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To: mark@markelliot.com
Subject: Any Suggestions?

Dear Mr. Elliot,

My parents are frequent listeners of your show on CFRB and are aware of your ability to reach people who feel they are beyond hope. I am writing in hope of gaining some suggestions from you, to help my family (this includes myself) deal with my younger brother's addiction problems, as well as ways to help my brother. I am trying to write this objectively, but I know it's going to sound judgmental.

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Prime Numbers: What Science and Crime Have in Common

When Julius Caesar was touring the Spanish city of Cadiz in his early 30's, the ancient Roman biographer Suetonius reports, he came across a statue of Alexander the Great and wept beside it. Alexander at the same age had conquered the known world, while Caesar was just a minor Roman official, a source of severe chagrin to the ambitious future autocrat. (Free Registration Req'd) More...

With Injection Sites, Canadian Drug Policy Seeks a Fix

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Her fingers travel up and down her arm, feeling for a good vein. Lori-Kim Veenstra opens a $7 bag of methamphetamine and pours some of the crystals onto a clean spoon. She opens a tiny blue bottle of sterile water and fills the spoon, waiting for the chemical to dissolve. Sometimes junkies use water from puddles to break down their drugs, sometimes soda pop or toilet water. Sometimes they use their own blood.
Not here. Veenstra, 40, is in a clinic at the Dr. Peter Centre, where junkies who test positive for HIV can shoot up safely under supervision. This is one of the first of what are called "safe injection sites" in North America. More...

Patti Zettel, a nurse who works at a safe injection site at the Dr. Peter Centre in Vancouver, helps Lori-Kim Veenstra, a drug addict for 30 years, prepare her fix. (Photos Deneen L. Brown -- The Washington Post)

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MONTREAL — A newly approved drug will take the medication to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder out of the principal's office, a Montreal child psychiatrist says.

Diane Sauriol said the drug Concerta - to be made available in Canada this month - is effective for 12 hours, unlike the current ADHD medication Ritalin, which lasts up to about half that time. Concerta was recently approved by Health Canada.

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Imagine being addicted to a drug like heroin and trying to find an effective remedy that works fast and keeps you from going back again.

How about Spit- therapy? That’s one where other addicts in treatment spit on you as a punishment for wrong-thinking. Never heard of it?

Well, how about Desert Therapy? As one organization explains it: "providers who are committed to the utilization of outdoor modalities to assist young people and their families to make positive change."

Never mind that it’s for 21 days where nothing is done to address the issues of addiction, except to place the addict somewhere not listed in the Zip Code Directory…Sound good? More...

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