@SC, thank you for sharing your story. My sobriety date is 7/11/2021, and your article resonated with me on several levels.
What stood out most was the dynamic between young women and the relationships that shape them during adolescence and early adulthood. As a society, we rarely discuss the critical developmental period between puberty and the full maturation of the frontal lobe, the brain's executive functioning center, which continues to develop into the mid-20s. It is a season of extraordinary vulnerability.
Young men and men have an important role in understanding the influence they can have on the girls, young women, and women in their lives. While hormones contribute to differences in how we process and respond to the world, our shared human need is the same: to be loved, to belong, and to feel connected.
I think it's time for a broader conversation about how our cultural norms, institutions, and public policies can better support young people, especially those ages 11 to 26, as they develop into healthy, resilient, and contributing members of society.
We all remember how "smart" we were at 18, 19 years old and how our parents were so "dumb." There's a lot of maturity that develops after high school. And to think that some people want to lower the voting age to 16! Yikes!
" Worth noting @bkheywood how much faster the administrative staff growth has been, far beyond the investment in teachers and the growth in students. (and those Non-Teaching Certified Staff are WEA members)"
Yes, make treatment more accessible and easier to access. The barriers to getting in are massive.
As a person in long term recovery SC just made me happy. I try to help but the system of bed dates, assessments, appointments with agencies that have 9-5 jobs lose to many people. I quit trying to tell people addiction is not a choice. Just try not having food and fighting off hunger. Your body reacts to not having food. Just as it reacts to not having drugs. I was born into a life of drugs. It was normal to see family high. I thought that was how everyone lived. And some people are more susceptible to becoming addicted than others.
SC has great points. The care after getting off drugs is where the real work begins. I quit using a hundred times. Staying quit is where I needed the real help. No one wants to be addicted. The challenge is once you are addicted changing the cycle is difficult. Everyone needs help now and then no matter who you are. Addicts need help more than most.
I overdosed many times as well. I finally started working to change my life when a doctor in an emergency room took me aside and told me I could not keep coming back there when I got in trouble. He helped me get into treatment. Unfortunately, I did not stary clean that day because when I went home there was still dope on a plate on the coffee table. I had to finish it. But that doctor did get me thinking about a better option to the life I had. It took another year and many more failures to finally make some progress. I got into an outpatient treatment center and had a counselor that really took me under her wing. She encouraged me and helped me maneuver the crazy maze of agencies and hoops to jump through. She encouraged me to finish my high school diploma. That was what really made the difference. I discovered I was not some dumb junkie with no brains. I found purpose and meaning. I ended up getting a GED, enrolling in college and getting a masters degree. I turned that degree back to the people on the streets and helped people that were like I was. I am forever grateful to that woman who saw more than a junkie and held my hand as I walked paralyzed in fear to find a new life.
SC know what she speaks about. Just saying no to drugs does not work. Its after the drugs where help needs to be available.
Citizen. An amazing positive result, brought tears to my eyes. You are right about needing help only today they condone making it easier to live the addiction instead of
stopping it. I don’t know how they get their ideas but they need to deal with the addiction instead of stopping a way that stops their pattern not enhancing the pitfalls at hand. Thanks for sharing your journey and hope it saves someone’s life.
Congratulations SC. I am sharing with u my addiction story. I haven’t shared this with many people. I was addicted to cocaine for 24 years. I didn’t lose my wife job or my house but came close. 20 years ago I found the Lord and quit over 20 years ago overnight. Never relapsed once but still don’t drink or go near people who use. It took changing my habits friends(so called) and a hidden lifestyle that wasdevastating to my family. Until one hits the bottom or finds an alternative path no program that the leaders are pushing will save you.
You have to WANT to quit! The path that our CC pushes is allowing the addicts to continue the lifestyle without consequences and delays the inevitable result of being clean if death does not happen sooner. Quitting is the only way to get better not partial treatment or desire. Thank you SC and keep up the sobriety.
I just don’t get why this county is so bent on accommodating addicts. Really, what is in it for them ? How can they see the suffering of drug addiction and just write out a check for more supplies that enable use? That woman (Berry) is a doctor. Apparently in her med school they didn’t cover helping people make a change that could save lives. She went to “Cadavers R Us”!
