How To Get Rid Of The Labeling Of Addicts

Drug personalities or addictive personalities are artificial. How does a person end the deception, ingratitude, lying, and the drug seeking behavior? How does a person shed the alcoholic or addicted label for life? An intelligent evaluation of the situation will reveal that the drug personalities and the "alcoholic" or "addict" labels are artificial; they are not natural conditions.

Einstein once said the kind of thinking that produced the problem is diverse from the kind of thinking that's required to solve it. Simply put, alcohol and drug abusers need to gain innovative ways of thinking, new abilities and skills through addiction treatment - and have these now reside in themselves, to be able to stay happy, sober, and clean with their new lives.

Training these people to gain new abilities and develop new talents is the route to independence. It is also the best way to end a person's addiction.

There are a number of approaches to alcohol and drug rehabilitation:

? The typical approach is the traditional counseling or medical method in addition to the 12-Step approach. This believes that once you are an addict, you will always remain an addict. The only way to handle your addiction is through meetings, on-going counseling, medication, and some unspoken miracle because this approach has a success rate of less than 22%. While counseling and medications are necessary, we do not believe addiction to be a life sentence. Probably the labeling of alcohol and drug abusers as "alcoholics" and "addicts" explains why more people do not flock to traditional rehabilitation. Alcohol and drug abusers do not want to acknowledge the "alcoholic" or "addict" label.

? Another more practical approach is where a person improves their abilities and skills to have the ability to living a satisfying life without using alcohol or drugs. Soaring above it is the most sought after approach - this technique is real, it does exist. They need help attaining improvements because this level of ability is situated above their ability.

If you do not want your family member to be dependent on drugs, advisors, or other healthcare professionals throughout their existence, this is the best time to discard those beliefs that say, "They must be dependent on others," simply because that is most likely why many alcohol and drug abusers resist addiction treatment.

The fundamental question a person asks when choosing a strategy to end a drug or alcohol abusing pattern is, "What is possible to alter this behavior?" The decision pursues the question. This may be totally simplistic, but this is not the basic pattern of question & answer that follows nearly all people's reasoning. Family members often search for available programs after which they fit their loved one right into the system, expecting that it will fix them. That is not the way it works.

Counselors and support groups may be crutches. Several self-help groups actually enforce false conditions of addiction, although a lot of the right and bonding actions taken are helpful. What alcohol and drug addicts need are new skills, abilities, and the confidence to get rid of drug and alcohol dependency, fulfill their dreams, and succeed in life. They have to get rid of their addictive personality and artificial labels.

Deon Carlisle is a writer on topics about addiction treatment in Elk Grove and features of addiction treatment in Joliet.

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Chevron response to refinery fire under criticism

Firefighting crews continue to pour water onto a unit after a fire at a Chevron refinery on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 in Richmond, Calif. The fire, which sent plumes of black smoke over the San Francisco Bay area, erupted Monday evening in the massive Chevron refinery about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco. It was out early Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Contra Costa Times, Aric Crabb)

Firefighting crews continue to pour water onto a unit after a fire at a Chevron refinery on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 in Richmond, Calif. The fire, which sent plumes of black smoke over the San Francisco Bay area, erupted Monday evening in the massive Chevron refinery about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco. It was out early Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Contra Costa Times, Aric Crabb)

Firefighting crews continue to pour water onto a unit after a fire at a Chevron refinery on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 in Richmond, Calif. The fire, which sent plumes of black smoke over the San Francisco Bay area, erupted Monday evening in the massive Chevron refinery about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco. It was out early Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Contra Costa Times, Aric Crabb)

Firefighting crews continue to pour water onto a unit after a fire at a Chevron refinery on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 in Richmond, Calif. The fire, which sent plumes of black smoke over the San Francisco Bay area, erupted Monday evening in the massive Chevron refinery about 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco. It was out early Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Contra Costa Times, Aric Crabb)

White smoke rises from the Chevron refinery during a controlled burn on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, the morning after Monday's toxic fire in Richmond, Calif. An investigation into what caused the fire is ongoing. Heather Kulp, Chevron spokesperson, said the fire was caused by a vapor leak. (AP Photo/The Contra Costa Times, Laura A. Oda)

White smoke rises from the Chevron refinery during a controlled burn on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, the morning after Monday's toxic fire in Richmond, Calif. An investigation into what caused the fire is ongoing. Heather Kulp, Chevron spokesperson, said the fire was caused by a vapor leak. (AP Photo/The Contra Costa Times, Laura A. Oda)

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) ? Investigators were looking at how a small, seemingly insignificant leak at one of the country's biggest oil refineries quickly unraveled into an intense fire that sent acrid black smoke into the sky and hundreds of people to hospitals with health complaints.

This latest disruption at Chevron's refinery in this city about 10 miles northwest of San Francisco ? one of the West Coast's big refineries ? was expected to affect gasoline prices in the region.

The Richmond refinery produces about 150,000 barrels of gasoline a day ? or 16 percent of the region's daily gasoline consumption of 963,000 barrels, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at Oil Price Information Service.

With inventories of gasoline in the region already low compared with the rest of the country, pump prices on the West Coast will soon average more than $4 a gallon, Kloza said.

Chevron spokesman Lloyd Avram said he did not know when the refinery could be restarted and declined to comment on the impact the shutdown might have on the gasoline market.

Analyst Patrick DeHaan of the website GasBuddy.com warned that Oregon and Washington would see a price hike soon.

"Spot prices have already increased by as much as 30 cents per gallon in some West Coast markets and that's before the refinery damage has been fully assessed," DeHaan said.

