The First Three Steps are Your Own Doing Never Alone Again for You have travelled ... Beyond the Light !!! Twelve Step programs are well known for their use in treating addictive and dysfunctional behaviors. The first 12 step program began with Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.)in the 1930s and has since grown to be the most widely used approach in dealing not only with recovery from alcoholism, but also from drug abuse and various other addictive and dysfunctional behaviors. The … [Read more...]
Dr. Mercola: 90 Year-Old Powerful Natural Cancer Therapy
July 16, 2012 by
90 Year-Old Powerful Natural Cancer Therapy Now on iTunes: http://www.iTunes.com/Movies/TheBeautifulTruth For more info: http://www.newvideo.com/new-video-digital/the-beautiful-truth/ Raised on a wildlife reserve in Alaska, 15-year-old Garrett was interested in the dietary habits of the farm animals. After the tragic death of his mother, Garrett's father decided to home-school his son and assigned a book written by Dr. Max Gerson that proposed a direct link … [Read more...]
Ginger Katz Taking Action at The Courage to Speak® Foundation, Summer 2012
July 11, 2012 by
The Courage to Speak® Foundation June 2012 Welcome to Our Summer 2012 Newsletter! BOOK A PRESENTATION FOR FALL OR WINTER TODAY! The 14th Annual Ian James Eaccarino Memorial 9-Mile Race, July 28, 2012 Tip of the Month Keep Your Kids Drug Free This Summer The Courage to Speak Foundation has a New Website & Blog! Sunny's Story: How to Save a Young Life From Drugs IN THE NEWS: Parent tells of son's struggle with drug … [Read more...]
HEROINE – History & Hope for Solutions
May 11, 2012 by
Heroin was first synthesized in 1874 by C. R. Alder Wright, an English chemist working at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, England. He had been experimenting with combining morphine with various acids. He boiled anhydrous morphine alkaloid with acetic anhydride over a stove for several hours and produced a more potent, acetylated form of morphine, now called diacetylmorphine. The compound was sent to F. M. Pierce of Owens College in Manchester for analysis, who reported the … [Read more...]
Women in Recovery ~ Addiction + or – Bi-polarism, Alexis Chapman
April 1, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women has been inspired to share the life bloggings of a real woman in recovery ... please welcome Alexis. Awakening Ever stare in the mirror wishing your reflection had a voice of its own? I’ve spent the past few evenings gazing at my image in the mirror, wishing that my id would speak to me. Unanswered questions, doubt and fear were written all over my face and I couldn’t grasp on to a reason why. Shouldn’t there be some deeper meaning, some … [Read more...]
The Courage to Speak Foundation – Empowering Youth – March 20, 2011
March 5, 2012 by
You're Invited! Click here to view the press release Click here to view the program There's still time to become a sponsor of this amazing event! Email [email protected] or fill out the sponsorship agreement and mail to The Courage to Speak Foundation, 161 East Ave., Suite 14, Norwalk, CT 06851. Please visit our Foundation website www.couragetospeak.org Please visit the Sunny's Story website www.sunnysstory.com The Courage to … [Read more...]
Ginger Katz at SAMSHA,Washington, D.C. – FEB 6
February 5, 2012 by
The Courage to Speak® Foundation to Present at National Forum, in Washington D.C. The Courage to Speak Foundation has been invited by SAMHSA (US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) to CADCA’s (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America) 22nd Annual National Leadership Forum to share the Courage to Speak Drug Prevention Programs with coalitions throughout the nation at Prevention Day on February 6th at the Gaylord Conference Center in the Washington DC … [Read more...]
Ginger Katz: Gaylord Convention Center,Washington DC Area – Feb. 6
January 31, 2012 by
The Courage to Speak® Foundation Invited to Present at National Forum The Courage to Speak Foundationhas been invited by SAMHSA, US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to share the Courage to Speak Programs with coalitions throughout the nation on... Prevention Day at CADCA's 22nd Annual National Leadership Forum (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of … [Read more...]
WOMEN in RECOVERY : Dr. Peggy L. Ferguson Phd. – ‘Finding LOVE in Recovery’
December 11, 2011 by
LOVE in RECOVERY.... You Will Find at the Right Time. Sometimes in early recovery, when you know that you are "working a good program", you may feel like something is still missing. You're still clean and sober. You are going to meetings. You are showing up for work everyday. You are starting to get your bills caught up. The important people in your life are remarking about how well you are doing. Yet, there still seems to be an absence of something important. We may not be developing … [Read more...]
Toronto Harm Reduction Task Force – July 25
July 7, 2011 by
You’re invited to the launch of the Toronto Harm Reduction Task Force 2011 Peer-Driven Community Based Research Project: 511 – “User Friendly” Services in Toronto Join us to hear about what users told us about what they need, and what they like about services in our city... FOOD, HOUSING, CLOTHING, HARM REDUCTION... Monday July 25th, 2011 at 2:30 pm. Queen West Community Health Centre – 168 Bathurst Street Toronto · Everyone is most welcome! · Highlights of the project and … [Read more...]
Ginger Katz is Taking Action from Norwalk, USA w. husband Larry !
July 7, 2011 by
Larry and Ginger Katz have several gardens at their Norwalk home. One is dedicated to Ian James Eaccarino. Norwalker Ginger Katz, with the support of her husband Larry, wants to raise an army. It is her goal — her wish — to see a battalion of mothers shout out in one singular voice that they will not be silent about the ravages of drug addiction. “Could you imagine if all of the moms who lost a child to addiction got together, how powerful that would be?” Ginger says on her patio … [Read more...]
Avaaz.org – The World's Most Senseless War
May 26, 2011 by
Dear friends, In days, a group of powerful world leaders will ask the UN to end the war on drugs and move towards regulation. But politicians say that the public will not support alternative drug policies. Let's give this unique opportunity massive public support and get urgent action. Sign below, and tell everyone: In days, we could finally see the beginning of the end of the ‘war on drugs’. This expensive war has completely failed to curb the plague of drug addiction,while costing … [Read more...]
