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Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System
 
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"Deeply felt, deftly rendered, stunningly informative and often enraging" (Publishers Weekly), Hooked appears as we are finally waking up to the inadequacies of our current drug-rehab policies. With court-mandated rehab being debated across the country, Shavelson's in-depth look at the struggles of five addicts as they travel through the treatment maze makes a powerful case for reform.

Highly readable and shaped by Shavelson's experience as a journalist and physician, Hooked takes us through the anguishing "intake" and controversial House meetings, inside counselors' and judges' offices where many treatment decisions are made, and to prison cells where, under current policies, many addicts end up. It explores the links between drug addiction, mental illness, and trauma, including child abuse—links often ignored by current rehab efforts—and argues for an integrated approach that treats the roots of drug abuse, not just the behavior itself.

Hailed as "compelling" and "heartbreaking" (Time Out), Hooked offers a provocative, honest look at the seemingly intractable issue of drug addiction, and offers powerful alternatives to our current policies.

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Hooked
 
Review Date: March 3, 2010
Reviewer: J. Segalla, Milford, CT
This book came in good condition and in good timing but it is not what is shown in the picture/description -- a little disappointed.
Wordy but insightful...
 
Review Date: March 1, 2010
Reviewer: S. Ferguson,
If you are in the addictions field, this book is good for opening your eyes to the other side of the issue. It has in depth encounters with other treatment facilities and shows where they go wrong and what they do right. This book does show the flaws in the system. Worth a read, even if it does go on and on about certain things that really aren't necessary.
Hooked: A must-read for the curious, the professional, and the taxpayers.
 
Review Date: July 18, 2007
Reviewer: Edward J. Hendel, Maryland
Hooked is a facinating story of five peoples lives and should be read for this alone. The author does a great job of telling their stories. Painlessly wrapped inside these stories is a Masters Degree on the drug treatment system.

Hooked will give you an insight into drug treatment systems without the bias of the creators. Hooked will give you years of development history and terminology.

Finally, if your state or county is going to start or start-over a drug treatment program Hooked will tell you the best approach. The approach selected has results that clearly make it the plan of choice. (Read the book for the answer.)
Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System
 
Review Date: January 4, 2007
Reviewer: Laura S. Holmlund, Havre, Montana
I work in the drug-use prevention field. I purchased this book for my own education. I became emotionally involved in the lives of the drug addicts featured in the book. It was beneficial to learn about their backgrounds and to see their daily lives in detail. I learned a great deal and am even more passionate about my work now!
Hooked: heartbreaking, but hopeful
 
Review Date: July 16, 2005
Reviewer: A reader, Salinas, CA
This book is amazing. I rarely give books 5 stars, but this one is exceptional - fair, honest, compassionate without being treacly, thorough, thoughtful, well-written. Shavelson does a remarkable job profiling his subjects, the reasons for their drug use and how it turned into abuse, and the challenges they face just finding treatment (not to mention completing it). He describes each program fully and carefully before evaluating them, so that the reader can understand the basis for his criticisms and form her own opinion. Despite the sad outcomes of some subjects, Shavelson offers the reader a glimmer of hope by showing us what is likely to work, why addicts are worth saving, and why numerous "second chances" at treatment are necessary and eventually pay off. Read this book!

The Red Hat Ladies

The women in the pink and red hats are “the ones enjoying life to the fullest,” their website says. They are free-spirited mothers, daughters and grandmothers. They are a network of friends who know how to have fun, yet also have manners while gathering in public. They shop, have tea and attend social functions in droves — aware that they stand out and yet feeling dashingly unafraid to share their fresh outlook with the world. Wherever the Red Hat Society goes, in their mismatch party hats and garb, people know that life truly does get better with age.

