Spice is Back.

It's often that people read posts like this from addiction physiology and assume that legalization would solve all the problems, but forget about the huge problem teens are having with Spice and other "legal highs". I can't begin to tell you of all the stories of teens using Legal Highs that soon lead to death and/or 90 days in rehab! Here's the news on Spice from the chemical dependency counseling community

"Just months after Virginia and dozens of other states banned synthetic marijuana, the chemists who make it have found a way to outfox lawmakers.

Spice manufacturers, who spray herbs with compounds that mimic the active ingredient in marijuana, have altered their recipes just enough to skirt the bans and are again openly marketing spice in stores and on the Web. Some users report that the new generation of products could be more potent than the original formulas, which have sickened hundreds nationwide and been linked to deaths.

Spice, commonly sold in colorful packets as “herbal incense,” is smoked to get high. A new National Institute on Drug Abuse study found that it is the second- most frequently used illicit substance among high school seniors, behind marijuana.

Some users have experienced seizures, hallucinations, vomiting, anxiety and an accelerated heart rate, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Virginia, one of about 40 states that regulate spice, in March made it a crime to have or sell spice that contains any of 10 chemicals often used in the mixture. The same month, the DEA issued a 12-month nationwide emergency prohibition on five compounds. Maryland is also considering restrictions, and the D.C. Council is weighing a ban.

But prosecutions of three of the largest spice busts in Virginia — including one in Falls Church — have hit roadblocks because the spice that police seized does not contain banned chemicals listed in state law. Authorities in Florida, Indiana, Illinois and Alaska have encountered similar problems.

“I don’t know whether we are going to be able stay one step ahead of these chemists,” said Richard Trodden, Arlington County’s top prosecutor and a member of Virginia’s crime commission.

In the Falls Church case, police in June raided a tobacco shop near two schools, seizing 1,700 packets of synthetic marijuana. But the 34 spice samples tested from Arabica Tobacco contained only nonrestricted active ingredients, according to court papers.

The case is scheduled to go to court next month, and prosecutors declined to say whether it will go forward. A reporter did not find spice on sale there this month, and an owner declined to comment on the case.

The emergence of spice

Spice caught the attention of law enforcement in 2008 and has exploded in popularity. The mixes, made with the synthetic version of compounds known as cannabinoids, are sold for about $15 to $25 a gram. One Web site advertises “Legal products available for each . . . state!”

A member of the Falls Church School Board, which pushed for the state spice ban, said she is frustrated it remains on the market.

“To the extent that these makers are putting out a product that’s harmful to kids, that’s going to bother me and every other school board member out there,” Vice Chairman Susan Kearney said.

The problem for lawmakers is thorny. There are potentially hundreds of synthetic cannabinoids that makers could substitute for the banned ones — and that is exactly what has happened.

In July and August alone, Virginia’s forensic lab tested 468 spice samples sent by police statewide. Only 101 included banned substances.

Virginia lawmakers anticipated that spicemakers might switch formulas, so they included a provision in the law that controls chemicals intended to act in a similar fashion as the banned ones. So far, it has not led to any prosecutions.

State scientists say they cannot offer testimony to juries to prove reformulated spice is similar to the original versions — not enough is known about the compounds.

“There’s not enough foundational research done on these chemicals on which to base our testimony,” said Linda Jackson, a chemistry program manager for the state lab.

The problems with enforcement come as the substance is exacting a higher toll. Annual calls to poison control centers about spice have more than doubled nationwide, to about 6,300 this year, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers. In the Washington area, there were 65 calls to the National Capital Poison Center last year and 85 through August 2011.

A recent study found a possible link between spice use and heart attacks in three Texas teens. An eighth-grader in Pennsylvania who had reportedly smoked the drug from a Pez dispenser died in October after a double lung transplant.

In June 2010, David Rozga, an Iowa 18-year-old who had just graduated from high school with a 3.5 grade-point average and planned to attend college, smoked synthetic marijuana, his father said.

Rozga became agitated and told his friends “he felt like he was in hell,” his father said. A short time later, Rozga went home and shot himself in the head. Police implicated use of synthetic marijuana as a factor in his suicide.

“Our whole world was taken out from under us,” said Mike Rozga, David’s father. “We are in a new age of drug dealing when you can walk into a local mall, convenience store or go online and buy this stuff.”

Prepared for the bans

Whatever the dangers, spicemakers were ready for the bans.

Two weeks after Virginia outlawed synthetic marijuana, Hampton police seized 842 packets worth more than $8,000 from Outer Edge Gifts, a Hampton Roads area head shop.

Police said the high-profile bust was intended to send the message that spice was not welcome. Local media photographed seized drugs laid out neatly on a table.

But when the cameras turned away, the case crumbled. Police said forensic tests showed the synthetic marijuana did not contain banned compounds. They never filed charges.

A man who identified himself as the owner of Outer Edge Gifts but declined to give his name said suppliers went so far as to include results of lab tests showing the spice did not have the newly banned ingredients.

“I told the police straight up what we were selling was legal,” the man said. “We had results from a DEA-registered lab.”

A raid in which $10,000 worth of synthetic marijuana was seized from a Newport News hookah bar has not resulted in charges, either. The owner did not return calls, but he told a local newspaper in September that he was selling a new version of spice.

State Sen. Mark R. Herring (D-Loudoun), who wrote Virginia’s spice law, said it has helped educate people about the dangers of the drug and encouraged reputable retailers to stop selling it. But he said that more needs to be done. He said legislation is being written that would add six compounds to the banned list.

Lawmakers on the federal level are also taking a more comprehensive approach by seeking to ban spice compounds, as well as classes of chemical structures on which synthetic marijuana compounds are commonly built.

The initial appeal of spice was as a legal high, but it remains popular because most drug tests will not pick it up and it is readily available from dozens of Web sites.

“We had guys with Pentagon security clearance badges coming in to buy it,” said Alan Amsterdam, co-owner of Capitol Hemp in Adams Morgan. Although he stopped selling spice, he is dubious about efforts to control it.

