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Be Drug Free

Brad Z Melnychuk — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:58:43 +0000

Be Drug Free. Don’t believe the propaganda – Don’t believe the profiteers’ dogma. Drugs are not for your well being, Drugs are known to cause your losing. Look. See –the lives its ruined. Ask a user if he’d wished he hadn’t. Ask an ex-addict why he stopped. Ask a addict if he wished he were [...]

Letter From a 1970s Narconon Staff Member

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 03:12:09 +0000

Hi Brad,I do have a few pieces that with a little search I should be able to locate. Not everything has been saved. The poem which I mentioned called “Addict” was written in mid 1970s based upon real experience of student Jim M leaving course. Later that afternoon I found him at Norm’s Grill in [...]

Alone on the Street

Brad Z Melnychuk — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:04:13 +0000

(TO THE HOMELESS AND “STREET PEOPLE”; WITH UNDERSTANDING) I saw him there sitting, just he and his bottle. In a stairwell he was, for again another stay. No one knows better the sidewalks than he. Or those feelings… of loss and the dulling sensation daily from his drink, than he, this castaway. The streets feel [...]

Teenage Drinker

Brad Z Melnychuk — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:27:16 +0000

It was his 18th birthday; drinking age for his province. “Finally, I can get drunk legally!” he thought. He celebrated with his friends and drank more beer and rum than he ever had. He wanted to drive home but couldn’t walk. He argued with his friends about who should drive. They weren’t in better shape [...]

Narconon Graduates, Ontario, Canada

Brad Z Melnychuk — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:01:42 +0000

There are probably over 300 graduates of the Narconon program in Ontario. There also are graduates in Alberta, in Quebec, in British Columbia and Manitoba. Their ages range from 19 to 60. These are persons who had at one time or another needed addiction treatment. Some were cocaine users, some heroin, crack, crystal meth, oxycontin [...]

You Haven’t Lived until You’ve Worked in Drug Rehab

Brad Z Melnychuk — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:22:44 +0000

A friend once told me, “Brad, you haven’t lived until you’ve worked in Drug Rehab.” I didn’t know what he meant until I did stay and work at a Drug Rehabilitation centre for weeks at a time, several times. There is the story of the client there who smiled and shook my hand and told [...]

Family member is an addict? Alcohol? Cocaine? Pain killers? Prescription drug?

Brad Z Melnychuk — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:40:06 +0000

Do you know anyone who seems addicted to Alcohol? Cocaine? Pain killers? Or they might be using another prescribed drug which is supposed to relieve the withdrawal symptoms of some different drug but then stay on that prescription one instead. These are common addicts and often live in your own household, or in your family [...]

He Beats his Wife, But She Loves Him

Brad Z Melnychuk — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:06:10 +0000

John Crown is a wonderful man, or was when he first married. Now he does cocaine, crack, drinks too much and abuses his wife; verbally and physically. Anna however never forgot the man she originally married; how kind he was to her, in the past, and so much fun too, back then. She loved her [...]

An Alcoholic Husband, and His Wife

Brad Z Melnychuk — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:40:58 +0000

Claude is an alcoholic; a drinker. His wife, Marie, attends Al-Anon meetings; to be with families of alcoholics because her husband drinks. Claude has often told Marie he has quit drinking. But he keeps a bottle hidden in the tool shed. She smells the liquor on his breath anyway. He goes out after work with [...]

Ontario, Canada Addiction Treatment, Paid or Not

Brad Z Melnychuk — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 22:45:36 +0000

If you look through search engines for Addiction Treatment in Ontario, you could find literally 100s of drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs. Many of them are fee-for-service I.E. not paid by Ontario Substance Abuse Bureau (OSAB) or Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), or another government or non-government funding source. You will also find drug rehab [...]

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