Recently the police in California stopped a van where a father and his daughter had abducted another daughter with the goal of dumping her at one of the low-budget holding camps marketed as rehab which are located in Mexico due to the low salary levels there and the local authorities lack of interest into what kind of businesses that operate in the northern part of Mexico.
The police took the poor victim into protective custody. Hopefully the girl will receive professional treatment for the illness, she suffer from (addiction from a kind of drug, which is recognized as an illness to be treated by doctors, not some random hired muzzle in Mexico).
But while the police now conduct an investigation into the matter, tons of youth are sent across the borders in the very same way. Restrained with handcuffs and shackles, in some cases gagged just as the victim in the case above.
The only difference is that the transport is handled by so-called approved transport firms. In some cases no background checks are conducted on the employees. In some cases they have been kicked off the police force or military for disciplinary reasons.
So why is an act which is illegal when it is done by parents or relatives suddenly legal just because there is a payment to a firm to do it. Should it not be the act itself, that should be illegal?
It remains a mystery why transport across state lines often in violation with the recommendation from the local school authorities continues to be legal.
Source:
Bound 17-year-old was being taken to rehab in Mexico by father, police say (ABC 7)
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Are kids safe in a wilderness program from Covid-19?
No
For a group of people to achieve some safety from infection from the Corona virus, they need to be isolated for at least 3-4 weeks.
It takes up to 14 days to see symptoms from a person who is infected. That means that a teenager or an employee can go to the wilderness program and stay there while infecting people without the person feeling sick themself.
In a wilderness program, children enter the program at random schedules. The employees are replaced every week, the therapist comes in one time per week. Goods delivered to the wilderness program needs to be handled in a certain way in order to prevent infection from bags and the food itself to be passed to the persons in the wilderness program.
The most important tool to prevent the virus from spreading is to limit all contact to persons who is not in the group. That means that an employee must refrain from close interactions with the wilderness program for 14 days after joining the trek. No manual restraints, no close person to person talk. All participants must stay at least 2 meters from each other.
Washing hands is also important. Then new food are brought in the virus can be on the surface of the packing the food are transported within. Once the food is received the participants need to wash hands. People who have been in wilderness programs know that water is limited. Alcohol is an alternative but the program is that some teenagers then would drink it if they have this kind of addiction, so it cannot be used either.
Once a person shows symptoms of Covid-19 they need to be in a place where they can be brought to a hospital quickly. Nurses and doctors who handle patients infected tells of cases where people need a respirator quicker than it would have been the case if we were talking of normal pneumonia. In the past we have been a number of cases where the time used for transport to a hospital from a wilderness program proved too long and the participant died. In some cases the authorities stated that it was neglect. Back then it was a new thing. Today no firm can claim that they are unaware of this risk and it would be criminal investigation and possible prison if they continue to operate a wilderness program when the world is on standstill due to Covid-19.
We recommend that all wilderness programs shut down if they did not do that already. One death participant is simply one to many.
For a group of people to achieve some safety from infection from the Corona virus, they need to be isolated for at least 3-4 weeks.
It takes up to 14 days to see symptoms from a person who is infected. That means that a teenager or an employee can go to the wilderness program and stay there while infecting people without the person feeling sick themself.
In a wilderness program, children enter the program at random schedules. The employees are replaced every week, the therapist comes in one time per week. Goods delivered to the wilderness program needs to be handled in a certain way in order to prevent infection from bags and the food itself to be passed to the persons in the wilderness program.
The most important tool to prevent the virus from spreading is to limit all contact to persons who is not in the group. That means that an employee must refrain from close interactions with the wilderness program for 14 days after joining the trek. No manual restraints, no close person to person talk. All participants must stay at least 2 meters from each other.
Washing hands is also important. Then new food are brought in the virus can be on the surface of the packing the food are transported within. Once the food is received the participants need to wash hands. People who have been in wilderness programs know that water is limited. Alcohol is an alternative but the program is that some teenagers then would drink it if they have this kind of addiction, so it cannot be used either.
Once a person shows symptoms of Covid-19 they need to be in a place where they can be brought to a hospital quickly. Nurses and doctors who handle patients infected tells of cases where people need a respirator quicker than it would have been the case if we were talking of normal pneumonia. In the past we have been a number of cases where the time used for transport to a hospital from a wilderness program proved too long and the participant died. In some cases the authorities stated that it was neglect. Back then it was a new thing. Today no firm can claim that they are unaware of this risk and it would be criminal investigation and possible prison if they continue to operate a wilderness program when the world is on standstill due to Covid-19.
We recommend that all wilderness programs shut down if they did not do that already. One death participant is simply one to many.
Monday, March 19, 2018
Death penalty for drug trafficers
This entry was made by one of our volunteers on the Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora. We share his worries
Many families suffer due to family members hit by the illness called substance abuse. If there were some kind magic trick to cure it, the world would be a better place.
