Comments for Guide4Living http://www.guide4living.com/notes Guide4Living - Breast Cancer - HIV - MS - Parkinsons - Drug Abuse Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:58:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 Comment on Lung Cancer by Monica http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/06/28/to-be-updated-4/#comment-319 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:11:42 +0000 http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/06/28/to-be-updated-4/#comment-319 My mother, a non-smoker all her 79 years, has just been diagnosed with small cell cancer. You do NOT have to be a smoker to get this. My mother, a non-smoker all her 79 years, has just been diagnosed with small cell cancer. You do NOT have to be a smoker to get this.

]]> Comment on Addiction by Papa http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/06/28/to-be-updated-2/#comment-264 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:57:01 +0000 http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/06/28/to-be-updated-2/#comment-264 We are starting to hear about teens abusing prescription drugs, but the problem is big enough to get a lot more attention than it is getting now. My son went from being a pride-and-joy Catholic Middle Schooler to being a full blown high school opiate addict within six months. I will leave out the details, but he started using oxycontin (the "OC" marked stuff from Purdue Pharma)at 15 years old when he was introduced to it by his "new artistic" friends when he transfered to the public high school in our affluent neighborhood. It got worse fast. By sixteen, he was head-over-heals addicted - and I mean ADDICTED. I have no idea where he got the money, but he was constantly either zombied and falling asleep everywhere, or he was in a frenzy for the drug; scratching and clawing at his arms and panic dialing on his cell phone. He was a habitual run-away. The worst of the worst. By seventeen, he was an IV user, mixing oxycontin with water and injecting into his veins with syringes he proudly got for free at the local AIDS clinic. He was thrown in jail for nearly three months at seventeen for possession of a large amount of oxy. Today a couple of years later, he is a full-blown heroin addict. One day, he will get the wrong batch of heroin and have an overdose. Then, he will be a statistic as a victim of heroin overdose. In reality, it he is victim of prescription oxycontin. It hasn't killed him physically yet, but for all practical purposes, he is only half-alive. He doesn't do anything other than survive for his next fix. Today's biggest drug pusher to our young teens are the big pharmeseutical companies rather than the old school pusher on the corner. The beat goes on. My son didn't think that Oxy was dangerous because it was a prescription drug. Then, he swore he would never go to the needle. Then he swore he would never use heroin. Who knows who he is swearing to, but he has broken every promise to himself and others. These tragic stories seem to have no beginning and no end. One generation of addicts replaces the next. We are starting to hear about teens abusing prescription drugs, but the problem is big enough to get a lot more attention than it is getting now.

My son went from being a pride-and-joy Catholic Middle Schooler to being a full blown high school opiate addict within six months.

I will leave out the details, but he started using oxycontin (the “OC” marked stuff from Purdue Pharma)at 15 years old when he was introduced to it by his “new artistic” friends when he transfered to the public high school in our affluent neighborhood.

It got worse fast. By sixteen, he was head-over-heals addicted - and I mean ADDICTED. I have no idea where he got the money, but he was constantly either zombied and falling asleep everywhere, or he was in a frenzy for the drug; scratching and clawing at his arms and panic dialing on his cell phone. He was a habitual run-away. The worst of the worst.

By seventeen, he was an IV user, mixing oxycontin with water and injecting into his veins with syringes he proudly got for free at the local AIDS clinic.

He was thrown in jail for nearly three months at seventeen for possession of a large amount of oxy.

Today a couple of years later, he is a full-blown heroin addict. One day, he will get the wrong batch of heroin and have an overdose. Then, he will be a statistic as a victim of heroin overdose.

In reality, it he is victim of prescription oxycontin. It hasn’t killed him physically yet, but for all practical purposes, he is only half-alive. He doesn’t do anything other than survive for his next fix.

Today’s biggest drug pusher to our young teens are the big pharmeseutical companies rather than the old school pusher on the corner.

The beat goes on. My son didn’t think that Oxy was dangerous because it was a prescription drug. Then, he swore he would never go to the needle. Then he swore he would never use heroin. Who knows who he is swearing to, but he has broken every promise to himself and others.

These tragic stories seem to have no beginning and no end. One generation of addicts replaces the next.

]]> Comment on Alzheimers by Elaine Coyle http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/06/28/to-be-updated-9/#comment-18 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:01:44 +0000 http://www.guide4living.com/notes/2006/06/28/to-be-updated-9/#comment-18 My mother has alzheimer's. She is 91 years old. Today she slapped the caregiver hard enouch to make a red mark on her face. Help! What can I do to help the caregiver know that she will not have this experience again. My mother has alzheimer’s. She is 91 years old. Today she slapped the caregiver hard enouch to make a red mark on her face.

Help! What can I do to help the caregiver know that she will not have this experience again.

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