Today is International Drug Overdose Awareness Day
We would like you to contemplate the effects that drugs have had on you or someone you know on this day.
We've spent a lot of time on this blog going over and over again the phenomenon of prescription drug abuse and how it leads to:
a) heroin addiction (when the expensive prescription meds become too hard to get)
b) drug overdose (from prescription drugs or from heroin)
Our facility and many other excellent watchdog entities (like StopOxy.com) are trying to sound the alarm about prescription drugs.
Today, August 31st 2010 is International Overdose Awareness Day. This is a day of awareness that was spearheaded by the Salvation Army. 
Today please take a moment to contemplate the devastating effect that overdoses have had on people you may have known (or even yourself). Think about people like Len Bias, Jimi Hendrix, Heath Ledger, and John Belushi for whom a drug overdose ended the lives of those who had so much potential. The list can go on... ad infinitum.
I am thinking now of some of the men and women who I've met and lost in this journey of recovery. I encourage you to do the same. Please feel free to leave a comment about it.
Drug Awareness
We live in a day and age that is far too accepting of things. Violence walks side-by-side with harmony; while pain and heartbreak are on a double-date with love and affection. The fact of the matter is that most of us walk around blind-folded, completely oblivious and naive to the world around us and its negative influences. Even when these influences are spotted more than half of us ignore it, especially when it comes to drugs. People make justifications and excuses saying that “it’s none of their business.” But when does it become your business? When it takes over your sister? Your husband or wife? Your children?...You? It needs to be confronted before that. The power of drugs is incredible, but not unbeatable. We need to take back our community and push out the negative influences of drugs. Drugs are not invincible opponents but I can promise you that the battle will be long and hard. I know all about it, I’ve been swallowed by the deepest darkest depths of the drug world. I continued to dig myself deeper into my own grave and I learned quickly that it doesn’t stop after six feet. I kept falling and there was no one there to catch me. There was no such thing as rock bottom; it just got gradually worse over and over again. I was laying face down in the mud with no one there to help me because I had pushed them all away. Life becomes dark and meaningless when no one is around so I sat and withered in my own self afflicted disease of addiction. There was no truth in anything and reality no longer existed. This was no way to live and I would wish it upon no one. Drugs destroy lives and massacre relationships. It’s our job as decent human-beings to repair these lives and relationships by helping these people out of despair. We need to destroy these negative influences as soon as they are revealed. No more turning the other way and pretending it’s not your problem because it will become your problem eventually one way or another. It is time to confront this drug issue face-to-face and not back down; it’s time to win this battle.