“The government is one step behind science,” Amsterdam said. “It’s here to stay.”"

By Justin Jouvenal,
Wednesday, December 28,

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...HNP_story.html

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The Worst

I honestly hate posting these sad stories about teens and drugs, but awareness needs to be raised! The chemical dependency counseling community has seen many of these posts that include teens either taking drugs or being the victims of somebody elses carelessness. Here's the news...

"ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Anchorage police say a 14-year-old girl is in critical condition days after a 26-year-old man injected her with heroin.

Sean Warner is charged with drug-related felonies in the case. Court documents say Warner tried to revive the girl himself and didn't immediately call police.

Police say the girl continued to be treated Tuesday at an Anchorage hospital, where she was taken Friday with a drug overdose. Charging documents say the girl, identified only as J.D., was found to have heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine in her system.

Warner's bail has been set at $90,000.

KTUU reports that Warner's father and a friend dispute the allegations and they say Warner is a Navy veteran who saved lives as a medic in Afghanistan. The two said Warner had struggled since returning from the war."

Source: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpps/news/young-teen-critical-after-being-injecte...

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"The greatest users were Eighth Graders...."

Synthetic drugs are starting to make a comback in the drug world and chemical dependency counseling experts have announced that teens are becoming the primary users. Synthetic drugs are cheap and still easily accessible in some states, while in others it's a felony. Addiction physiology has the story... 

"ANOKA COUNTY, MN (WCCO/CNN) – The annual survey by the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows an alarming trend in the number of teens smoking marijuana and using synthetic drugs. 

"Don't trust it, even something coming even from a tobacco shop or a head shop. It may say it's legal, but don't trust it," said Anoka County attorney Tony Palumbo.

Palumbo sees the growing dangers of synthetic drugs first hand. 

His office was one of the first in the state to prosecute a man for a homicide case in the 2010 mass overdose of the synthetic drug 2-CE, which killed an 18-year-old and sent 11 young people to the hospital.

Once believed as a safe alternative to marijuana, synthetic drugs, such as bath salts, are becoming a growing drug choice among teenagers.

The report also shows that while alcohol and cigarette use has dropped to a 37-year low among teens, daily marijuana use is at a 30-year peak. Additionally, one in 15 high school seniors are smoking pot on a daily basis.

Dr. Gavin Bart, who heads Hennepin County Medical Center's addictive medicine division, is concerned with the growing trend and believes teens should rethink their decisions.

"I think there is this idea that since they are synthetic and maybe have some form of pharmaceutical origin, that they may be safer," Bart said. "That's absolutely not a correct assumption."

Less dangerous, but still a concern, is the growing use of energy drinks among teens. One-third of all teens consume the drinks on a daily basis.

The greatest users were eighth graders, but the report concludes that consumption is down slightly from 2010."

Source: http://www.woio.com/story/16327990/synthetic-drug-use-increasing-among-teens

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Bath Salts are Still a Problem.

We all thought that the use of novelty bath salts would never become a problem for the chemical dependency counseling community, but now it's worse than ever! 

Back a few months ago selling these Bath Salts became a Felony in almost every state because of the huge problem the were creating for the United States. People committing suicide, murder, and others literally losing their minds are just some of the things reported from users of these "Bath Salts". The death rate from salts and highs alike it was around 1,000 yearly, but over this past year we have seen more than 4,000 deaths alone from Bath Salts! 

I too wasn't worried about Bath Salts after the bans, until today. 

Reading through my typical feed of chemical dependency counseling news posts I noticed the word Bath Salts on a post! People are still using and are getting addicted to that menace! 

After seeing that post I just had to take the time to write this and really warn people about the dangers of these almost harmless looking novelty salts! 

Please, if you can, re-post this and let others know about the insane side efffects and dangers of Bath Salts. And next time you see these being sold in a dumpy gas station remember they are a Felony in multiple states! 

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Marijuana Use Increases in Teens

Well, the news isn't all bad! As marijuana use has increased dramatically, the use of alcohol has decreased to an all time low, according to addiction physiology studies. The chemical dependency counseling community is continually trying to decrease all these statistics, so play you're part and repost this!  

"LANSING, MICHIGAN — More U.S. teens are using marijuana and see it as less of a risk, while their alcohol use has dipped to historic lows, according to an annual national survey of drug use released Wednesday.

The findings are based on an annual survey of 47,000 teens conducted by the University of Michigan for the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

One of every 15 high school seniors reported smoking marijuana on a daily or near daily basis, the highest rate since 1981.

“One thing we’ve learned over the years is that when young people come to see a drug as dangerous, they’re less likely to use it,” Lloyd Johnston, the study’s principal investigator, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “That helps to explain why marijuana right now is rising, because the proportion of kids who see it as dangerous has been declining.”

The study said marijuana use among teens rose in 2011 for the fourth straight year after considerable decline in the preceding decade.

One of every nine students in their last year of school before college reported using synthetic marijuana within the previous 12 months.

The synthetic drug survey question was asked for the first time this year. Fake marijuana, sometimes sold in drug paraphernalia shops and on the Internet as incense, contains organic leaves coated with chemicals that provide a marijuana-like high when smoked.

A Drug Enforcement Administration emergency order banning the sale of five chemicals used in herbal blends to make synthetic marijuana took effect March 1. Many states also have their own laws banning the sale of synthetic marijuana.

White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske called on parents to get involved to help stop the use of synthetic marijuana.

“It’s not in the vocabulary of parents, and they need to be aware of it so that when they have that conversation about substance abuse that they are knowledgeable and they talk about this,” he told the AP.

Alcohol use continued a trend of decline dating to the 1980s and hit a historic low for the survey, which began in the 1970s.

Other drugs showing some evidence of decline in use this year include cocaine, crack cocaine and inhalants."

