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28,000 Deaths in Mexico’s Drug War Reveals Immense Pressures Behind Drug Trade, Reports Narconon Director

Friday, November 12th, 2010

Since 2007 Mexicos President Calderon has been waging war on drug traffickers. But the price in human lives has been horrendous. In shootouts between police and traffickers in kidnappings followed by murders in mass slayings in homes at drug rehabs or in the country more than 28000 people have died in less than four years. For comparison 58000 Americans died in the Vietnam War but that took sixteen years not four.

Recently the media has reported one massacre after another. Just last weekend seven people were shot outside a home that was hosting a party five people were found dead in a car two police were shot dead two more were shot at the entrance of a home. In all twenty deaths were connected to drug cartel activity.

Many of these deaths take place in northern regions near the U.S.-Mexico border where cartel control is the most vicious. Battling for superiority are the Gulf Juarez Sinaloa and Beltran-Leyva Cartels and La Familia. The Zetas formed from ex-military who then began to provide security for the Gulf Cartel are on their own now trafficking drugs and adding to the own body count.

This carnage reveals the intensity of pressure that exists on these channels bringing illicit drugs into our cities suburbs rural areas and schools. The billions of dollars to be made from distributing Mexican and South American drugs to U.S. citizens has created a feeding frenzy among the cartels. You add law enforcement pressure and interference to this scene and its no wonder the lid has entirely blown off the whole situation. Narconon is an international organization that is dedicated to preventing drugs abuse and addiction and rehabilitation of those who have become addicted.

Do you think these traffickers dont assign quotas to their mid-level distributors? Do you think these distributors dont pass these quotas along to their street dealers? With this much power and money at stake you can bet that the pressure starts at the top and works its way all the way down to the bottom. Unfortunately that bottom is our school children or our hard-working productive citizens.

Some people may think of addicts as people who are not worth saving. But many of these addicts were loving parents successful businesspeople or salespeople or artists and musicians before they got addicted. Its not only the Mexicans who are caught in the crossfire of this drug war. Its all too often our neighbors and loved ones.

Effective drug rehabilitation and drug education is needed to stop the inroads of the cartels into our citizenry. The Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs helps those who have become addicted to drugs and alcohol and the Narconon drug education curriculum has proven effective in reducing drug use statistics among young people who receive it.

While many drug treatment centers either state success rates of 10 to 20 percent or simply say that "relapse is part of recovery" the Narconon drug treatment program enables seven out of ten graduates to live clean and sober lives after they go home.

For more information on Narconon visit www.narconon.org

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Narconon programs helping traumatized street children in Latin America

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Life is rough when sleeping in the sewer is safer than the street

Narconon drug rehabilitation and life skills programs for street children are being delivered in several states in Mexico, Honduras, and other Latin American countries. Street children are usually understood to mean ‘homeless’ –working and sleeping on the streets, out of touch with family. But it also can mean just poor and working the streets, begging, selling whatever, but still sleeping at home.

“Selling whatever they must is the shame of it,” says Clark Carr, president of Narconon International, who has delivered training workshops to drug rehabilitation and social programs across northern and southern Mexico. “One rehab director told me,” he continues angrily, “that he had refused $5000 U.S. from a drug cartel to ‘buy 10 children’ from his center so they could ‘work them on the street.’ You think of poor children selling “chicles” gum. Now you can add selling “information” that they overhear from persons in restaurants or wherever the children beg. Or carrying drugs in their little backpacks.”

Worse, many homeless children have to sell their bodies. It makes us shudder to think what they learn to survive. “I met two charming children,” says Carr, “7 and 9 years old, who had been rescued from sleeping in the sewer…because it was safer than the street, they said. One boy still had marks on his forehead from rat bites.”

UNICEF approximates that more than 40 million children live or work the streets in Latin America, escaping from homes where the parents divorce or separate. Not so much poor families as where the parents are addicts or in jail. Or where there is physical abuse.

90% of street children are estimated by UNICEF to be addicted to inhalants, especially aromatic glues, shoe glue, paint thinner, gasoline. This can produce irreversible brain damage unless one knows how to reduce the young body’s toxic burden. Narconon of Georgia trained an orphanage in Honduras in the Narconon sauna detoxification protocol of vitamins, minerals, exercise, and repeated sweating in low-heat, dry saunas to cleanse the body. Those children who chronically had fought or run away to get glue to which they were addicted, reported the orphanage, after the sauna sessions were healthier and happier, more friendly with renewed interest in learning.

The Narconon First Step Program is now being used by dozens of centers in at least three Mexican states. It uses nutrition, too, but also teaches communication skills and how to collect one’s dispersed, distracted attention to “come more into present time” and other techniques. A significant component is a book called The Way to Happiness, a guide to common sense, ethical life choices. Volunteer teacher Paty Capaceta opened a little school for neighborhood children in Mazatlan. “Following the 21 precepts of The Way to Happiness,” she says, “the children find something good, something shining in their lives. They learn they can flourish and prosper. And they can.”

For further information on the Narconon Program or the Narconon First Step, visit www.narconon.org.

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Narconon International drug education seminar for beleaguered Mexico City parents

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Narconon International president Clark Carr gave a three and a half hour drug education seminar to 100 parents and college age youth in Mexico City on February 10th, offering key data to explain why youth turn to drugs and also how to combat this perennial risk to youthful wellbeing. A recent national Mexican study of alcohol and other drug use indicated that alcohol is the worst problem, that 27,000,000 Mexicans between 12 and 65 drink, a quarter of those drinking heavily. Marijuana follows as the other gateway drug with abuse of pharmaceuticals from the house and internet also growing alarmingly, paralleling U.S. drug use.

Some parents said that there has been an increase in bullying and other youthful violence mirroring the increase in binge drinking by Mexico City youth.

But the explosion of youthful use of the internet is probably what is driving up the sale and use of pharmaceuticals, just as it is in the U.S. Carr told the parents that before they are going to talk to their children about drugs, they have to be willing to be honest about their own use, not just of the medicine cabinet but of alcohol.

There was lots of back and forth on how to recognize symptoms and the toxic effects of drugs, with the greater concentration on how talk to young people about drugs.

“More important than knowing about each separate drug,” Carr said, “is to know that drugs, including alcohol, are basically toxic and that it’s really the quantity of a drug used that creates its different effects.” Alcohol in moderation is a stimulant, and this is its popular, desirable effect. But the same alcohol used in excess begins to sedate, slow the person down both physically and mentally, and finally too much, too fast can put one into an alcohol coma or kill him. The conversation turned quite lively over whether or not “cerveza” (beer) is toxic. “It’s not that one beer is toxic,” said Carr, “but how much beer, how fast, for how long. Ethyl alcohol is toxic, yes. But the liver can detoxify alcohol when consumed in moderation.

The parents asked Narconon International for further training and drug education sessions in the future. For further information on Narconon drug education visit www.narconon.org.

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