I can agree with your assessmrnt, MK. I learned a lesson about myself, and life, many years ago; "That which I can conceive-of, believe in, and confidently expect for myself, must necessarily become my experience." Such a mindset has presented a life, travels, and experiences that I would still be dreaming about, had I not considered and applied. We are our most critical opponents, due to the thoughts that were instilled at an early age, which we bought into, and by those who want us to fail in order to find our place among them, in mediocrity, or failure based on their standards.
When the progressive harm reduction mindset enforces that you're worthless, on top of a more than not likely situation of having been raised in situations that you're worthless, then what do we expect?
What are we really reducing with this program? Some sort of guilt?
Money can’t buy your way out of addiction. A good treatment program could.
But as they say “ the addict must want to change, all other attempts by a caring crowd, are futile. Money used to make life easier for addicts (supply paraphernalia) just keeps them another day away from treatment.
Dr Berry is culpable every time an addict ends up in the ER. What a waste of time in medical school.
In the early 2000s I filled in at a boys ranch in Colorado, a last resort for parents whose kids had drugs and drug-related crimes behind them. One of those kids has kept up a friendship with me ever since. When he calls, he's doing well. When he doesn't, I assume he's hit bottom.
Faith has been key. He's a devout Christian, but his tendency toward addiction is still strong. He was first addicted before he was born.
I can't even get into the things he's shared with me. Too hideous and grotesque and sad.
One particular Christian group has helped him enormously (I won't say which). But one thing is clear: stable, creative work, away from others with addiction, helps him more than anything. The last thing he needs is to be surrounded by people still in it. He's made that clear himself just the other day.
He called Friday evening to tell me he's going to church now in a smallish town, but that he has to stay clear of the drug influences there too. A kind fellow who rents houses has given him work and a place to stay. Which is a keen example of this problem is going to be solved. Not by state intervention.
Unless those running the programs and studies are willing to go into addiction and be on the street and enter into drug-related crimes, can they ever truly understand first-hand what these people need? Before we legalized drugs, I was thinking that all those who voted yes, should have first gone for a week on strong weed.
I recently read a long article by a highly respected psychiatrist. When people voted yes to legalizing marijuana, we didn’t realize the impact it would have on young brains. It’s turned out to be a very evil change in the law which was solely for states to extract more revenue from an industry that existed without being taxed. The damage to young brains is immense. It’s not just a casual recreational drug as touted by all the supporters. Greed of the states made it legal, and humans are paying the price. You can’t get much more evil than that.
Thank you, Jeff Tozzer, Jake Seegers, and SC, for bringing our community some real common-sense thoughts with regard to the addiction issue and the poorly thought out short sighted "harm reduction" approach of our local governments~! Although I never had the horrific experience of having to deal with a personal addiction problem as SC has, I have in fact very intentionally infiltrated the very environment that she so well describes. Therefore, I can personally verify that SC's description of the addiction "community" and how it supports, fosters, and encourages everyone who ventures near it to become more & more addicted to all sorts of harmful substances and behaviors, is absolutely true~! This is where the state of Oregon recently screwed up by "decriminalizing" drugs, which immediately resulted in a catastrophic & severe increase in the drug addicted population that they are still reeling from today and will take many years, if not decades, to get under control the way that they are still handling the issue. I have also known numerous drug addicted Individuals who had brief moments where they were open to getting help out of their vicious cycle of self-abuse, and it is absolutely true that those moments are very limited "golden opportunities" where those folks have the personal will and only need the opportunity and appropriate method (help) to have a chance to overcome their addiction. It is VERY wrong to expect that ALL of these addicted folks will, or even can, succeed in overcoming their addiction problems on the first attempt, because many times their efforts slowly provide them with the knowledge, experiences, and ultimate will to finally succeed~! So, as in a great many other positive efforts in our lives, it can often take more than just one effort to succeed at a great many worthwhile things... My entire life's experience has constantly taught me that attempting to succeed at anything worthwhile the very first time and being successful, is extremely rare even for the best of us. So "we" (the good folks of our community) should keep in mind that there is actually tremendous value in learning from our attempts to succeed~! Our community needs to have a well-balanced support program in place and ready to accommodate these folks with addiction issues when THEY are personally ready and willing to change, because it is a very rare Individual that can overcome addictive behavior all on their own without any help when they need it most... My compliments to SC for overcoming these terrible issues that could challenge any of us in our lives when faced with enough problems at the wrong time~!