Source: http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20111214/NJNEWS18/312140024/Teen-marij...|head

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The Number Keeps Getting Smaller

And I'm not talking about the amount of drug arrests. Just recently I noticed a familier city mentioned on an international News Reporting Website. That city was Lake Elisnore, California. If you live in Southern California then you most likely know the small city, but I bet you didn't know that over 2 dozen students were arrested from the high school just recently. The age that people are getting arrested for drug possession just keeps getting smaller...

I normally wouldn't post a story like this, but it's disheartening to me and the chemical dependency counseling community. These kids now have to pay for their actions for the rest of their lives. Please help warn teens and children of the drugs that are circulating today.

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"RIVERSIDE, Calif. — 

Authorities say they have arrested two dozen Southern California high school students after a long investigation into drug sales on two campuses.

The Riverside County Sheriff's Department said in a statement that 12 students from Vista del Lago High School in Moreno Valley and 12 more from Elsinore High School in Wildomar were arrested Thursday.

During the investigation authorities say they seized marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy and the prescription painkiller hydrocodone. They say seven of the students had weapons or drugs at the time of their arrest.

The students' names were not immediately released, and most would not be identified because they are minors.

The Sheriff's Department was assisted by the Drug Enforcement Agency, local police and prosecutors and two regional drug task forces in the investigation."

 

Source: http://www.krmg.com/ap/ap/crime/24-calif-students-arrested-after-drug-probe/n...

 

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The Most Abused Drug, is Legal?

In this article Pal-item.com talks about how common prescription drug abuse is found in the average American home. It's the killer that comes undetected and has been one of the biggest problems for chemical dependency counseling and addiction physiology.

"The most abused drugs in the United States don't come from south of the border.

 They aren't transported in secret compartments in cars and trucks crisscrossing the country.

And unlike methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine, most of these drugs are created in a safe, controlled environment.

 

In fact, some of them might be in your medicine cabinet right now.

According to figures released by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), more than 15 million people in the United States are abusing prescription drugs. That is more than the combined number of individuals abusing cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants and heroin, the report said.

And the Whitewater Valley certainly has seen an increase in the illegal use and sale of prescription drugs.

"The mindset is that it is a legal drug, so it is OK to use," said Richmond Police Department Det. Jon Chilcoate, who handles the department's prescription drug cases.

Chilcoate said he is working on more cases now than ever involving prescription drugs, and he fears the number will continue to rise.

"It is the No. 1 drug of abuse in the country, and there is no age limit with these drugs," Chilcoate said. "Kids are using these pills and adults are using them. It is happening right here in Richmond."

The danger in abusing prescription drugs also has no limits. The body suffers damage to internal organs from prolonged use of many prescription drugs, and a combination of prescription drugs and the mixing of prescription drugs and illicit drugs such as heroin is also the leading cause of overdoses and overdose deaths in Wayne County.

The Wayne County Health Department reports that Wayne County had 18 overdose deaths in both 2009 and 2010 and has 11 confirmed and six pending overdose deaths this year.

Wayne County Coroner Kevin Fouche said heroin overdoses comprise the majority of deaths by overdose in Wayne County, but in many cases he said the illegal drug was taken in combination with prescription pills.

"We don't have too many overdoses on just pills -- I think less than 10 this year -- and most of them don't result in death," Fouche said. "But what we do see a lot of is people using prescription drugs in combination with illicit drugs and that is a dangerous mixture."

Source: http://www.pal-item.com/article/20111204/NEWS01/112040325/1008/rss

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Alcohol and Other Drugs Awareness Hour

I wanted to take some time to repost this to everyone who has attended these Lectures before and those who are interested in Drug Awareness. Things in the chemical dependency counseling community have changed a lot in the past year so now its time to learn more about the drug and addiction physiology research that has been going on.

"The Alcohol and Other Drugs Awareness Hour is celebrating its 36th year with a series of lectures being held from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.  at the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences on the Eisenhower Medical Center campus.   There is no charge for the lecture series, which begins January 14, 2012.

Following is the schedule of 2012 lectures:

January 14, 2012 Topic:     “LUSH”: The Story of the First Woman in AA Reading Theater Drama Written and Directed by Valerie-Jean Hume

January 21, 2012 Topic:         “Stealing My Life Back: One Step at a Time” Speaker:     Maury Wills MLB Veteran, Instructor, Los Angeles Dodgers Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

January 28, 2012 Topic:         “The Law of Attraction Meets Sobriety” Speaker:    Sherry Gaba, LCSW Life Coach and Published Author Los Angeles, CA

February 18, 2012 Topic:         “Intervention: Spiritual vs. Logical” Speaker:     Ed Storti, CADC Intervention Specialist, Motivational Speaker, Author San Pedro, CA

February 25, 2012 Topic:         “The Harder they Fall” Speaker:     Gary Stromberg Public Relations and Media Consultant, Published Author Los Angeles, CA

March 24, 2012 Topic:         “Beyond the Falls: Redeeming the Lost Years” Speaker:     C.B. Shiepe Award-Winning novelist: “CLIFF FALLS” San Marino, CA

March 31, 2012 Topic:         “Back to the Future” Speakers:   Panel Discussion – Inspiring Stories of Recovery

Alcoholism is the third largest killer disease, after hear tdisease and cancer.  Between one-fourth and one-third of all American families are affected by alcoholism; it is truly a family disease."

Source: http://www.bettyfordcenter.org/recovery/featured-home/2012-alcohol-awareness-...

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Time to Step Things up Against Ecstasy

For the first time in years ecstasy is reaching new levels of danger and it's time for the chemical dependency counseling community to do something. If you know ANYONE going to a rave/club please take the time to warn them of MDMA and how extremely dangerous it can be. 

"As two more families lose loved ones to drugs, radical measures should be considered.

In the past few days, two families have received the news that every parent dreads – a child has died. Both the young men concerned had attended parties where tens of thousands of young people danced all night to pounding electronic music. Twenty other people were in hospital. The suspicion, not unnaturally, is that drugs were involved. Scotland Yard singled out MDMA for mention – methylenedioxymethamphetamine, which is the active ingredient (sometimes) in Ecstasy tablets.