The Red Hat Society was founded in 1998 for women who were nearing 50 years of age and older. Founder Sue Ellen Cooper of Fullerton, California gave out the first of her signature red hats (a fedora) to a friend for her birthday, along with a poem by Jenny Joseph that read: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat that doesn’t go and doesn’t suit me.” Over the years, several more friends received red hats and purple outfits and they began to hold tea parties. While she never initially intended her womens apparel idea to become a global phenomenon, Cooper was happy to start a society that promoted “fun, friendship, freedom and fulfillment.” As of July 2009, there are over 40,000 registered members and nearly 24,000 chapters that span 26 countries.

One might wonder, “What exactly do these Red Hat ladies do?” Each year, these women pay $20 in annual dues for access to the network and RHS-only discounts. Some participants just remain independent members at the online “Hatquarters,” where they can write to other members in forums, play online games, gain discounts and meet occasionally at local chapter events. “Red Hatters” and “Pink Hatters” are the designations for women who meet regularly (at least once or twice a month) at their local chapter or two. As a member of the chapter, women don party hats and go out in droves to share meals, play games, attend theater performances, travel, attend conventions and engage in many more fun activities. Some members may even go on to become “Queens,” which are the organizers for a local chapter.

One popular place to purchase apparel clothing suitable for the Red Hat Society is www.marylusuniquegiftsonline.com. There are many different styles to choose from — and all at reasonable prices too! For instance, a J-Lo inspired canvas crimson hat with a five-inch brim and purple cloth underneath sells for $23. Red cowboy hats with purple feathers and dazzling sparkles can be purchased for $38. Straw hats can be both classy and beautiful for just under $45. There are a number of hats visors for sale ranging from $6 to $12 and adorned in all sorts of accessorizing beads, sparkles, sequins and feathers. A flashy yet sophisticated red fedora sells for $20, while a youthful newsboy cap sells for $17. As one can see, there are all different hat styles for all different personalities.

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There used to be a time in my life when I would have sworn I had the word “sucker” stamped on my forehead. People would come up with their hair-brained web business ideas that really did look as though they could work. The promise of being at the top of the pyramid encouraged my friends and relatives into joining the work of selling this contraption or service. The more people who joined under me the more money I could make until I became a millionaire. The entire process of starting an Internet business sounds as if it would only take a week. If I started by Monday I could be swimming in the Bahamas by Saturday if I just managed to see enough of my friends and family and strong-arm them into signing on the dotted line and committing to buying a garage full of product. Needless to say I never got my million dollars and my friends and family haven’t spoken to me since Start Online Business

It’s been quite a while since I gave up the whole network marketing and MLM stuff. I decided to play it safe and go the traditional route while ignoring all my friends who were setting up a web business or starting an Internet business of some sort. Getting myself into that sort of thing was way too risky for me. I was clueless about how to start an Internet business anyway. “How do make money from a home based web business” I would ponder to myself. What about my family? How do we eat? For over a decade, I slowly treaded the field of entrepreneurship.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve learned that the future of intellectual property negotiation is online. The next logical step for me to do is to start an online business. Choosing the type of online business opportunities is the only obstacle I have to deal with. Setting up a web business would have to veer from the normal for me. It has to be both enjoyable and special. I stumbled upon a site called Online Game Wealth as I was surfing the net for online business opportunities. I still cannot believe my good fortune. There I was, looking into setting up a web business and I come across a site dedicated to making it fun and profitable? Someone must really like me up there.

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This is Significant because Residual Income is one of the Secrets to Financial Independence!

As long as you have to “labour” for your Money, you are “Not Liberated”, in other words…

You Don’t Own Your Own Life!

So…

What’s Is Residual Income?

To Start with, let’s make sure that you and I are talking the same dialect. To put it in the appropriate perspective, Residual Income is a sort of earnings that… when you have it functioning, requires no more participation from you!

Many people confuse the terms “Residual Income” and “Passive Income”, but they are not one and the same. One is authentic and the other one is an illusion!

This is truly important because…

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We can show you The Best Way to generate Residual Income for Life in a Bad Economy!

