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TEDx TALKS w/ EVY POUMPOURAS: What if everything you thought you needed to succeed was wrong? What if the qualities we’ve been taught to chase—confidence, motivation, and healing—are actually holding us back? In this eye-opening TEDx talk, Evy Poumpouras draws on her life-or-death experiences as a Secret Service agent to share a radical new perspective on strength and resilience.
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STATE & LOCAL UPDATES
How Baltimore Became the U.S. Overdose Capital
BALTIMORE -- People in Baltimore have been dying of overdoses at a rate never before seen in a major American city. In the past six years, nearly 6,000 lives have been lost. The death rate from 2018 to 2022 was nearly double that of any other large city, and higher than nearly all of Appalachia during the prescription pill crisis, the Midwest during the height of rural meth labs or New York during the crack epidemic. A decade ago, 700 fewer people here were being killed by drugs each year. And when fatalities began to rise from the synthetic opioid fentanyl, so potent that even minuscule doses are deadly, Baltimore’s initial response was hailed as a national model. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Wonder why your water bills keep going up? Take a look at outsourcing at DPW
BALTIMORE - The seemingly endless crisis of running Baltimore’s water and wastewater system came into focus again today when the Board of Estimates reauthorized two contracts. Itineris NA will continue to supply technicians – many of them coming from Atlanta, Ga., and staying in city-paid lodging – to handle the high-tech UMAX water billing system. And critical operations at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant will remain outsourced in the hands of certified operators from a Harford County outfit called Professional Startup & Operating Services (Prostart). The cost of these two vendors, filling blue-collar jobs once performed by Department of Public Works employees, has soared to $75 million due to extensions and augmentations. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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The Latest Substance Abuse Statistics
Statistics published by National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics
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Among Americans aged 12 years and older, 37.309 million were current illegal drug users (used within the last 30 days) as of 2020.
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13.5% of Americans 12 and over used drugs in the last month, a 3.8% increase year-over-year (YoY).
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59.277 million or 21.4% of people 12 and over have used illegal drugs or misused prescription drugs within the last year.
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138.543 million or 50.0% of people aged 12 and over have illicitly used drugs in their lifetime.
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Usership among people aged 12 and over is down 0.4% YoY.
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138.522 million Americans 12 and over drink alcohol.
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28.320 million or 20.4% of them have an alcohol use disorder.
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57.277 million people use tobacco or nicotine products (vape).
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25.4% of illegal drug users have a drug disorder.
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24.7% of those with drug disorders have an opioid disorder; this includes prescription pain relievers or “pain killers” and heroin).
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Drug abuse and substance disorders are more likely to affect young males
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22% of males and 17% of females used illegal drugs or misused prescription drugs within the last year.
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5% of people in non-metropolitan, rural counties used illegal drugs compared to 20.2% of people in larger metropolitan counties.
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Drug use is highest among persons between the ages of 18-25 at 39% compared to persons aged 26-29, at 34%.
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70% of users who try an illegal drug before age 13 develop a substance abuse disorder within the next 7 years compared to 27% of those who try an illegal drug after age 17.
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47% of young people use an illegal drug by the time they graduate from high school; other users within the last 30 days include:
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5% of 8th graders.
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20% of 10th graders.
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24% of 12th graders.
SERVICES
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Addiction and recovery does not have to be viewed as a dismal process for women seeking sobriety. Talitha Cumi prides itself in maintaining an effective and full-proof program for women seeking to sustainability off drugs and alcohol. Click below to learn how we transform lives.
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Talitha Cumi is dedicated to providing intervention for every aspect of addiction and this includes effectively addressing mental illness. This is a very critical impediment that impacts most substance abuse victims. It is our firm belief that improving mental health through a series of effective interventions can reverse this rising problem.
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"I was an Indian girl on drugs - who could I tell?"
The co-founder of a group offering help to South Asian women with drug and alcohol issues says she wants to help remove the stigma around addiction. Kim, 51, from Bradford, was addicted to heroin for 16 years before a traumatic assault prompted her to quit. She said at the time of her dependency on drugs she had felt "embarrassed" with no-one to turn to and warned of the dangers of "hidden addiction". Recovery charity BAC-IN said some black and Asian communities saw addiction as a "moral deficiency" and called for investment in culturally sensitive programmes.
Kim, who asked the BBC not to use her surname, said she became unknowingly hooked on heroin when, aged 22, she moved into a hostel with her two young children after leaving an arranged marriage. She said she was regularly given cigarettes laced with the drug by a man she met there and only realised she was addicted when he left. n“I had no idea I was smoking drugs. I had never even had a sip of alcohol before," she said.
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“I didn't know I was addicted for a few years because the habit was fed - if I was feeling rubbish, I didn’t connect it to withdrawals. “Heroin was always provided, always there - until he left.” After the man left, Kim, who by this time had a third child, said at one stage she photocopied her daughter’s school sponsorship form and walked around “the whole of Bradford” to get money for drugs. She said her addiction spiraled until the point she voluntarily put her children, then aged one, eight and nine, into care. “I felt like a failure and they deserved better than I could give them," she said. “I kept in contact with them when I could, but they were away from me for six years. “I had nothing to lose now - no kids, no home, I was sofa-surfing. I felt there was no way out.” CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