We do not know what caused these deaths. But we can say this: Ecstasy, or “E”, is creeping back in to fashion after years of declining popularity. The reason is simple: MDMA. It is MDMA that acts on the brain to provide the surging, euphoric “rush” that Ecstasy users seek, and which is accentuated by the pulsing beat and bass notes of dance music.

Here is some background. MDMA has been scarce since around 2002, probably because of a clampdown on the trade in the chemicals needed to make it. Instead, drug dealers started adulterating their product with cheap substitutes, such as piperazines (better known as worming powder). Other common adulterants included designer drugs calledcathinones, or amphetamines or caffeine. Some of these substances are a lot more dangerous than MDMA. But their low cost meant that tablets traded as “Ecstasy” could be sold for as little as £1 or £2 a pill. The effect was weaker, mind you, so many users started to lose interest in E, and turned to alternatives, such as alcohol.

This was the Ecstasy scene for the past decade: cheap pills, made of dodgy ingredients, and taken in large quantities, because they lack potency. Clubbers might take three, four or five in a night.
In the past 12 months, though, stronger E has returned. Traffickers, perhaps having discovered new sources of the precursor chemical, are making tablets with high levels of MDMA again. This variant contains 100 to 200 milligrams of MDMA. Ecstasy this powerful hasn’t been available since the heyday of rave culture, between about 1990 and 2002."

28 Nov 2011
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/89...f-Ecstasy.html

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Two Die in UK, Leads Back to Ecstasy?

The chemical dependency counseling community has always taken a firm stand against ecstasy and all its variations. Ecstasy is one of the most dangerous drugs you can take because it is never 100% Ecstasy. 

"Two clubbers have died and another is seriously ill in hospital, as police investigate whether they might have taken a rogue batch of ecstasy.

All three men had attended Alexandra Palace in north London, which regularly plays host to dance music events.

The dead men, aged 20 and 21, were admitted to hospital just after midnight and died hours later.

Alexandra Palace and Lock' N' Load Events, which organized the club night, said they were "deeply shocked".

Police said anybody who had taken drugs at the venue and now felt unwell should seek medical attention at once.
Drum and bass

A spokesman said there were indications that all three might have consumed what they believed to be MDMA, the active ingredient of ecstasy.

But he added that it would be impossible to know for sure until toxicology tests had been carried out.

The 20-year-old victim had attended a drum and bass and "dubstep" event on Friday night that continued into Saturday.

The other man who died, and the man, 20, who is in hospital, went to a separate dance event featuring Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong, which continued from Saturday to Sunday.

Det Insp Rita Tierney said: "Although it is too early to say what caused these men's health to deteriorate, we are investigating the possibility that illegal drugs may have been involved.

"If you have taken what you believed to be MDMA, or any other substance during this weekend's events at Alexandra Palace and are now feeling unwell, I would strongly urge you to attend your nearest hospital as soon as possible."
'Zero tolerance'

A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We were called at 3.40 on Saturday morning and again at six o'clock this morning about patients taken ill at Alexandra Palace.

"In both cases the patients were treated by private medical providers at the venue."

In a joint statement, Alexandra Palace and Lock' N' Load Events said: "Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family and friends of the men who passed away.

"Both the organizers and venue have a zero tolerance to drugs and employ security teams to enforce all measures possible to protect visitors.

"The authorities are being fully assisted in their investigations."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15909496"

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Open UK Meeting- Advisory Council

I wanted to go ahead and post this for all of our UK viewers involved in the chemical dependency counseling community. This is a great opportunity to get involved and attend an open meeting on the Mususe of Drugs in the UK! 

"Thursday 1st December 2011- 10:00am – 4.15pm
Central London

OPEN MEETING
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) invites members of the public to its cocaine evidence gathering meeting on 1st December 2011. The purpose of the meeting is to gather evidence, in public session, to consider the harms of cocaine use.

The ACMD is a statutory and non-executive non-departmental public body, established by the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) 1971. The ACMD has a statutory duty to keep under review the situation in the United Kingdom with respect to the misuse of drugs and to advise Ministers of the measures which they consider should to be taken to deal with social problems which arise from drug misuse. In addition, the ACMD has a duty to consider any matter relating to drug dependence or misuse that may be referred to them by Ministers.

Attending the meeting
The meeting will be held in London, commencing at 10:00am. You will receive details of the venue with your confirmation email. There will be an opportunity for attendees to participate in a short question & answer session.

Attendance is FREE but by registration only as places are limited and restricted to one person per application. Places will be issued on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. 

To register to attend please complete the registration form below (*see attached word doc) and email to ACMD@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk Seacole
or by post to:
ACMD Secretariat
3 Floor (SW Quarter)
Building
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
Tel: 0207 035 0454/60"

Source: http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=172042#ixzz1eZgVOffY

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The 25 Years of Research

MAPS will be celebrating its 25 year anniversary in Oakland this December! If you have been keeping up with MAPS and their studies into addiction physiology and psychedelic studies then this conference will be a must..

"The Santa Cruz-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies will be celebrating 25 years of research and education, from December 8-12 in Oakland.

Everywhere I look, it seems, there are signs that the human species is becoming more and more comfortable with psychedelic mind states. 

While a lot of music and visionary art has long been influenced by psychedelics, and many artists and musicians have greatly valued the experience, the recently awakened acceptance of these forbidden fruits in respected cultural terrains, such as academia, medicine, and spirituality, is now, finally, seeping its way into the mainstream culture. 

A worldwide renaissance is presently underway, as medical studies with psychedelics are producing extraordinary results in treating a variety of mental illnesses. Positive articles about the potential benefits of psychedelic drugs have been featured in virtually every major magazine and television news show over the past few years, and this is an abrupt change from the decades where psychedelics have been demonized, ridiculed, or ignored.