This podcast is so powerful and timely. It gives such an important view into drug use today and, really, where do we start to turn the wheel on this out of control vehicle that is driving our culture off a cliff. If people haven’t taken the hour to listen, please, please do.
If you are dead set against listening to CCW (no offense, Jeff), go to the 16:30 minute part of the podcast for the interview.
Congratulations SC!!! You are a very strong person! Thank you and I agree with your thoughts ! I know it must have been hard to do alone. Your heart is in the right place ! Hugs
As an alcoholic, 40 years sober, I wonder if the board of health and board of commissioners and city and port and sheriff and hospital and doctors and Mat and other civic leaders are willing to meet with former and current substance users to prioritize and institute real solutions that lead to sobriety? It seems like our civic leaders are deaf and dumb when those of us with lived experience speak out on what works and what is needed. They continue to listen to the classroom scientists promote empathic solutions that have been proven not to provide acceptable results. Statistics used by these scientist may not be giving them the correct answers. Garbage in = garbage out. Lets get together and listen to each other and get it right without influence from those mired in promoting the continuance of the status quo of job creation for those administrating programs that continue reliance on drugs. Instead, lets work those people out of a job rather than creating more. I hope to be able to bring this up at health meeting if able to attend, but hope someone will if I cannot. Just a thought.
Here's another tidbit. Our "homeless" problem's largest contributing factor is.....drumroll....drugs.
When the harm reduction advocates state the biggest reason for their program is that it's less cost to the taxpayers have they included the billions wasted on "homelessness" that their policies cause?
The Democrats took on the war cry of defeating homelessness when Reagan first too office (that's what I remember at 16 years old), and 46 years later, it's rampant and out of control with degreed adults still trying to come up with a solution. So, for 46 years I haven't been impressed with anyone with multiple letters behind their names.
The biggest problem is not having a reason or the training to be different...drugs are symptoms, not causes...and there are innumerable reasons to keep people in misery and addicted...VERY profitable, in many ways, for many beings!😎
Total aside. The new middle school in Port Angeles will feature gender-neutral facilities. The project's Design Advisory Committee mandated "inclusive restrooms." Heard this from a friend of mine. Do we really want 6th grade girls in the same facility as 8th grade boys? Just how is that going to work?
Another loss of moral and common sense in our education system that CANT teach reading or math but can teach the terrible world we live in. The answer is pay the teachers more and build new schools. BTW this school was built at around $75m with outside CC contractors. I wonder how much that helped our economy? Another great move by our WOKE leaders.
Woke is a yoke, not a joke! Holy Smoke! All public 'servants' should undergo regular drug screening. Exemptions for legitimate tx protocols within reason!🤓
It is social engineering, for sure. Soviets did he same thing with their communal apartments (kommunalki), the explicit goal was to use state architecture to break down the private nuclear family and force a collective mindset.
However, we know biology beckons, so you can't "chimera" the human mind, body, and culture. The nuclear family and kinships with male/female archetypes is what prevails. So, the nonsense will reorganize back to what works. But playing games with the minds of children and adults is so exhausting. It takes a local body to say no, "adults are called back to the playpen."
Excellent advice from a former addict. We also need to take the business mindset out of treatment. If we don’t, that will continue to be the main focus for many who claim to care.
The only way the 'business mindset' will ever be taken out of treatment is if we stop financing the problem. The day non-profits and NGOs and "health" branches of the government stop receiving millions of dollars to "solve" the problem will be the day the problem stops being lucrative. Nobody blows up the motor on a money train intentionally.
The mindset that stands up these organizations is the same mindset that rails against for-profit entities, yet what they create is for-profit no matter what term they try to describe it as. NGO's and non-profits all profit.