So it’s important that you understand the many sorts of Residual Income and how they differ from Passive Income.

The only sort of income that could be considered Genuine “Passive Income” is a “Retirement Pension”!

After that, the waters get rather murky, because you need to understand the…

Myth of Passive Income!

Income that’s Absolutely Passive in fact is a Fairy Story, however…

Once you understand the Passive Income Fairy Story, then you can start on the path to producing real Wealth, and producing Residual Income that is about 90% Passive.

The following are some situations where people inaccurately believe that Passive Income can be created, but they are in reality only Residual Income. For example…

An Author gets a Percentage each time one of his/her Books is sold, and then there’s revenue from savings accounts or bonds, playing the stock market, or renting real estate, and Royalties are paid to musicians, actors and artists each time their work is aired, etc…

In fact, those are not examples of Passive Income, for the reason that they are really all “Residual Income” but not necessarily passive.

Also… Nearly everyone will definitely never become famous Authors, Actors, Movie Stars, Musicians or Artists, but even for people who do accomplish that type of Residual Income…

What is going to happen when a new Craze evolves and People stop watching the movies, shopping for the books or the CDs, etc.?

Naturally the ultimate Passive Income is a pension, but how many thousands of people have lost their pensions in the previous two to three years when the corporations they worked for went bankrupt?

On top of that, who can live on just a Government Pension, and is that really secure these days as a Main source of Passive Income?

On the other hand, you have extra choices for accomplishing some manner of Residual Income if you’re already Prosperous, but for the average person the choices are much more limited.

Even if you have money to invest, it can’t in actuality give you Passive Income for the reason that you have to look after and supervise your venture, so that’s not in actual fact passive is it?

Your other option of course is to put your savings into “someone else’s hands” to handle, however can you really know for sure that this person is not just a new Bernie Madoff?

Also, unless you’re a Skillful Investor, you wouldn’t want to jeopardise your hard earned capital in this Economy!

Luckily…

The Internet has totally changed the game, because it makes a whole new type of Passive Income possible which was never possible beforehand, however…

You have to recognize what to look for, and after that you can start growing some Residual Income, but not in the same way that a good number of people commonly believe.

The Real Secret currently if you can find that Rare Company is…

Internet Network Marketing!

The difficulty is that a good number of people don’t know what to look for in an Internet Network Marketing Business, and…

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In fact, I plan to write an Article & most likely do a short Video in the not too distant Future on:

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It’s all so effortless once you comprehend what to look for(and why), and I’ve uncovered just such a situation, but in order to achieve that almost Passive Income, I had to generate an online infrastructure so that I could generate a worldwide Recession Proof Residual Income, but there was one sticky situation…

I acquired the cutting-edge of high tech tools but I require a small Group of people to work these tools which can do over 90% of the Hard Work, and so…

I’ve just opened the doors and I’m accepting new Joint-Venture Partners (no investment) who want to share (equally) in this Residual Income Goldmine with me!

So you see, residual Income that’s almost Passive is now possible with no Risk!

Unfortunately…

This Passive Income opportunity is not to be had worldwide as yet, but it is available in 12 Countries with 2 more opening October 2009

In summery…

The first Lesson that you have to learn in order to build enduring Passive Income is that there is “No Free Lunch”, because producing Passive Income is going to require some energy, be it in the form of Money (as in investments), or an investment of time like in my Joint-Venture Passive Income Opportunity.

Passive Income is positively a key to Financial Independence but it takes time to develop. You won’t reach Financial Independence in a month or two, but if you continue working on your Residual Income, you will get the results you yearn for.

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Financial Independence!

All while sitting at your computer desk!

Income that you earn from a job on the other hand, is pay which “requires you to show up” to get paid.

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Have a Great Life!

