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Subject: Serenity Prayer
To: mark@markelliot.com
Hi Mark,
In the doctors office the other day I got through the first part of the
Serenity Prayer and realized why I have a problem with that prayer.
Serenity to accept the things I cannot change. I would clam up when I
said that part of the prayer.
I don't want to accept the things that have happened to me that I cannot
change. |
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Britons spend £6.6bn a
year on drugs
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More than 3m people
spend a total of over £6.6bn a year on illegal drugs,
according to the first official estimate of the size of the
British drugs market.
The Home Office
figures show that cannabis smokers spend an average of £498
a year on their drugs, ecstasy users £681, and that it costs
£15,000 a year to feed a weekly heroin habit.
More...
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U.S.
Survey Says 60,000 in D.C. Are Addicts
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WASHINGTON - About 60,000 District residents -- more than one in 10
-- are addicted to illegal drugs or alcohol, D.C. health officials
have concluded after a door-to-door survey.
The survey of 15,035 households, conducted last December, is the most
comprehensive snapshot of substance abuse ever taken in the city, D.C.
government officials said. Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) plans to
release the study at a news conference today and announce a goal of
reducing the number of addicts by 25,000 by 2005.
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DRUGS:
WHY DO
THEY DO IT?
Pravda.ru
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With all the
information available nowadays about how dangerous it
is to use intravenous drugs, the question remains:
Why?
The European
Observatory on Drugs and Addiction (EODA) has
conducted a study into this area, the results of which
are now available.
Vitor, 32 years old but looking more like 50,
indicates parking spaces in central Lisbon. In return
for 50 cents, he promises to look after your car while
you go shopping and promises “it won’t get scratched”,
leaving the insinuation clear in the air that if there
is no payment, the result will be a long and deep scar
along the side of the car, from bonnet to boot,
engraved with a key.
“I started on “smack” (heroin) when I was 12. Started
on hash and went on to this. It felt great at the
time. Now I can’t get off it”.
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For
Partygoers Who Can't Say No, Experts Try to Reduce the Risks
Despite frequent admonitions to
"just say no," some people — from their teens to well past middle age —
will use drugs anyway. Acknowledging that reality, some experts on
drug abuse are advocating an approach called harm reduction, which says,
in essence, that while drug use should be discouraged, people who do
take drugs should be taught to do so in the least dangerous way
possible.
Harm reduction is controversial. Proponents say it can save lives, but
critics say it means giving up on the drug problem, and may condone drug
use and lull people into thinking drugs are safe.
(Free Registration Req'd)
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Cigarette Use Linked to Blue-Collar Occupations
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although the
number of Americans who smoke cigarettes has decreased in
recent years, the decline has not penetrated all occupations,
according to a government study that links smoking to job and
sector.
So-called ``blue-collar'' workers, such as builders, movers
and auto mechanics are more likely to light up than are their
''white-collar'' counterparts, according to lead author Dr. Ki
Moon Bang, of the National Institute for Occupations Safety
and Health. The findings, he said, may be useful in
identifying populations that could benefit from education and
outreach.
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U.K. Drink-drive casualties
highest for ten years
THE number of people killed and injured by drink-drivers rose to its
highest level for a decade last year.
Accident figures published yesterday revealed that 520 people died
in crashes in which a driver was found to be over the limit, compared
with 460 in 1999. A further 17,500 people were injured in such
accidents, up by more than 1,000.
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Dr Steven R. Miller Ph.D
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Thursday, September 27, 2001
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