PUD is not involved in the organized crime our county likes to refer to as " harm reduction". And yes, passing out drug paraphernalia has always been a crime, until the crime syndicate that governs decided to change the law recently. With that in mind (PUD not being involved in "harm reduction"), they are not related to the conversation regarding the untold sums of money being thrown at the "homelessness" "problem". Though I do recognize your sentiment.
This should be sent to the Three Miscreanteer commissioners and Dr. Dingleberry. Watch how they "know better" and will not do anything about it. That's because they want MORE addicts/vagrants/bums so they can justify more tax money coming in to launder for themselves. As long as they are in charge, nothing will change.
Yes, Thank you, SC! She, and others like her should, be lauded for their hard work and success. These are the people that should be the advisors and supervisors for all the substance abuse (harm reduction) programs, instead of hiring those who received certificates or attending some classes.
SC's knowledge and experience is underappreciated and utilized to benefit of others.
SC, thank you for sharing your story. You are a very talented woman and I enjoy reading your comments and your posts. (Sorry that I don't read them regularly.) I especially like the point that you brought up about the timing of fentenyl, the Blake decision, and the defund the police movement. I agree that there is something to notice and question. You and your family are in my prayers.
@SC, thank you for sharing your story. My sobriety date is 7/11/2021, and your article resonated with me on several levels.
What stood out most was the dynamic between young women and the relationships that shape them during adolescence and early adulthood. As a society, we rarely discuss the critical developmental period between puberty and the full maturation of the frontal lobe, the brain's executive functioning center, which continues to develop into the mid-20s. It is a season of extraordinary vulnerability.
Young men and men have an important role in understanding the influence they can have on the girls, young women, and women in their lives. While hormones contribute to differences in how we process and respond to the world, our shared human need is the same: to be loved, to belong, and to feel connected.
I think it's time for a broader conversation about how our cultural norms, institutions, and public policies can better support young people, especially those ages 11 to 26, as they develop into healthy, resilient, and contributing members of society.
We all remember how "smart" we were at 18, 19 years old and how our parents were so "dumb." There's a lot of maturity that develops after high school. And to think that some people want to lower the voting age to 16! Yikes!
Sorry to break it to you Denise but look at page 3 in the voter’s pamphlet.
Follow up based on the podcasts commentary prior to the interview: Preliminary School District Personnel Summary Reports 2025–26 School Year https://ospi.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/2026-02/allpersonnelsummaryreport2025-26.pdf
Lotta money being spent on employee salaries and benefits for below-average test score results ...
Agree
Washington State Education Report Card Data
https://reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/ReportCard/ViewSchoolOrDistrict/103300
Washington State School District Salaries
https://fiscal.wa.gov/K12/K12Salaries
And incompetent management of gov't!😳
" Worth noting @bkheywood how much faster the administrative staff growth has been, far beyond the investment in teachers and the growth in students. (and those Non-Teaching Certified Staff are WEA members)"
https://x.com/bkheywood/status/2075998269566759270?s=20
Yes, make treatment more accessible and easier to access. The barriers to getting in are massive.
As a person in long term recovery SC just made me happy. I try to help but the system of bed dates, assessments, appointments with agencies that have 9-5 jobs lose to many people. I quit trying to tell people addiction is not a choice. Just try not having food and fighting off hunger. Your body reacts to not having food. Just as it reacts to not having drugs. I was born into a life of drugs. It was normal to see family high. I thought that was how everyone lived. And some people are more susceptible to becoming addicted than others.
SC has great points. The care after getting off drugs is where the real work begins. I quit using a hundred times. Staying quit is where I needed the real help. No one wants to be addicted. The challenge is once you are addicted changing the cycle is difficult. Everyone needs help now and then no matter who you are. Addicts need help more than most.
I overdosed many times as well. I finally started working to change my life when a doctor in an emergency room took me aside and told me I could not keep coming back there when I got in trouble. He helped me get into treatment. Unfortunately, I did not stary clean that day because when I went home there was still dope on a plate on the coffee table. I had to finish it. But that doctor did get me thinking about a better option to the life I had. It took another year and many more failures to finally make some progress. I got into an outpatient treatment center and had a counselor that really took me under her wing. She encouraged me and helped me maneuver the crazy maze of agencies and hoops to jump through. She encouraged me to finish my high school diploma. That was what really made the difference. I discovered I was not some dumb junkie with no brains. I found purpose and meaning. I ended up getting a GED, enrolling in college and getting a masters degree. I turned that degree back to the people on the streets and helped people that were like I was. I am forever grateful to that woman who saw more than a junkie and held my hand as I walked paralyzed in fear to find a new life.
