CLEAN WATER FOR ALL GOD'S CHILDREN

The following are notes about caring about yourself, healing and recovery, caring about others, and civility. I had a chance to see a visit from PR PSN and use the warm line in Long Beach, CA, and to use the warm line and do Spanish bible study from PR PSN in Culver City Santa Monica area, CA, and to receive two whopping hours of helpfulness and compassion and understanding on Mondays in Norwalk, CA, from PR PSN and since I am no longer on Facebook posting relentlessly every day, and since I share all almost all of the things I love on this here blog, where it says I've done that since 2010, then. Here. The awesomeness of a Project Return, from notes I've taken when they've cheered me up, and cheered me on.

Project Return
Peer Support Network

As Peers, people with
similar shared lived
experience, we practice
the following set of
operational values in all
of our interactions.

Hope.
We hold the belief
that things can get
better. We never give
up and we educate
people that no matter
how bad things seem,
if you take one step
at a time, things will
change for the better.

Empowerment.
We enhance personal
growth and inner strength
while motivating, inspiring
and guiding ourselves
and peers into action.
We encourage others
to reach their full potential
by allowing them to find
their internal stregths.

Recovery.
We believe that individuals
who have suffered from
mental health challenges
can go on to lead successful
fulfilling lives.

We see individuals grow
when they seek out
information and utilize
the resources offered.
Individuals regain their
sense of self by taking
control of the things
which previously seemed
beyond their control.

Mutuality
Regardless of our job
title, we are all equal
and thus treat each other
with dignity and respect.
We respect the validity
of every individual's
experiences, thoughts,
opinions, and feelings,
even if they are different
than our own.

Integrity.
We practice honesty
at all times- personally
and professionally. We
operate using moral
judgement, character
and leadership values
and do things in a
fashion of respect
and professionalism.

The reading of the following
ground rules will help
create safety within
this shared space:

What is said here stays
here
Avoid crosstalk
Stay openminded
Create a safe environment
Use respectful language
Turn off cellphones/
put on vibrate
Respect cultural beliefs
Participation is a choice
Being mindful of all
members
Acknowledge new members

Opioids are opiates, medications made from the poppy, such as the common fentanyl patch, the antiquated seeming morphine that is the most heavily used opioids commonly facilitated by a morphine drip, and, including drugs like cocaine and heroin, are opioids which are opiates.

The two are interchangeable, or should be, in relation to America's Drug War and America's Drug Crisis.

"Opiate" is used to describe poetically what is considered an ameliorate through chemical means, for example alcohol.

Opioids are definitely described most often in conjunction with readily available medications nowadays, often in the form of pills.

There is no evidence to support that marijuana recreational use stems from the "gateway drug" of cigarettes.

There is no evidence to support that heroin users use opioids as the "gateway drug"
to "switch" from heroin to opioids.

Fentanyl patches are a common use and, before a Congressional report using fentanyl as a horrible, horrible supposedly newly-in in as a latest trend fad drug, is actually a generic name commonly used still by persons who are dealing with pain.

I am a person with twelve years of lupus where commonly a positive titer kills in two days after diagnosis. I am aware I am a walking miracle.

Somebody must have really not liked the company Jannsen Pharmaceuticals such that their Duragesic (Fentanyl Transdermic Patch), which looks like a clear small bandage size piece of plastic that is put commonly over the chest near the shoulder which typically lasts about twelve hours to keep people in pain from dying from pain, is suddenly the devil, "Fentanyl."

An opioid is a narcotic. Valium is an opioid. Oxycontin is an opioid. Another narcotic is cigarettes.

Marijuana happens to be the cure for cancer, among other things. Since no one Big Pharma can own all marijuana all over the world at all times, medical cannabis in any form is only allowed for 28 states and the citystate of Washington, D.C.

I have read that more Americans are more in pain now more than ever, from a medical journal.

But you should not be taking opioids which are prescribed unless a doctor prescribes them for you.

There was, revealed by The Los Angeles Times in 2015, a drug ring of siphoning opioid prescribable medications from all over the United States to primarily the Northwestern states of Oregon and Washington, including from Southern California.

Maybe doctors should hesitate to prescribe heavy opioids for all patients who ask for it, who may or may not be addicts.

Maybe all parents should know what their teenagers are imbibing always.

Maybe those diagnosed mentally ill should not be a scapegoat for America's failure to provide successful security for homes, businesses, and schools.

Maybe it's time for you to look up the resources peer networks such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon (for families of drinkers), and Narcotics Anonymous to see what they can do for you.

Belief in a higher power can result in abstinence from drugs.

So can literacy.