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Editors Note: 77?e follow
ing was taken directly from
Crystal Meth Anonymous ’
website: www.crystalmeth.
org. All references to “God"
are not necessarily theis
tic, but instead refer to any
higher power, including the
power of the CMA group:
We admitted that we were
powerless over crystal meth
and our lives had become
unmanageable.
II
Came to believe that a
power greater than ourselves
could restore us to sanity.
III
Made a decision to turn
our will and our lives over
to the care of a God of our
understanding.
IV
Made a searching and
fearless moral inventory of
ourselves.
V
Admitted to God, to our
selves and to another human
being the exact nature of our
wrongs.
VI
Were entirely ready to
have God remove all these
defects of character.
VII
Humbly asked God to
remove our shortcomings.
IIX
Made a list of all persons
we had harmed and became
willing to make amends to
them all. •
IX
Made direct amends to
such people wherever pos
sible, except when to do soy
would injure them or others.*
Continued to take personal
inventory and when we were
wrong promptly admitted it.
XI
Sought through prayer and
meditation to improve our
conscious contact with a God
of our understanding, pray
ing only for the knowledge
of God’s will for us and the
power to cany that out.
XII
Having had a spiritual
awakening as a result of these
steps, we tried to carry this
message to crystal meth
addicts and to practice these
principles in all of our affairs.
February 9, 2005
METH: no easy solution
Oregon's problem hinges on science of addictk
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the problems it is, is the particularly hard
withdrawal process, which includes a
condition called “anhedonia,” an irrevers
ible depletion of neurotransmitters in the
brain. This leads to the complete inability
for the addict to feel pleasure of any sort
for long after the addiction ends, some
times as much as two years, although the
brain never fully returns to normal.
“That’s ... that’s really hard, if you’re
giving up something that makes you not
feel pleasure for a year, anybody would
ask themselves, is it worth it if you’re
addicted, and the answer is, usually not,”
Pantages said.
While entering a 12-step program such
as Crystal Meth Anonymous (CMA) (see
sidebar) is of use to many addicts, the
problem still remains as much an issue
for the community as the individual,
and the severity
of the addiction
Methamphetamine
and
problems
it causes lead
many to .question
the direction of
the U.S. war on
drugs.
Ben Maras Clackan
“In general, the
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Clackamas
drug
counselor
and
U.S. style of war
instructor Tim Paritages has seen firstha
on drugs is, I think,
the effects of meth and the war on meth
fairly misguided.
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They’re
putting
most of their ener
increased number of meth lab busts In
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Oregon between the years of 1996 and!
get into legal sanc
tions,” Pantages
it’s usually a chemically worse n
says. “I think that
it’s harder on the user, ultimately,
the other side of
drives up the cost,” he said. “That
“My sense is that you can never really necessarily a bad thing, honestly
that would be basically start dealing with the
treatment of meth addicts. By treating them,
stop the drug stuff by making it illegal or least keeps the casual user from j
you theoretically decrease the problem.”
hard to get, they’ll find a way around it;
involved.”
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county elections division by
Thursday, March 17, to run
for the position in the May 17
special election.
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