SC know what she speaks about. Just saying no to drugs does not work. Its after the drugs where help needs to be available.
BRAVO! SC
Citizen. An amazing positive result, brought tears to my eyes. You are right about needing help only today they condone making it easier to live the addiction instead of
stopping it. I don’t know how they get their ideas but they need to deal with the addiction instead of stopping a way that stops their pattern not enhancing the pitfalls at hand. Thanks for sharing your journey and hope it saves someone’s life.
Congratulations SC. I am sharing with u my addiction story. I haven’t shared this with many people. I was addicted to cocaine for 24 years. I didn’t lose my wife job or my house but came close. 20 years ago I found the Lord and quit over 20 years ago overnight. Never relapsed once but still don’t drink or go near people who use. It took changing my habits friends(so called) and a hidden lifestyle that wasdevastating to my family. Until one hits the bottom or finds an alternative path no program that the leaders are pushing will save you.
You have to WANT to quit! The path that our CC pushes is allowing the addicts to continue the lifestyle without consequences and delays the inevitable result of being clean if death does not happen sooner. Quitting is the only way to get better not partial treatment or desire. Thank you SC and keep up the sobriety.
The cost of changing has to be less than the cost of continuing.
Basic math. Not easy but simple!😊
You are right about that. It is expensive to be an addict.
I just don’t get why this county is so bent on accommodating addicts. Really, what is in it for them ? How can they see the suffering of drug addiction and just write out a check for more supplies that enable use? That woman (Berry) is a doctor. Apparently in her med school they didn’t cover helping people make a change that could save lives. She went to “Cadavers R Us”!
I can agree with your assessmrnt, MK. I learned a lesson about myself, and life, many years ago; "That which I can conceive-of, believe in, and confidently expect for myself, must necessarily become my experience." Such a mindset has presented a life, travels, and experiences that I would still be dreaming about, had I not considered and applied. We are our most critical opponents, due to the thoughts that were instilled at an early age, which we bought into, and by those who want us to fail in order to find our place among them, in mediocrity, or failure based on their standards.
When the progressive harm reduction mindset enforces that you're worthless, on top of a more than not likely situation of having been raised in situations that you're worthless, then what do we expect?
Harm reduction is slavery of the mind.
What are we really reducing with this program? Some sort of guilt?
Money can’t buy your way out of addiction. A good treatment program could.
But as they say “ the addict must want to change, all other attempts by a caring crowd, are futile. Money used to make life easier for addicts (supply paraphernalia) just keeps them another day away from treatment.
Dr Berry is culpable every time an addict ends up in the ER. What a waste of time in medical school.
Gov't has become slavery!🥸
In the early 2000s I filled in at a boys ranch in Colorado, a last resort for parents whose kids had drugs and drug-related crimes behind them. One of those kids has kept up a friendship with me ever since. When he calls, he's doing well. When he doesn't, I assume he's hit bottom.
Faith has been key. He's a devout Christian, but his tendency toward addiction is still strong. He was first addicted before he was born.
I can't even get into the things he's shared with me. Too hideous and grotesque and sad.
One particular Christian group has helped him enormously (I won't say which). But one thing is clear: stable, creative work, away from others with addiction, helps him more than anything. The last thing he needs is to be surrounded by people still in it. He's made that clear himself just the other day.
He called Friday evening to tell me he's going to church now in a smallish town, but that he has to stay clear of the drug influences there too. A kind fellow who rents houses has given him work and a place to stay. Which is a keen example of this problem is going to be solved. Not by state intervention.
Unless those running the programs and studies are willing to go into addiction and be on the street and enter into drug-related crimes, can they ever truly understand first-hand what these people need? Before we legalized drugs, I was thinking that all those who voted yes, should have first gone for a week on strong weed.
