free, but after that, not so much) with grit and determination, which it had in buckets (buckets that were Free but had to be returned when it was done with them).

In the weeks before its death, the Opinion was often observed meditating on a litany of uncomfortable realizations: it had discovered that its apartment wasn't Free, its bar tab wasn't Free, its groceries weren't Free and, having failed to appear in court on misdemeanor charges, it suffered the additonal ignominy of facing the fact that indeed, not even its DUI was Free ($250.00 just to post bail!). Its only words to the judge were these: "In the bastardized yet immortal phrasings of Kris Kristofferson: Freedom's just another word for something that isn't free..."

Family of the deceased Opinion are asking that, in lieu of flowers (which aren't free) that each and every one of us do our part to d

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The Opinion "Freedom isn't free" has died after a brief illness, owing in large part to its inability to pay for badly needed medical treatment. Having spent its early years being invoked to shut up dirty fucking hippies, its later years degraded into increasingly violent confrontations with health insurance companies and their motto "Health Care Isn't Free, It Isn't Even Health Care." With no more Free Time on its hands, it joined the ranks of the approximately 45,000 Americans who die every year because, well, you already know why.

Born during the era of The Vietnam War Isn't Free it was viewed as a comforting remonstration against anyone who ever pussifyingly questioned the rightness of our nation's bloody habit of killing brown people in far away lands.

Having married its childhood sweetheart (Sex Isn't Free) only to discover its mate wanted to keep its night job, it sought a divorce (that wasn't Free) and lived out the rest of its years as a Free Spirit.

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The Orchid Recovery Center Is A Rehabilitation Center

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:46:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Women often have different, unique, problems when it comes to addictions. Women are more likely to have ego or guilt problems. The Orchid Recovery Center caters to these particular needs that women have, and helps them to overcome their addictions.

Clip Source: orchidrecoverycenter.professionaljournalonline.com

Women have become increasingly likely to become addicted to the same types of drugs as men have. While in previous decades they may have been more prone to addiction to prescription drugs that were almost synonymous with being a housewife, the modern era is one that sees women as likely to be addicted to drugs such as heroine and cocaine as men are. However, while the drugs that women are dependent on may be identical to those that men become dependent on, the reasons for becoming dependent and the most effective methods of becoming dependency free are quite different.

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prescription drug addiction

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:02:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Our goal is to heal your underlying issues, so that you can walk out of our doors and remain substance free forever.

Clip Source: www.soberliving.com

Prescription Drug Abuse - Addiction Recovery

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eating disorder treatment

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:48:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It’s very important to heal the root cause of your addiction or relapse will most likely happen.

Clip Source: www.eatingdisordertreatment.com

Welcome to Victorian of Newport Beach -
Residential Programs for Eating Disorders

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Rehab a made-up cure for sex jerks like Steve

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:41:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nypost.com

Steve Phillips is the world's luckiest man. He's proven that you, too, can profit from adultery.

Fired by ESPN for hav ing sex with an unglued junior staffer who embarrassed the network, stalked his son on the Internet, and terrorized his wife, Phillips has been sentenced to, of all things, residential sex-addiction treatment. Sounds like a great way to meet horny chicks.

We are living at a time where there is no evil. No one is truly bad. And no one pays for his sins.

All a man has to do to get away with a crime -- from drug addiction to violence to sleeping with a gal young enough to be his daughter -- is confess, repent and vow to clean up his act.

And if he falls off the wagon, as Phillips' agent so colorfully described his client's habit of obtaining sexual favors in a parking lot, that's not demonstrably bad. For Phillips, who earlier slimed the Mets by helping himself to the help, that is a relapse.

Steve, I beg you -- stay away from wackos, young things and the pleasantly plump.

Can Heart Attacks Cause Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:47:28 GMT

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Can Heart Attacks Cause Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?

Many people who experience Heart Attacks can and often do suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome after wards. Heart attack patients complain of anxiety, depression and social withdrawal.

Apparently those people who have lived with denial and avoidance issues are more prone to exhibit PTSD symptoms.

Coronary Artery Disease and PTSD – OrganizedWisdom Health

4; Research in Europe has also found that it is possible for heart attack victims to develop post-traumatic stress disorder following their heart attack. 3. There’s more WisdomCard content below this ad. Advertisement …

Effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: What This Illness can …

Seattle Botox surgeon outlines the risks behind dermal fillers and the precautions one should take b

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:19:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In Seattle, Botox injections offer a youthful, more relaxed look and help you refine and restore your natural beauty. However there are risks of not getting them done from qualified surgeons. The article here outlines the risks behind dermal fillers and the precautions one should take before opting for them.

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Dermal Fillers Addiction - How Deadly is It?

By A Aaronson

The effects of dermal fillers like Botox are not permanent, which means users of this substance must get a new treatment after about four months. Since patients get so used to not having wrinkles, they want to keep up the effect, which can often lead to what seems like an addiction. If you have the money for constant maintenance and the knowledge of the risks involved, obtaining several treatments is up to you.

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Patron Saints

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:52:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.catholicexpert.com

Here are most of the Patron Saints listed by Patronage.

Accountants - St. Matthew

Actors - St. Genesius

Addicts - St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe

Advertising - St. Bernardine of Siena

AIDS patients - St. Peregrine Laziosi

Air travelers - St. Joseph of Cupertino

Alcoholics - Venerable Matt Talbot, St. Monica

Americas - Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Rose of Lima

Babies - Feast of the Holy Innocents

Bankers - St. Matthew

Beggars - St. Alexis, St. Giles

Brewers - St. Luke, St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Nicholas

Comedians - St. Vitus

Computers - St. Isidore of Seville

Dancers - St. Vitus

Dentists - St. Apollonia

Drug addiction - St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe

Earaches - St. Polycarp

Falsely accused - St. Raymond Nonnatus

Fishermen - St. Andrew, St. Peter (Peter and Paul)

Grandparents - Sts. Ann and Joachim

Gypsies - Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla

Hairdressers - St. Martin de Porres

Headaches - St. Teresa of Avila

Internet - St. Isidore of Seville

Knee problems - St. Roch

Pawnbrokers - St. Nicholas

Clipmarks | Addiction Clips

800,000 Americans Busted Annually for Pot

800,000 Americans Busted Annually for Pot

Shock Therapy on internet Addicts

China To Stop Shock Therapy On Internet Addicts

naltrexone medication

drug rehab California

vicodin addiction

Female Drug Addicts And Orchid Recovery Center

Reality TV School is the New College

Reality TV School is the New College

The Opinuary Column: Freedom isn't Free (or Alive)

The Orchid Recovery Center Is A Rehabilitation Center

prescription drug addiction

eating disorder treatment

Welcome to Victorian of Newport Beach - Residential Programs for Eating Disorders

Rehab a made-up cure for sex jerks like Steve

Can Heart Attacks Cause Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?

Can Heart Attacks Cause Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?

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Seattle Botox surgeon outlines the risks behind dermal fillers and the precautions one should take b

Patron Saints

Welcome to Victorian of Newport Beach -
Residential Programs for Eating Disorders