Wonderland Recovery Blog

Here’s an article regarding the meth epidemic in Northern California and a quick piece about one man’s battle and recovery from crystal meth. A good piece talking about the crackdown on meth dealers in California.

Here’s the link:

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=39944

http://www.news10.net/includes/buildasx.aspx?fn=/march2008/032608/web-crystal-darkness.wmv&sp=mms://wm.kxtv.gannett.edgestreams.net/ads/sales/chaquico-032208.wmv

A website based on WMAQ Chicago listed an article published in this month’s Journal of Psychiatry, talking about the perils of internet addiction. Check it out below.

http://www.nbc5.com/health/15705275/detail.html

Talking about the dangers of salvia!

See the video here.

Here’s an article in the New York Times about one woman’s experience with painkiller addiction. Taking up to 50 Vicodin a day? Crazy! But a good story of hope and recovery, and gaining one’s life back from the struggles of addiction.

Here’s the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/jobs/23pre.html?ex=1363924800&en=7a0e9ee06954d9eb&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Interesting video on the CNN website talking about the binge drinking epidemic in Britain. There are a lot of good points brought up in this short video…a good sample of what binge drinking can do to people.

Here’s the link:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2008/02/22/kelly.uk.binge.drinking.itn?iref=videosearch

MUST SEE TV!: Our very own Dr. Howard Samuels confronts “Frank the Drug Dealer” over his denial of the abuse of Salvia! In Wonderland’s continuing crusade against the hallucinogenic drug, Howard goes head-to-head with “Frank” on
FOX NEWS–”THE MIKE AND JULIET SHOW”–Tuesday morning, March 25th at 10:00 am. It’s a broadcast you won’t want to miss as Howard debates the perils of Salvia.

http://www.mandjshow.com/

A couple of weeks ago, Newsweek printed their cover story on finding an addiction vaccine. I think the breadth and depth of the article was amazing- great coverage on new work with the medical side of treatment and the innovations in the recovery process, as well as combining it with a program of recovery.

Thoughts?

Here’s the article:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/114716

“What Addicts Need”

Why do so many in recovery ignore the single biggest killer among us - smoking tobacco. The United Nations (UN) estimates that the conflict in Darfur has left as many as 200,000 dead from violence and disease. How many people die each year from smoking cigarettes?

The Sudanese government has suppressed information by jailing and killing witnesses since 2004 and tampered with evidence such as mass graves to eliminate their forensic values. In addition, by obstructing and arresting journalists, the Sudanese government has been able to obscure much of what has gone on.

The CDC’s official estimate that Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 430,000 deaths each year. Paralleling this enormous health toll is the economic burden of tobacco use: between $50 billion and $73 billion in medical expenditures and another $50 billion in indirect costs. WOW!

HERE ARE SOME CAUSES OF DEATH…
Alcohol-induced deaths 19,086
Assault (homicide) 16,831
Drug-induced deaths 18,443
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease 14,681
Injury by firearms 28,839
Motor Vehicle Accidents 46,378

Recovery needs to extend to smoking. Nicotine is a drug. If your mother never told you, smoking is bad for your health.

Alex

The title of the panel was “Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll” and it lived up to its name. The moderator was Leigh Brecheen of Bloom, Hergott, Diemer, Rosenthal, LaViolette & Feldman and the panelists included Blair Berk of Tarlow & Berk, Howard Bragman of Fifteen Minutes, Larry Stein of Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods George and our own Bernadine Fried, MFT the Clinical Director of Wonderland Center.

The panel explored how to respond to a client’s personal crisis involving sex, drugs or the criminal justice system using a multidisciplinary team approach. The professionals discussed techniques from a inal, civil, public relations and psychological perspective. Each panelist shared stories that would make a successful episode of reality TV. Our panelists explained the challenges of representing artists, actors, musicians and athletes whose “outrageous” behavior forces the professional to maintain their ethical standards even if it means loosing a client.

We have a new meeting at 626 N. Robertson Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 every Thursday at 8pm in the small room at the West Hollywood Drug and Alcohol Center. The entrance is on the South side of the building, a different meeting starts at 8pm in the large room on the North side of the building.

The meeting format is one hour, speaker/participation, speaker for 20 minutes, sharing and Q&A for 35 minutes. The meeting is Open. Entrepreneurs share about recovery and their business experiences. We share our experience, strength and hope in business and the benefits of taking our recovery into our companies. We hope our experiences help other entrepreneurs create recovery aware work environments, successfully start or expand their businesses and be of service to their community, their customers, their employees and members of the Recovery community.

Come join us…