I recently read a long article by a highly respected psychiatrist. When people voted yes to legalizing marijuana, we didn’t realize the impact it would have on young brains. It’s turned out to be a very evil change in the law which was solely for states to extract more revenue from an industry that existed without being taxed. The damage to young brains is immense. It’s not just a casual recreational drug as touted by all the supporters. Greed of the states made it legal, and humans are paying the price. You can’t get much more evil than that.
Thank you, Jeff Tozzer, Jake Seegers, and SC, for bringing our community some real common-sense thoughts with regard to the addiction issue and the poorly thought out short sighted "harm reduction" approach of our local governments~! Although I never had the horrific experience of having to deal with a personal addiction problem as SC has, I have in fact very intentionally infiltrated the very environment that she so well describes. Therefore, I can personally verify that SC's description of the addiction "community" and how it supports, fosters, and encourages everyone who ventures near it to become more & more addicted to all sorts of harmful substances and behaviors, is absolutely true~! This is where the state of Oregon recently screwed up by "decriminalizing" drugs, which immediately resulted in a catastrophic & severe increase in the drug addicted population that they are still reeling from today and will take many years, if not decades, to get under control the way that they are still handling the issue. I have also known numerous drug addicted Individuals who had brief moments where they were open to getting help out of their vicious cycle of self-abuse, and it is absolutely true that those moments are very limited "golden opportunities" where those folks have the personal will and only need the opportunity and appropriate method (help) to have a chance to overcome their addiction. It is VERY wrong to expect that ALL of these addicted folks will, or even can, succeed in overcoming their addiction problems on the first attempt, because many times their efforts slowly provide them with the knowledge, experiences, and ultimate will to finally succeed~! So, as in a great many other positive efforts in our lives, it can often take more than just one effort to succeed at a great many worthwhile things... My entire life's experience has constantly taught me that attempting to succeed at anything worthwhile the very first time and being successful, is extremely rare even for the best of us. So "we" (the good folks of our community) should keep in mind that there is actually tremendous value in learning from our attempts to succeed~! Our community needs to have a well-balanced support program in place and ready to accommodate these folks with addiction issues when THEY are personally ready and willing to change, because it is a very rare Individual that can overcome addictive behavior all on their own without any help when they need it most... My compliments to SC for overcoming these terrible issues that could challenge any of us in our lives when faced with enough problems at the wrong time~!
Sincerely, Mike
This podcast is so powerful and timely. It gives such an important view into drug use today and, really, where do we start to turn the wheel on this out of control vehicle that is driving our culture off a cliff. If people haven’t taken the hour to listen, please, please do.
If you are dead set against listening to CCW (no offense, Jeff), go to the 16:30 minute part of the podcast for the interview.
Congratulations SC!!! You are a very strong person! Thank you and I agree with your thoughts ! I know it must have been hard to do alone. Your heart is in the right place ! Hugs
Sent to CCBOC
As an alcoholic, 40 years sober, I wonder if the board of health and board of commissioners and city and port and sheriff and hospital and doctors and Mat and other civic leaders are willing to meet with former and current substance users to prioritize and institute real solutions that lead to sobriety? It seems like our civic leaders are deaf and dumb when those of us with lived experience speak out on what works and what is needed. They continue to listen to the classroom scientists promote empathic solutions that have been proven not to provide acceptable results. Statistics used by these scientist may not be giving them the correct answers. Garbage in = garbage out. Lets get together and listen to each other and get it right without influence from those mired in promoting the continuance of the status quo of job creation for those administrating programs that continue reliance on drugs. Instead, lets work those people out of a job rather than creating more. I hope to be able to bring this up at health meeting if able to attend, but hope someone will if I cannot. Just a thought.
They are addicted to power, and possibly other things, addiction is ubiquitous.
I'm addicted to self-righteousness!😎
Here's another tidbit. Our "homeless" problem's largest contributing factor is.....drumroll....drugs.
When the harm reduction advocates state the biggest reason for their program is that it's less cost to the taxpayers have they included the billions wasted on "homelessness" that their policies cause?
The Democrats took on the war cry of defeating homelessness when Reagan first too office (that's what I remember at 16 years old), and 46 years later, it's rampant and out of control with degreed adults still trying to come up with a solution. So, for 46 years I haven't been impressed with anyone with multiple letters behind their names.