For someone who has been carefully watching how psychedelics are represented in mainstream culture since the Sixties, these dramatic changes over the past few years have been hard to miss, and they offer tremendous hope for change, as these once-feared substances finally find acceptance as new medical treatments and psychotherapeutic tools, as well as creativity enhancers and spiritual catalysts.

As regular readers of my column are aware, much of the acceptance of psychedelic drug research in modern medicine and mainstream culture is due to the hard work of my colleagues at the Santa Cruz-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). MAPS is currently conducting studies with MDMA, LSD, ibogaine, and other psychedelic drugs, in an attempt to develop them into legal prescription medicines, in order to treat a variety of difficult-to-treat illnesses.

MAPS will be celebrating 25 years of scientific research and education from December 8-12 in Oakland.

Come join us!

Cartographie Psychedelica, as the celebration event is called, will feature five days of lectures, performances, workshops, art, honorary benefit dinners, and parties. Many pioneers, researchers, and psychotherapists who have worked with psychedelic drugs will be there, including Stanislav Grof, Charles Grob, Michael Mithoefer, James Fadiman, Ralph Metzner, and MAPS founder Rick Doblin. 

There will be visionary art workshops by Alex and Allyson Grey, as well by Andrew and Phaedrana Jones, who will also be giving a live performance. 

Early morning cruises on the San Francisco Bay will be available (the “Floating World”), and there will be a mind-blowing, eye-popping visionary art gallery (the Kaleidoscope Vault), late-night dance parties (the Medicine Ball), a large arena of vendor booths, and other exciting delights for psychedelically-minded visionaries and connoisseurs of hallucinogenic creativity, as well as those who are simply interested in the scientific research and medical applications of these extraordinary substances.

All of the proceeds from this event will go to support psychedelic drug research and education. 

This is an event that you most definitely will not want to miss. Every year, psychedelic drug conferences become larger and more confident in their approach, and this one promises to be the biggest and most exciting one yet. Looking forward to seeing you there!

To learn more about the MAPS 25th Anniversary celebration see:

www.maps.org/conference/25/

November 16, 2011
Source: http://santacruz.patch.com/articles/...ted-cdeb0922#c"

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Cocaine use Starting to Decline

Some good news for the chemical dependency counseling community, Europes' Centre for Drugs has found a decline in the use of cocaine over the year 2011. Here's more on the article/study...

"Rates of cocaine use have started to decline across Europe, according to the 2011 annual report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).

The countries with the most significant cocaine problems – Spain, Italy, Denmark and the UK – all reported a fall in ‘last-year’ use among 15 to 34-year-olds, mirroring similar trends in the US and Canada. The UK, however, remains the European country with the highest rate of use among this age group. 

With an average price of between 50 and 80 Euros per gram, regular cocaine use may have become a ‘less attractive option in countries where austerity is now the order of the day’, says the EMCDDA, although the drug remains the continent’s most widely used illicit stimulant, with around 17 per cent of those entering treatment reporting it as their main problem substance.

Levels of heroin use have remained largely unchanged, although there are still more than 1.3m regular opioid users in the EU and Norway. Clients in treatment are generally older, however, and the proportion reporting injecting is also declining in most countries, with just 40 per cent of those entering treatment for opioid problems regular injectors. Around 700,000 opioid users received substitution treatment in Europe in 2009, 50,000 more than in 2007, although coverage continues to vary greatly. Worryingly, however, Greece – traditionally a country with a low HIV prevalence – has reported a significant outbreak of new HIV infections among injecting drug users. 

Although drug use as a whole appears to be ‘relatively stable’ across Europe, and cannabis use continues to decline among young people, there are ‘new threats’ from the rapidly evolving synthetic drugs market, and widespread polydrug use, says the report, adding that European drug policies and responses will need to adapt accordingly. 

Thirty-nine new drugs have been reported so far this year via the European early warning system (EWS), on top of the 41 new substances notified to the EMCDDA and Europol last year (DDN, June, page 5). Drug manufacturers are also playing ‘cat-and-mouse’ with the authorities in terms of the imported precursor chemicals used to synthesise the drugs, the report states, using increasingly sophisticated techniques to bypass regulations. These include synthesising precursors from ‘pre-precursors’ or masking them as non-controlled chemicals, which are then reconverted after importation. 

‘The fast moving and increasingly joined-up world we live in is mirrored by an increasingly fast moving and joined-up drug market which appears quick to adapt to both threats and opportunities’, said EMCDDA director Wolfgang Götz. ‘This is reflected not only in the sheer number of new substances appearing on the market, but also in their diversity and in how they are produced, distributed and marketed. We need a proactive strategy that allows us to rapidly identify new drugs and emerging trends so that we can anticipate their potential implications. We also need to coordinate our responses across Europe as, without doing so, individual national efforts are likely to prove ineffective. These two factors are crucial if we are to stay ahead in this rapidly developing game of cat and mouse’."

16 November 2011

Source: http://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/ViewNews.aspx?id=851

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A Talk with Bob Forrest

"Hollywood (CNN) -- One by one, the famous train wrecks and no-name junkies come to see the addict whisperer in his sunny aerie above the fabled corner of Hollywood and Vine. Eleven stories above the strip clubs and head shops and crowded sidewalks embedded with shiny golden stars, they seek Bob Forrest's help in fighting their demons.

Forrest is a former rocker known for his intoxicated rants and onstage antics as the lead singer of the post-punk band Thelonious Monster. Yes, he fell off the stage and set the props on fire. That was part of the draw. Yes, he cursed out Jesus, said scary things about the first George Bush and mangled "The Star Spangled Banner." That was over the top. And yes, he planned to kill himself on stage during a concert but chickened out. That was the monster talking.

He was one of the worst heroin junkies on the Hollywood club scene until he shocked everyone by getting sober in 1996. He says he delivered cocaine, crystal meth and heroin to some of the most famous people in the world. Helping addicts stay sober is his shot at redemption, or as Forrest puts it, "breaking even on some of the sh---y things I did in the past."