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Beyond the Yellow Brick Road: Our Children and Drugs (Written by the "Father of Drug Intervention")
 
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Written by the "Father of Drug Intervention", this powerful book is the answer to drug prevention, abuse and recovery. A must for everyone concerned with saving a child's life. Every loving parent must read this book. If you have a child on drugs or you wish to prevent future disaster, this powerful classic can help you save your kid's life. I know of no one who comes close to having Bob Meehan's ability to help families with chemical problems. I am elated to see that he has finally put into a book not only how to deal with these problems but how to prevent them.

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Make Money Now by Starting Your Own Internet Business

For the last 15 years I have been quite the business man and have decided everyone needs to have a little more fun in their lives. Lately I have been contemplating the whole online game business scenario. I thought it could be practical as a home based web business and I also thought it might be in order as a family affair. How to Start Web Business

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How to Produce a Residual Income Swiftly

Discover The Best Way to Create Passive Residual Income for Life in a Terrible Economy!

But first…

What is Passive Residual Income & what’s so important about it? Simple!

If you have enough Passive Income coming in that you can live on, then…

You Have Accomplished Financial Independence!

Although there is a difference between Passive and Residual Income, for the purpose of this commentary, I’ll use the terms interchangeably in their more General Context.

Passive Residual Income is a type of revenue that… once it is set-up, requires no further input from you!

Types of Passive Residual Income…
There are many types of Passive Residual Income and the easiest to understand is a “Retirement Income”!

The belief is that producing Passive Residual Income can take lots of forms, for example…

A Writer gets a Royalty every time one of his/her Books is sold, and then there’s earnings from investments in stocks, savings accounts or bonds, or renting real estate, and Royalties are paid to musicians, actors and artists each time their work is aired, etc…

Unfortunately…

Real Passive Residual Income Is a Myth!
Income that’s Fully Passive in actual fact is a Myth, but…

Once you understand the Passive Residual Income Myth, then you’re on your way to generating real Wealth, and developing dependable Residual Income that is about 90% Passive.

That’s the Real Secret!

If you’re already Wealthy you have options for achieving some kind of Passive Residual Income, but for the common person the options are much more narrow.

Even if you have capital to invest, it can’t in actual fact give you Passive Residual Income because you have to look after and adminster your venture, so that’s not really passive is it?

The other alternative of course is to have “someone else” manage your investments, but then how do you know for certain that this individual is not just another Bernie Madoff?

As well, unless you’re an Skilled Investor, why would you want to endanger your hard earned money in this Economy!

Also 99% of people will never become famed Authors, Actors, Movie Stars, Musicians or Artists, but even for individuals who do attain that type of Passive Residual Income, what happens when…

A new Craze takes over and people stop buying the books, the CDs, watching the movies, etc.?

Of course the ultimate Passive Residual Income is a pension, but how many tens of thousands of people have lost their pensions, as companies went into receivership in the previous two to three years?

On top of that, no one can subsist on a Government Pension, and even that is not so secure these days as a source of Passive Residual Income.

Fortunately…

The Internet has come to the rescue because it makes probable a whole new type of Passive Residual Income that wasn’t possible before, and also…

If you recognize what to look for, you can begin growing some Passive Residual Income on a Shoestring, but not in the way that most people think.

The Secret nowadays, if you can find that Rare Company is…

Internet Network Marketing!
The trouble is that most people don’t know what to look for in an Internet Network Marketing Company, and…

They get Taken in by all the Hype and do nothing but waste Capital!

Actually, I plan to write an Article & probably do a short Video in the near Future on:

“What to Look For in an Internet Network Marketing Company”!

It’s all so easy once you comprehend what (and why) to look for, and I’ve discovered a situation that can produce lasting (almost Passive) Residual Income, but…

In order to do that, I had to create an online infrastructure so that I could produce a worldwide Recession Proof Passive Residual Income, but there was one problem…

I wound up with the cutting-edge of high tech tools but I need a small Team of people to manage these tools which can do over 90% of the Grunt Work, and so…

I’ve just opened the doors and I’m accepting new Joint-Venture Partners (no investment) that would like to share (equally) in this Passive Residual Income Goldmine with me!