That's another one of those open-ended solutions with no definition so that the money keeps flowing.
The biggest problem is not having a reason or the training to be different...drugs are symptoms, not causes...and there are innumerable reasons to keep people in misery and addicted...VERY profitable, in many ways, for many beings!😎
Total aside. The new middle school in Port Angeles will feature gender-neutral facilities. The project's Design Advisory Committee mandated "inclusive restrooms." Heard this from a friend of mine. Do we really want 6th grade girls in the same facility as 8th grade boys? Just how is that going to work?
Source: PASD Design Advisory Committee Minutes
Link: https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1670258618/portangelesschoolsorg/siktmdtfsrqzbigp3vr2/StevensMS-DACMeeting1.pdf
Another loss of moral and common sense in our education system that CANT teach reading or math but can teach the terrible world we live in. The answer is pay the teachers more and build new schools. BTW this school was built at around $75m with outside CC contractors. I wonder how much that helped our economy? Another great move by our WOKE leaders.
Woke is a yoke, not a joke! Holy Smoke! All public 'servants' should undergo regular drug screening. Exemptions for legitimate tx protocols within reason!🤓
More abuse of the mind.
Same plan for Forks middle school scheme...total brainwashing communism.🤪
It is social engineering, for sure. Soviets did he same thing with their communal apartments (kommunalki), the explicit goal was to use state architecture to break down the private nuclear family and force a collective mindset.
However, we know biology beckons, so you can't "chimera" the human mind, body, and culture. The nuclear family and kinships with male/female archetypes is what prevails. So, the nonsense will reorganize back to what works. But playing games with the minds of children and adults is so exhausting. It takes a local body to say no, "adults are called back to the playpen."
That IS a wide open conversation...define: Support/Develop/Healthy/Resilient...these terms mean different things to different beings!😎
Excellent advice from a former addict. We also need to take the business mindset out of treatment. If we don’t, that will continue to be the main focus for many who claim to care.
The only way the 'business mindset' will ever be taken out of treatment is if we stop financing the problem. The day non-profits and NGOs and "health" branches of the government stop receiving millions of dollars to "solve" the problem will be the day the problem stops being lucrative. Nobody blows up the motor on a money train intentionally.
The mindset that stands up these organizations is the same mindset that rails against for-profit entities, yet what they create is for-profit no matter what term they try to describe it as. NGO's and non-profits all profit.
P.U.D. is non-profit...and we need it...but the CEO is the highest paid in the county...pretty profitable for some!😳
PUD is not involved in the organized crime our county likes to refer to as " harm reduction". And yes, passing out drug paraphernalia has always been a crime, until the crime syndicate that governs decided to change the law recently. With that in mind (PUD not being involved in "harm reduction"), they are not related to the conversation regarding the untold sums of money being thrown at the "homelessness" "problem". Though I do recognize your sentiment.
YEP!😎
Profit from misery...Archonic infrastructure! Ancient!🥸
This should be sent to the Three Miscreanteer commissioners and Dr. Dingleberry. Watch how they "know better" and will not do anything about it. That's because they want MORE addicts/vagrants/bums so they can justify more tax money coming in to launder for themselves. As long as they are in charge, nothing will change.
Vote the wedges and common sense VOTE JAKE and Virginia!!!!!!!!
You can't see the problem, or the correct action, when your very being depends on the problem existing and perpetuating.
You can't 'fix' insanity!
Also, you can't vote your way to success with corrupt systems and pathological liars occupying public positions.😎
Yes, Thank you, SC! She, and others like her should, be lauded for their hard work and success. These are the people that should be the advisors and supervisors for all the substance abuse (harm reduction) programs, instead of hiring those who received certificates or attending some classes.
SC's knowledge and experience is underappreciated and utilized to benefit of others.
SC, thank you for sharing your story. You are a very talented woman and I enjoy reading your comments and your posts. (Sorry that I don't read them regularly.) I especially like the point that you brought up about the timing of fentenyl, the Blake decision, and the defund the police movement. I agree that there is something to notice and question. You and your family are in my prayers.