Getting sober and clean because of a desire to get the job back or keep the wife is temporary. Lasting recovery begins with surrender due to a severe beating.
Dr. Peter A. Butkins, LMT
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Family Unity - not Medication.
Medication offers a 'quick fix' which all addicts want. However, the process of staying sober and clean after getting sober and clean demands work over two to five years. Initial minimal substance abuse treatment, 4-5 hours per week, when combi...
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Spiritual Conversion, not Medication!
Recovery from a "hopeless state of mind and body" requires faith that is sufficient enough to stop the cravings and help the addict/alcoholic to enter treatment. This is necessary. I get high and drunk and we set sober and clean.
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Addiction is Killing us as a Country
The impact of alcohol and/or drug abuse is causing impairment in politics, education, business and parenting. It is ruining our families. Our greatest ally is accurate and appropriate information on substance abuse.
Doc Pete
Addiction must be brought out into the open and not just mentioned when there is an overdose. We must publicize the solution and the joys of sobriety.
Dr. Peter A. Butkins
When parents unintentionally protects their child from an alcoholic consequence, the behavior is rewarded and reoccurs. This results in a reinfrcing of the sick mindset that intoxication is justified and can be repeated. No consequences mean no change.
Dr. Peter A. Butkins
I work with many addicts and alcoholics who cut back or quit in their earlier years and then have a serious problem when they get out of control two, three, five or ten years later. They are not aware of the choinicity of addiction. It requires daily treatment taught by twelve step members who teach vigilance, consistency and model the joy of doing this.
Doc Pete
The storm tested my love and tolerance. At 72 years old, I still can have peace within the storm, just not all the time.
The enablers shield the person from the motivation to stop. This is not intentional. This supposedly relieves the stress from the family and the addict. However, it allows the person to continue to abuse because others are making it comfortable.
Dr. P. Butkins
We can find 'peace within the storm' (Alcoholics anonymous, 1939).
Doc Pete
Families should teach Unity and speak out against intoxication and drug abuse.
Dr. Peter A. Butkins, LMT
One in about ten is an addict anywhere you go. We cannot drink or or use drugs safely. End of story.
Dr. Peter A. Butkins
Our children rely on us to show them the right path. They do what we do. We must teach the truth about addiction. We are obligated to teach values, love for others and for God.
Doc Pete
Our children are suggestible. Look at what has happened with alcohol. Kids drink because the message is that it's ok, it's legal. Conversely, the message with cigarettes is that it's lethal. They know this and fewer are smoking.
Let's protect our kids, not our job security, not our pocket books.
Dr. Peter A. Butkins. LMT
Colorado has seen an increase in marijuana related traffic deaths, poison control calls, and emergency room visits.
The marijuana black market has increased in Colorado, not decreased. And, numerous Colorado marijuana regulators have been indicted for corruption.
In 2012, we were promised funds from marijuana taxes would benefit our communities, particularly schools. Dr. Harry Bull, the Superintendent of Cherry Creek Schools, one of the largest school districts in the state, said, "So far, the only thing that the legalization of marijuana has brought to our schools has been marijuana."
There was an 87 percent increase in drivers testing positive for marijuana who were involved in fatal crashes from 2013 to 2015. The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact Vol. 4/September 2016.
The above statistic was taken from a report by Colorado's Dept. of Public Safety:
Colorado Department of Public Safety, Division of Criminal Justice, Office of Research and Statistics, “Marijuana Legalization in Colorado: Early Findings/A Report Pursuant to Senate Bill 13-283,” March 2016
How about a call to action? What about our children? They are suggestible!
What about our future? It is important!!
How do we stop the greed and power mongering that drives this legislation? We speak out against it. I don't debate with drug affected, rigid drug users but I will have a voice.
Join me and My Freedom Quest on the journey to a healthy World.
Doc Pete
Recovery takes much prayer and work on self.
Dr. Peter A. Butkins
Addiction recovery means that we accept ourselves as broken, work on mending by making up for the harm done to others and help other addicts/alcoholics to live again. We learn to see our addiction as a means to peace and usefulness - fulfillment.
Doc Pete
About 43% of U.S. adults, 76 million people, have had alcoholism in the family. www.alcoholism-statistics.com/family-statistics (2013).
Over the decades, it always comes back to alcoholism.
Doc Pete
Let others know what you and God and family and 12 step members have accomplished. Tell them how it works!!!
Bog on this site and share your experience so others can get hope.
Doc Pete
Addicts and alcoholics have to learn from pain and loss. There is no other way.
Doc Pete
Intellectualizing and rationalizing are old defense mechanisms that keep up in the dark, away from the pain of the consequences of our abusive actions when high or in active addiction. Good thinking must be learned from those who have 'been there.' Our old thinking must be replaced with health thoughts of the joy that comes when sober and clean.
Doc Pete
To stay sober and clean, we must be useful to God and others. Enhancement of our spiritual lives is necessary.
Doc Pete