July 29, 2004 at 11:08 pm ·
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A good friend notes "The Internet has turned into one big drug distribution center. A large portion of spam is about" drugs.
This has not gone unnoticed. It seems all-too-easy to get drugs; yet, my work centers around not prevention but rather early intervention. These drug users are all around us, usually going undetected because those close don't know that the occasional out-of-control behaviors they witness or hear about are subtle clues to addiction.
The tragedy stems from the myth that "I don't do drugs" if the drugs are legal. Hardly anyone seems to grasp the idea that a drug capable of causing distortions of perception and memory, damaging the neo-cortex and allowing the limbic system a controlling interest does the same ...
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July 22, 2004 at 12:14 am ·
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From a note July 21, 2004, Robert Prechter writes: I am convinced that no person should graduate in psychology without reading your book. It will save any psychologist months and years of wasted time with patients.
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July 8, 2004 at 8:09 am ·
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It seems a rather long jump from the letter written on speeders
to the assumption that they (or even some of them) are alcholics.
I am not even sure that the writers would approve of that leap.
Perhaps you could modify this somehow to indicate the "possiblity"
that "some" of these offenders are under the influence.
My response:
Actually, I disagree that this is a leap. There are few if any non-alcoholics who would attain such speeds in what is obviously a residential area--even when young. Alcoholism is almost always triggered during the first drinking episode, average age 13 in the U.S. This degree of speed almost requires an alcoholic sense of invincibility. The National Highway Safety Transportation Administration conducted a study of driving misbehaviors and ...
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July 8, 2004 at 7:59 am ·
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My letter to the editor of the Frazier Park Mountain Enterprise, in response to a letter writer's urging of community support for speed bumps in Pine Mountain Club (about an hour north of Los Angeles):
Dear Editor,
Paul Puskar and Ronni Wilde have clocked cars doing 75 mph in a 25 mph zone in Pine Mountain Club. Such speeds remind me of Henri Paul, who drove himself and Princess Diana to their deaths at 90 mph in a 35 mph zone.
Henri Paul was a highly tolerant alcoholic whose blood alcohol level (BAL) was .18 per cent when he died. This is the equivalent of two bottles of wine, or twelve shots of 80-proof liquor in four hours for a 200-pound ...
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July 8, 2004 at 7:44 am ·
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My letter to the editor of the Daily News, responding to an editorial dated July 6, 2004, suggesting that we should no more tolerate barbaric prisons in California than in Iraq:
As in Iraq, the worst abuses are likely alcohol-fueled. If we really don't want to tolerate barbarism and truly wish to clean up the prisons, we need to test the guards and staff for possible alcoholism.
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