Heads turn when Forrest strolls down Hollywood Boulevard. Some people recognize him as Dr. Drew Pinsky's trusty sidekick from VH-1's "Celebrity Rehab." He refers to himself as "the guy in the hat," and it's hard to miss that trademark fedora atop a shoulder-length reddish mop. His pale blue eyes peer out at the world from behind thick, black spectacles -- the type musician Elvis Costello wore as an angry young man.

Forrest's lined, pockmarked face is a road map of what a couple of decades of hard drinking and drugging can do to a person. He laughs when he tells the story about being mistaken for a panhandler when he showed up earlier this year for a guest appearance on Piers Morgan's CNN show.

But Forrest knows his look resonates with clients, most of whom are twentysomething and see him as "this cool old guy." His footnote in music history -- his band opened for The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction -- and stories of rock 'n' roll excess give him street cred with the addicts he counsels in his office at Hollywood Recovery Services. He takes on about eight clients at a time -- some famous, some wealthy, some with no money to pay him.

He's undeniably charismatic and articulate and funny. And, he has an uncanny way of getting through to even the most defiant addicts.

"Bob hasn't forgotten what it's like to be a junkie," says actress and "Celebrity Rehab" alum Mackenzie Phillips. "He doesn't talk down to you."

Actor Eric Roberts (brother of Julia, father of Emma) is another "Celebrity Rehab" grad who kicked cocaine years ago and is on a mission to abstain from marijuana for 1,000 days. He calls Forrest "an instinctive genius."
"Dr. Drew is a little clean-cut for my taste, but Bob is Mr. Funky," he says, stopping by Forrest's office one morning. "Don't get me wrong, though. Bob will kick your ass."

Now that he's 50, and with 16 years of sobriety behind him, Forrest has found his niche in Hollywood. He's a homegrown addict with a unique perspective on the deadly cocktail of addiction and fame.

As Forrest recounted his life story late last month, the sordid details of Michael Jackson's overdose death were being detailed in court, starlet Lindsay Lohan and her father were in and out of jail again, and the final word came down on what killed singer Amy Winehouse: alcohol poisoning. It was just another week in the endless real-life drama of celebrity addiction.

What does Bob Forrest, addict whisperer and self-described straight shooter, have to say about fame and flameout? Plenty.

"I live in the belly of the beast. I have an office here in Los Angeles, and I have an office in Las Vegas. I don't know how you could possibly see any more of this fame and ridiculousness."

Experience has been his teacher.

The monster comes knocking
"My life is measured by album releases and the deaths of friends," Forrest says. And the reign of the monster.

Recalling those times, this natural-born raconteur mixes up names, dates, and even the cities he was in. Is that the result of decades of drug abuse, or simply a function of being 50? Hard to say.

He tells a hilarious story about shooting cocaine in a motel with a famous rock star in Cleveland -- or was it Chicago? -- and hearing helicopters outside. Paranoid, they were sure the cops were coming with a SWAT team. Let's pretend we're asleep, they decided, crawling under the covers of the two queen beds.

What seemed like hours later, Forrest says he whispered, "Dude, we've got our clothes on. They're gonna know we're faking." By then, the sun was up. They peered out the window and realized why they'd heard helicopters: The motel was next to the airport.

Forrest's relationship with drugs may have its roots in childhood trauma, which he and PInsky see as the perfect petri dish for addiction. His life started out smoothly; he was a privileged kid -- and a decent golfer -- who was the center of attention at home in Palm Springs.

Sure, his parents drank, but didn't everyone's? One day, while they were drinking, a secret slipped out and the bottom dropped out of Forrest's world. His sister, he learned, was actually his mother. "Sister mom," he calls her. And the people he thought were his parents were his grandparents.

Forrest was 13, and he remembers feeling angry that his family had lied, but he didn't ask questions. He holed up in his room, reading. A passage from Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" became his credo:
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles ..."

He longed to be like Kerouac and was so deeply affected by a biography of comedian Lenny Bruce that he thought shooting heroin might be cool. He'd do just that for the first time at 21, with a blues musician named "Top Jimmy."
But first there were the rum and Cokes. The alcohol helped soothe the pain of a sudden fall from the upper-middle class when the man Forrest knew as his father died and, at 15, he moved with his family to a trailer park.

"I knew I was an alcoholic at an early age because I drank with people in high school who really didn't want their parents to know and didn't want to go home and were worried," Forrest says. "I wasn't worried. I wanted to drink until the sun came up. And then I found other people who wanted to drink until the sun came up."

After high school, he attended Los Angeles City College and discovered the clubs and the emerging punk-grunge scene. He dropped out and was working as a DJ when he befriended a couple of guys named Flea and Anthony. They also liked to party until the sun came up, and he let them sleep on the floor of his apartment.

The L.A. club scene in the 1980s was burbling with talent and creative energy. Courtney Love was there and maintains a friendship with Forrest to this day. Jane's Addiction was on the rise. Forrest's friends -- Flea, whose given name is Michael Peter Balzary, and Anthony Kiedis -- formed the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Forrest fronted Thelonious Monster. Another hard-partying friend, John Frusciante, was about to sign with Forrest's band but joined the Chili Peppers instead.

The 1988 overdose death of the Chili Peppers' guitarist, Hillel Slovak, was enough to convince Kiedis to enter rehab, but Forrest wasn't ready. His band was getting some buzz, and he didn't want the party to end.

That year, he was invited to talk about a new album on an L.A.-based radio show, "Loveline," but he showed up wasted. The show's host, Dr. Drew Pinsky (who would go on to create a prime time show on HLN, CNN's sister network) wrote him off as someone not long for this Earth.

"He was a horrific drug addict," Pinsky recalls. "I told him if he took care of himself he could do great things. I declared to everybody, 'This guy is dying.' There was no way he could survive that kind of addiction."

