My Offbeat World

Drug Rehabilitation Without Substitute Drugs

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Once again I am writing about drugs. This is such a big problem with our kids today. It is all too easy for them to be drawn into taking drugs and it doesn’t seem to matter how well you have brought them up and educated them about the pitfalls and evils.

Parents need to know what is available to help their children or even other adults to overcome their addictions, whether it be drugs or drink.

The Narconon Stone Hawk drug treatment program is designed to help addicts without the use of substitute drugs. Their methods of eliminating drug addiction and alcoholism is based on a combined program of proper nutrition and nutritional supplements.

The program is neither psychiatric nor medical and success is achieved through social education.

The patients are referred to as students, there are no weekly meetings as these are seen as a crutch that is detrimental in the healing process. The program is designed to help students take control of their lives without relying on drugs or alcohol.

The Narconon Stone Hawk drug treatment program has a high success rate, so if you know of someone with a drug or alcohol addiction, contact Stone Hawk for informtion on how their program can help.

Organ Donor Week – Sign On To Save Lives

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This week is Organ donor week for 2007 has been held from 18 February to 24 February.

This is the largest public campaign dealing with organ and tissue donation.

Anyone can choose to donate organs and tissue and there is not age limit on the donation of some tissue and organs. And although anyone over 18 years can register their consent or objection, anyone under the age of 18 can register their intention or objection.

Organ and tissue donation has assisted more that 30,000 Australians in the last 60 years.

Organs include kidneys, heart, lungs, liver and pancreas.
Tissues include heart valves, bone tissue, skin tissue and eye tissue.

Just think about Fiona Coote, Australia’s first and youngest heart recipient. Her first heart transplant was performed on 8th April 1989, by Dr Victor Chan, when she was only 14 years old and two years later this heart was replaced when it began to deteriorate.

Always remember to talk to your family, partner or friends because they need to know your views on organ and tissue donation. In the event of your death, they will be consulted about your decision and to confirm that you hadn’t changed your mind since you recorded your consent.

Some family members may disagree with organ donation so make sure you communicate your views with as many family members as you can to ensure that your wishes are carried out.

The manner in which a person dies determines what organs they can donate and in most cases the heart, lungs, liver, pancreas and kidneys can only be donated if someone dies in an intensive care unit. Less that 1% of people who have been hospitalised, die in this manner.

Two qualified senior doctors carry our a series of tests to determine brain death. This is determined when the brain stops functioning without any possibility of recovery.

Why not give this important decision some real thought and pick up a brochure from your local Medicare office, phone 1800777203 or visit www.medicareaustralia.gov.au for more information.

SIGN ON TO SAVE LIVES.

Water Issues – Evian = Naive

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I have just purchased an awesome water filter and cooler apparatus. With the summer months I have been consuming much more water than usual. The filtered water tastes much nicer that straight tap water. Although once Brisbane changes to using recycled sewerage I will stick to bottled water or will be making sure the filter has an absolute pore size of 1 micron or less.

I always believed the health professionals adage that we must drink a minimum of 8 glasses of water a day. Well now I know that this is just another fallacy. In fact you can drown internally if you drink too much water and go into a fluid induced coma and die.

Now I don’t know about you but that doesn’t seem like a healthy lifestyle to me.

I subscribe to Dr William Douglass and he has been very vocal for many years about the dangers of drinking too much water, for quite some time. Dr Douglass gives the
background to how this myth came into being and points out about how everyone used to carry around Evian bottled water this exercise of course made Evian a very rich company.

Guess what Evian is spelt backwards. Yep you got it – naive. And I think that is what we are when it comes to many health related issues. We blindly follow
what the health industry tell us, and who advises them what to say – the multi national Pharmaceutical companies.

William Douglass also dispels many of the other myths that have been perpetrated by the health industry. So if you are interested in finding out some of
these fallacies then sign up for his free newsletter, I find it full of interesting information.

Of course he sells health products but you aren’t under any obligation to buy anything. And I am only interested in the information he provides.