The leak started as a drip at about 4:15 p.m. Monday, officials said. Chevron ? which is required to "immediately" notify the public of any gas leak, fire or oil spill, according to state law ? did not consider it an immediate danger to residents nearby.

"At that point in time, there really wasn't anything we could advise the community to do," said Mark Ayers, the refinery's fire chief. "We surely wouldn't advise anybody to shelter in place."

The company's engineers began stripping away insulation on the leaky pipe to investigate the source, which released a vapor of a flammable substance similar to diesel. About two and a half hours later, a conflagration had officials scrambling to warn residents to stay inside.

Chevron officials notified Contra Costa County so it could activate its emergency warning system, said Randy Sawyer, director of the county's health services agency.

"We are still trying to determine whether Chevron gave timely notification," Sawyer said.

Richmond's mayor, some residents and community groups have criticized the company's response as too slow, marking the latest conflict between Chevron and the area's residents. The refinery has been the target of complaints and lawsuits by residents of the mostly low-income community. The area is home to five major oil refineries.

Emotions ran high during a Tuesday night community meeting in Richmond, where hundreds of people heckled a panel of Chevron and local officials.

"I can assure you I have the utmost respect for this community," Nigel Hearne, the general manager of the refinery, said. Police officers lined the stage as the speakers left.

"We apologize for the fire and smoke caused by yesterday's incident," the company wrote in a statement. "Nothing is more important than safe operations and yesterday we did not meet that expectation."

State workplace safety investigators were also investigating.

"Investigators have notified us that Chevron's emergency response was excellent," Erika Monterroza, a spokeswoman for California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, said. "Everyone was evacuated and Chevron set up an exclusion zone to keep people out of the area."

Still, Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin said the fire was unacceptable and called for the company to improve its early-warning system.

"We live with the day-to-day risk of this type of manufacturing and refining that has an impact on our community with pollutants being released, but with the accident that happened yesterday, that doesn't mean it's acceptable, because it's not," McLaughlin said.

Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, a town near the refinery, said more than 300 people had sought help complaining of eye irritation and breathing problems. Kaiser's Richmond Medical Center said it treated more than 350 people with respiratory concerns.

No patients were admitted to the facility, said Jessie Mangaliman, a spokesman for Kaiser Permanente.

State officials said the region's 27 air-monitoring stations detected increases in pollution, but that they decreased significantly once the fire was extinguished. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District said in a statement that air monitors showed pollution levels well below federal health standards. It also said weather conditions helped disperse the smoke.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials last inspected the refinery and Chevron's legally mandated risk management plan in 2010. They found no violations.

Carol Bluitt, who lives blocks from the refinery, said she was traumatized by the blaze that darkened the sky for miles and smelled like burning rubber.

"You could clearly tell it there was something toxic in the air. My eyes were really, really red and running," Bluitt said.

Bluitt said she went to the hospital Tuesday morning and complained that her chest was tight. They prescribed eye drops and an inhaler, she said.

The blaze in the refinery's No. 4 Crude Unit was contained in about five hours, Chevron said in a statement on its website. Three employees suffered minor injuries, according to the company.

County health officials used automated calls to warn residents of Richmond, San Pablo and the unincorporated community of North Richmond to stay inside and cover cracks around doors with tape or damp towels.

A fire at the refinery in January 2007 injured two workers and spewed low levels of sulfur dioxide and other toxins into the air. County officials said then that it was not enough to harm the health of nearby residents. That fire shut down the refinery for most of that year's first earnings quarter.

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AP writers John Marshall and Garance Burke contributed from San Francisco. AP energy reporters Jonathan Fahey in New York and Sandy Shore in Denver also contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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PFT: Carson Palmer recommended T.O. to Carroll

AP

It might not have ever mattered what Sean McDermott did in Philadelphia.

He was never going to be Jim Johnson.

That?s essentially the reason the Eagles fired him from his defensive coordinator job, and now with the Panthers, McDermott told Paul Domowitch of the Philadelphia Daily News it might have been the best thing for his career.

?[Getting fired] is always a possibility in this business,? McDermott said of Andy Reid?s decision to replace him after the 2010 season. ?He felt like he had to go in a different direction. For me and my career, my hope and my desire is that I?m a better coach for it.

?Hopefully, 10 years from now, being where I?d like to be, accomplishing goals I?d like to accomplish, I hope I look back and say that was a turning point in my career for the better.?

He?s working for a coach now who has witnessed it firsthand, as Ron Rivera was in Chicago when Buddy Ryan left and Vince Tobin took over as defensive coordinator. So Rivera knows how McDermott struggled to replace the legendary Johnson after his death.

?Following somebody who has had a lot of success, the expectations are almost unfair,? Rivera said. ?When I was playing for the Bears, Vince Tobin came in and replaced Buddy after he left [to become the Eagles' head coach]. Vince never got the respect he deserved because it was Buddy this, Buddy that. But when you look at some of the things Vince did, you say, ?Wow, that?s pretty doggone good.?

?So when I look at Sean?s situation ? and Andy and I talked about it ? just the expectation level was so great, Andy thought this would be a great opportunity for Sean to come down here and reinvent who he is.?

McDermott now needs to reinvent the Panthers defense. With the injuries that limited him from a personnel standpoint last year, they finished 28th in total defense and 27th in points allowed.

But with the strides they made on offense, the Panthers only need to get from bad to average to make a big jump this season.

If that happens, no one in Charlotte will be talking about how Johnson would have done it better.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/07/carson-palmer-recommended-t-o-to-pete-carroll/related

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