But he did, and if anything, it only got worse. By 1993, Thelonious Monster was on the verge of breaking up. Other bands were passing them by, and it ticked Forrest off. He didn't stop to think the reason might be that he, the band's front man, was a full-fledged heroin addict.

"I was crashing down," he recalls, "I spent so much money on drugs and lawyers and trying to get out of trouble that I didn't even have a place to live, even though I had albums out and was playing concerts. I had gotten to a place where I was spending $300 to $500 a day on drugs."

When the tour ended, all he had waiting for him was a crack motel. "So I just decided to go out with a bang."

He'd kill himself onstage at the annual Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands and make the front pages of newspapers around the world.

"I had planned to climb to the top" of one of the speaker towers "and jump off," he says. "That is how far gone I was -- mentally ill, drug addicted, hopeless and caught up in this whole stupid idea of what people say about me is so important, but what I internally have is just nothingness and darkness."
In the end, he couldn't do it. "I got up there and got scared. I became paralyzed."

What happened next can be seen on YouTube and is painful to watch. Back on stage, he runs in circles and tries to wrap one of his bandmates in duct tape. He gets tangled in the microphone wire, slips and falls. Someone untangles him but he just lies there, and then slowly begins to curse out Jesus.
Finally, he finds his way to a speaker, where he sits slumped over as he finishes the song.

The crowd eats it up.

Fame and flameout
Addiction's "friend" can take many forms: companions, lovers, family, managers, assistants, fans, wannabees -- even doctors

After his flirtation with death at Pinkpop, Forrest saw the powerful role the audience can play. The publicity boost his aborted suicide gave Thelonious Monster kept the band going for several more months, he says. His bad behavior was being rewarded.

"People are watching you self-destruct and then you in turn feel like you need to reciprocate with them by self-destructing."

It's a celebration of the negative -- and a constant dance in Hollywood, if headlines are any indication. In the end, only the addict can control how the journey ends. But along the way, there is no shortage of enablers.

"Michael Jackson was enabled to death," says Tatum O'Neal, a longtime friend of Jackson's who has fought addiction. "Everyone around Michael Jackson, shame on all of them," she scolds. "What no one is saying is Michael Jackson was an addict. He had no veins left. His behavior was drug-seeking."

Anyone who says so faces a Twitter fury. "They're like bullies," O'Neal says, adding that she received a barrage of hateful tweets after suggesting on Piers Morgan's show that Jackson had a problem with controlled substances. 

Mackenzie Phillips also received hate tweets after speaking out about Jackson's drug issues.

But the sad truth was borne out by testimony at the manslaughter trial of his personal doctor and underscored by Jackson's own slurred voice, captured on Conrad Murray's iPhone.

Families of celebrity addicts become the worst enablers when they have a financial stake and can't say no, Forrest says. They fear being cut off, emotionally and financially.

"If you're generating revenue, then nobody questions you," Forrest says "And so, Michael Jackson being the greatest revenue generator in music history, no one questions him. Not his family, who are living off him. Not his managers, because he can always get another manager.
Secret audio of Jackson plays in court

"I feel for the family of Michael Jackson, who have to come to grips with woulda, shoulda, coulda. They're at this dilemma constantly: 'What do we do? We can't stop him.' And you can't. With people that powerful and that wealthy, the only thing that gets them sober is the fear of death."

Murray's trial focused the national conversation on the role of unscrupulous doctors and prescription drugs in the ever-evolving world of addiction. District Attorney Steve Cooley said Murray's conviction serves as a warning to every "Dr. Feelgood."

It's about time, Forrest says.

"When Heath Ledger died, I thought people would be all over the prescription drug tsunami that is killing young people all over America," he says. "But instead, within 72 hours it was all about how Heath Ledger couldn't (move on) from 'Batman.' Where did that narrative come from? He couldn't stop being Joker? Really? That's why he choked on his own vomit? I hate to be so rude, but honesty is the only way we're going to get some sanity about this enabling."
Narcissism, unlimited cash, childhood trauma, chaotic families and star-struck hangers-on are all it takes to feed an addiction, he says, and Hollywood has those ingredients in spades. If you are famous, your doctor is impressed and even your drug dealer feels important, he adds.

Pinsky studied the link between narcissism, celebrity and addiction, and published his findings in a book, "The Mirror Effect." He says narcissism is grounded in childhood trauma that leaves a person feeling empty and incomplete. Narcissists gravitate toward fame as a way to fill the void, and addiction is another way to relieve the feeling of emptiness, he says. Celebrities are insulated and famous addicts can avoid consequences until the problem is severe.

As celebrity addicts spiral, the people around them get sleazier. "I watched that with Tom Sizemore," Forrest says. The acclaimed actor got addicted and went to jail after assaulting his girlfriend and fellow addict, Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss. "He's over two years sober now, but he just kept getting sleazier and sleazier managers and taking lamer and lamer roles," Forrest says. "You're building a career from 'Natural Born Killers' and 'Saving Private Ryan' to this slow downward spiral. Guys who don't even have offices are your manager; they manage with cell phones in their cars."

Celebrity addicts acquire "too much posse," he says, surrounding themselves with sycophants and parasites who pose as friends. Mackenzie Phillips, who relapsed after a decade of sobriety, says she moved some "old friends" -- translation: drug dealers -- into her house to keep her cocaine supply flowing.
"When you're going down like that and you're crazy, only the weirdos of Los Angeles latch on to you, because you're providing a free place to live and free drugs and free sex and cable TV," Forrest says. "The people hanging out with you are opportunistic, gutter-dwelling people. I was that, so I can judge. I was that to a lot of people in this town."

'Why does this keep happening?'

"Want to see where I died? It's right around here," Forrest says, suddenly steering his Prius off Melrose Avenue and onto LaBrea. He pulls a U-turn and glides up behind a bus in front of Pink's iconic hot dog stand, which has stood at the corner for more than 70 years; its famous chili dog is a favorite celebrity snack to top off a night of club hopping or awards show photo ops.