So you see, residual Income that’s almost Passive is now doable without Risk!

Unfortunately…

This Passive Residual Income opportunity is not open worldwide as yet, but it is available in 12 countries with 2 more opening October 2009

To sum it up…

The first Lesson that you have to learn in order to build permanent Passive Residual Income is that there is “No Free Lunch”, because creating Passive Residual Income is going to require some energy, be it in the shape of Money (as in investments), or an investment of time like in my Joint-Venture Passive Residual Income Opportunity.

Passive Residual Income is positively a key to Financial Independence but it takes time to create. It won’t take you a month or a year to arrive at Financial Independence but if you continue working on your Passive Residual Income, you will get the results you wish for as long as you understand the number one rule for acquiring income that’s passive.

Financial Security within 12 Months?
There are shortcuts however as we disclose on our website and with our Passive Residual Income Automated Tools & Success Team, we think that it is possible for any person who is prepared to learn & put in some part-time effort into his/her Passive Residual Income Home Business, to achieve…

A liveable “almost“ Passive Residual Income within One Year, which of course will allow you to start to…

Have A Life!
All without leaving your computer desk!

Earned income, on the other hand, is pay that “necessitates you to show up” to get paid.

It’s easy to build Passive Residual Income because we can show you how to make Passive Residual Income using the greatest 21st Century Passive Residual Income generators, for the best passive online income available anywhere.

With our free guidance, we’ll show you how you can turn into a Master of Passive Residual Income as you learn “how to make an almost Passive Residual Income” for the rest of your life.

With today’s Tools and the right Mentoring, it is achievable for any person to begin a home based business on a Shoestring, and accomplish almost Passive Residual Income in a very brief cycle of time.

Have a Great Life!

Are you really running a network marketing business online? The surge of network marketers who are looking for the easy solutions being offered online continues to grow every day.

But the truth is, there are no easy solutions and the majority are stuck in a place where they’ve both forgotten what they’re mission is, and stuck on a vicious treadmill where buying products promising the latest solution consumes most of their time.

You see, there is a difference between being a consumer of products and being a network marketer. Which are you? If you are simply buying up every solution and offer that lands in your email inbox and thinking this is taking action then think again.

How is your bottom line? Is it growing? More than likely the answer is no. In actual fact, this is false action where the true focus has been lost in limbo and it’s similar to becoming a product junkie. It’s not conducive to business building.

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This problem has become particularly evident in the internet network marketing arena. Too many people are losing focus and going after the so called quick fix solutions. When you come online for the first time it’s almost like traveling than the famous Vegas strip for the first time. The bright lights and the opportunities are everywhere.

There are so many make money fast promises and latest lead generation tactics screaming at you that it’s at first like being a kid in a candy store…you want it all. But the truth is, it’s just a distraction and most fall for it. The result is, several months down the track their credit cards are looking bruised and battered with nothing to show for the money they’ve spent. Don’t worry, I’ve been there.

The key is focus. We’ve spoken about it many times on this site. Find a learning vehicle and stick to it. What happens when you start buying every solution-laded promise that is being offered is you end up with a hard drive full of stuff you never use. It just sits there because when you’ve bought one, another surfaces the next day and you buy that too. It’s a vicious cycle and you need to get off it.

So after going online looking for solutions to building your network marketing business you end up becoming a consumer – a consumer of products you don’t need. And it’s easy to get caught up in a false impression that you’re taking action. But it’s false action.

The solution?

Find an environment you can focus your energy on such as Renegade Professional. Get back to the basics of what it really takes to build a network marketing business…creating relationships. If your struggling with focus then go back and read the post on a book which helped me get it back when I was on the “Vegas syndrome” treadmill.

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