Friends of Narconon is a non-profit, public benefit, charitable organization providing anti-drug abuse information, education and rehabilitation services to reduce the drug problem in society. http://www.friendsofnarconon.org Wed, 22 May 2013 21:28:43 +0000 FeedCreator 1.6 http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/images/M_images/mos_rss.png http://www.friendsofnarconon.org Friends of Narconon Intl http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/news/latest_news/friends_of_narconon_president%27s_briefing--issue_104/ Good Drugs or Bad Drugs?When your kid is being wheeled out of the operating room after having his appendix surgically removed and the medical personnel are getting ready to administer morphine to ease his pain, are you going to say, Drugs are bad. Don't do drugs. ? When your kid gets jed@getcured.org Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:21:42 +0000 http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/news/latest_news/friends_of_narconon_president%27s_briefing--issue_103/ Clueless About Drugs and EmotionEarlier we had done a quiz on What emotion does drug use begin with? At that time 62% had answered incorrectly and 38% answered correctly - Boredom. The follow-up quiz to this was What is the cause of Boredom . We had a lot of great answers jed@getcured.org Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:24:32 +0000 http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/news/latest_news/friends_of_narconon_president%27s_briefing--issue_102/ Who's Job is it Anyway?When we think about family and we think about our home and who keeps it all together, many of us can agree that mothers are usually the ones to do that. Whether there is a problem within the marriage or not, when kids are involved, most jed@getcured.org Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:43:30 +0000 http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/news/latest_news/friends_of_narconon_president%27s_briefing--issue_101/ Iraq is Not The Only War Costing America BillionsWhat problem costs the American economy more than $100 billion every year? What problem causes employers to incur a 300 percent increase in medical costs and benefits? What problem is being addressed by large companies but neglected by small businesses?The answer is jed@getcured.org Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:56:23 +0000 http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/news/latest_news/friends_of_narconon_president%27s_briefing--issue_100/ Are We Making A Difference?This is our 100th briefing and I decided that we should do a quick check to see if this good work we are all doing is making any difference. So I looked up some recent research that means something. While we gather successes from schools week jed@getcured.org Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:34:13 +0000 http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/news/latest_news/friends_of_narconon_president%27s_briefing--issue_99/ Marketing Drugs to The MassesIn a previous article we talked about a natural hallucinogenic drug that was easily available over the internet. These types of websites actually are called No Prescription Websites (NPWs) which offer to sell controlled substances without a valid prescription. NPWs were first recognized by the U.S. jed@getcured.org Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:29:50 +0000 http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/news/latest_news/friends_of_narconon_president%27s_briefing--issue_98/ Once it was thought that a person was a drug addict or alcoholic only if he needed the drug daily, or if he went through withdrawal symptoms (vomiting, seizures, cramps, death) when he abruptly stopped using the substance.It was thought that alcoholics and drug addicts were unemployed, poor, and from jed@getcured.org Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:28:10 +0000 http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/news/latest_news/friends_of_narconon_president%27s_briefing--issue_97/ Nearly 10 Million Kids Reached!I wanted to share with all of you some good news. I just tallied up the total number of kids that Friends of Narconon has reached with our Narconon Drug Education video program since 1995. Are you ready? 9,168,955 students reached, this is a cumulative total. jed@getcured.org Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:55:22 +0000 http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/news/latest_news/friends_of_narconon_president%27s_briefing--issue_96/ Will History Repeat Itself? As we look over the halls of history we find that in the early days, before there were laws on various drugs, governments had their hand in the cookie jar of the drug trade. In the last article we talked about a War that jed@getcured.org Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:49:00 +0000 http://www.friendsofnarconon.org/news/latest_news/friends_of_narconon_president%27s_briefing--issue_95/ Not a single thing was stirring, not even a mouse! If you have ever had mice in your home, then you no doubt tried many things to catch them. Cheese is among one of the well known items used to catch mice. Well now drug dealers are using Cheese to catch jed@getcured.org Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:27:01 +0000