He idles the Prius and tells the story: It was some time in 1993 or early 1994 and he'd just gotten out of jail, scored some heroin and used the last of his money on a cab. When he overdosed in the back, the driver dumped him on the street, sometime before the sun came up. Forrest got lucky. He was near the bus stop popular with employees at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. A nurse gave him CPR and called 911.

He refused to go back to rehab because he saw his overdose as "a simple mistake." It would take a couple of more years, several more jailhouse detoxes and several more overdoses.

"Being high is extraordinary," Forrest says, "beyond the place of worry, like being safe and warm. Detox is a hell unlike any other, like a terrible flu combined with panic and fear and hate."

During detox, addicts don't sleep and can't eat. They have stomach cramps and throw up.

"You're exhausted, suicidal, crying, feeling great sadness and grief, all rolled into one big nothingness," Forrest adds. "You feel everything. One addict told me, 'My eyelashes hurt.'

"I formally detoxed 24 times in rehab. But probably 50 times I have gone through that," he says. He finally got clean in 1996 after waking up in the rain, "soaking wet, toothless and down to 120 pounds." He asked himself, "Why does this keep happening?" And then it dawned on him: It's the drugs.
Ten years after he wrote Forrest off as hopeless, Pinsky was surprised to run into him again at a seminar on chemical dependency. Forrest was a star AA sponsor by then, and was spending most of his time volunteering at the Musicians Assistance Program, helping the music industry's endless supply of addicts.

"He'd added the hat and the glasses, and I thought, 'That guy looks like Bob Forrest but there's no way Bob Forrest is alive,'" Pinsky recalls. "But it was Bob and he was working in recovery. And he was good."

Pinsksy offered Forrest a job at Las Encinas Hospital, where he was working in addiction medicine. Forrest says he took the job because he was running out of money and thought he might as well get paid for what he was already doing free. The deal struck, Pinsky advised Forrest to clean up his rock 'n' roll way of speaking, especially his penchant for dropping f-bombs.

"Get a dictionary," he said. "You work in a hospital now."

Life after heroin
Life is good when the monster is sleeping.

These days, Forrest is enjoying being present in his life. He has a year-old son named Elvis, and Forrest and his much-younger girlfriend, Sam, are fixing up a house in Encino, the suburban heart of the glitz-free San Fernando Valley.
He loves Hollywood and musicians and drug addicts, and he's cool in the manner of underground hipsters. That is unlikely to change, even if he moves to the suburbs. He's just not a Dockers kind of guy.

"I don't think you get sober to shop at Wal-Mart and become like everybody else," he says.

He buys records and devours music magazines, even if he doesn't play in the clubs anymore. He used to fear performing would make him want to get high; now he just thinks aging rockers are "pathetic."

Most weekends, he can be found on the film-festival circuit promoting "Bob and the Monster," a documentary about his life that is due in theaters in January. Later this month, he can be seen back at the Pasadena Recovery Center when VH-1 airs more installments of "Celebrity Rehab Revisited." Forrest has a book deal in the works. And there's the weekly radio show, "All up in the Interweb," on indie1031.com.

Once again, Bob Forrest is almost famous.
The radio show is a labor of love; there's no paycheck and one of his producers, "Nate the Man" Pottker, holds down a day job as Bob Forrest's favorite Starbucks barista.

"All Up in the Interweb" is laced with Forrest's social commentary and much of it centers on addiction and recovery. He believes the "anonymous" part of Alcoholics Anonymous is outdated, especially in Hollywood. Rather than protecting an addict's identity, he says, it now implies a stigma. And, asking an addict if he or she is willing to give up everything for a cure rings hollow to affluent celebrities, he says, who "are accomplished artists and musicians and have houses all over the world."

He opened Hollywood Recovery Services after growing dissatisfied with what he calls "the for-profit recovery industry" and its "cookie-cutter" emphasis on placing "heads on beds." He prefers the old-fashioned, one-on-one approach of talk therapy, and he believes it takes a year or more to fully regain sobriety -- not just the 28 days in "the rehab bubble" that is covered by insurance.
Society needs to stop looking at addiction as a moral issue, Forrest says. "When friends get cancer, everybody goes on the Internet and tries to find out everything about cancer. But when they have addiction, it's just like, 'Oh, whatever, they need to grow up.'"

The point was embraced recently by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, which updated its definition of "addiction." It is now considered a chronic brain disorder, not simply a behavioral problem.

"Let's get the stigma out of this," Tatum O'Neal agrees. "We're not bad people. We're not immoral people. We're not weak people. We're sick people, and we need help. We don't deserve the scarlet letter."

Prescription pain medications kill 15,000 people in the United States each year, more than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined, according to a report this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the center of that epidemic is Bob Forrest.

On the walls of the waiting room at Hollywood Recovery Services, he has hung two black and white photos of punk rockers. One is of Darby Crash, a heroin addict who died of an overdose. The other features Ian MacKaye, who started the "straight edge" punk movement, whose adherents avoid drugs, alcohol, promiscuous sex -- even meat.

Forrest could have gone either way, but ultimately found a third path. He didn't burn out, but he didn't fade away, either.

"I think it's extraordinary that he recovered and continued his passion for life and wanting to make changes," says Keirda Bahruth, the documentary director. "That's what the Kerouac passage was all about. He still has his youthful rebellion and hope and energy."

He remains "mad for living," as Kerouac so famously described it. "The problem is," Forrest says, "people have to stay mad for living the whole time." And so, he blends early inspiration with his own hard lessons in the lyrics of "Burn, Burn, Burn," a song he wrote for the documentary:
"Don't have a religion, but I do have faith
Love is the answer to the burnin' ache
'N friends have come, you know, 'n friends have gone
To throw your life aways, so f---in' wrong
The trick is to burn, burn, burn but don't burn out."

As Bob Forrest likes to say, "It's worth sticking around just to see what happens.""

By Ann O'Neill, CNN
updated 10:18 PM EST, Sun November 13, 2011

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/13/showbi...rrest-profile/