We have to look at the history to learn where the drug abuse come from. 8 nations - the most powerful nations in the world at that time saw to that millions of people could continue to remain hooked on Opium. We are talking countries like United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Russia, Japan, France, Italy, The Netherlands and the later defunct Austria-Hungary. You can google the Boxer Rebellion and read more.
100 years later when the drug use had spread to the country-men in tMaybe the troubled teen industry can rise again now where Donald Trump will introduce the possibility of death penalty for drug dealers.
Drug dealers could get death penalty under new Trump plan (New York Post)
The Danish Lesson from WWII
In Denmark we know that this approach will fail and prevent getting the big fish among the drug dealers.
When WWII was over, Denmark re-introduced death penalty so those who worked for Nazi Germany could be shot.
All the small simple cases went well and about 50 persons were shot. Once the state got to the more complex cases, the lawyers were better and some of vitnesses had been found guilty and had been shot so in the end the big fish got off with fines and some years in prison. 10 years after the war all war criminals had been released.
This will also happen in the war on drugs. Look at China and the Philippines. Ordinary small dealers are killed, the big masterminds stay their distance and cash in.
What about the deals who lure people for illegal drugs?
In many cases drug use starts up because professionals introduce patients to legal drugs. It can be medication against ADHD given to young people where the doctors have misdiagnosed the patients. It ends up being used as legal doping. In some cases the sideeffects are so big that the patient still believing that there is an illness look for other drugs as replacement for the legal drugs.
The medication industry overmedicate the population. Some things in life will hurt. Being run over. Getting dental work. Losing your parents. Breaking a bone. Pain relief in the start might be OK, but some types of pain, you will actually cope better with if you started to do certain exercises or basically just tried to go for long walks so your brain can be given something simple to think about.
In Europe many people who face certain forms of crisis in their life actually walk The Way of Saint James instead of sitting around back home trying to medicating themselves out of pain or sorrow ending up living a better life.
None go through life unscratched and we see an medication industry trying to get us to think that there is a pill against everything.
The present substance abuse epidemic has a lot to do with legal perscription medication. This is not addressed.
Nothing learned from the past
What did happen in 1980's during the first war on drugs was a boost in alternative residential so-called drug treatment programs run by people who had absolute no knowledge into the complex illness which drug addiction is. Drug addiction is a legal medical illness and when treated it should be done by professionals only.
In the 1980's and 1990's children got hurt by treatment conducted by amaturs. For many there were no addiction to start with. It was suspicions alone which landed them in a treatment program. There were no real tests and in many cases the entire operation was not drug treatment but rather getting money from the state or parents which were the motivation for the entire operation.
We at Spft recognize that people die from drugs, just as they die in traffic or die from consuming legal things like beers, wine and other forms of alcohol and even in some case just too much food in general.
Of course the hospitals should be equipped dealing with cases of substance abuse just as they are with treatment of anything else which can kill people.
But the War on drugs should start in a different place. Focusing on punishment for those who provide the drugs on street level is not the solution. Look where the drugs come from. Should the entire world not focusing on make these countries and these people far away earn their money in some other way? Let us not forget that about a little over 100 years ago all major countries (including the United States) invaded China so they were forced to allow Opium. Opium were produced in India and repeating the mistake of fixing the issue where the drugs are used instead of fixing the issue where the drugs are grown and produced will be a lesson not learned.
Is that how far we are in the year of 2018? Did we not learn anything?hese countries, drug use is suddenly a bad thing.
Source:
The original testimony
Many families suffer due to family members hit by the illness called substance abuse. If there were some kind magic trick to cure it, the world would be a better place.
We have to look at the history to learn where the drug abuse come from. 8 nations - the most powerful nations in the world at that time saw to that millions of people could continue to remain hooked on Opium. We are talking countries like United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Russia, Japan, France, Italy, The Netherlands and the later defunct Austria-Hungary. You can google the Boxer Rebellion and read more.
100 years later when the drug use had spread to the country-men in tMaybe the troubled teen industry can rise again now where Donald Trump will introduce the possibility of death penalty for drug dealers.
Drug dealers could get death penalty under new Trump plan (New York Post)
The Danish Lesson from WWII
In Denmark we know that this approach will fail and prevent getting the big fish among the drug dealers.
When WWII was over, Denmark re-introduced death penalty so those who worked for Nazi Germany could be shot.
All the small simple cases went well and about 50 persons were shot. Once the state got to the more complex cases, the lawyers were better and some of vitnesses had been found guilty and had been shot so in the end the big fish got off with fines and some years in prison. 10 years after the war all war criminals had been released.
This will also happen in the war on drugs. Look at China and the Philippines. Ordinary small dealers are killed, the big masterminds stay their distance and cash in.
What about the deals who lure people for illegal drugs?
In many cases drug use starts up because professionals introduce patients to legal drugs. It can be medication against ADHD given to young people where the doctors have misdiagnosed the patients. It ends up being used as legal doping. In some cases the sideeffects are so big that the patient still believing that there is an illness look for other drugs as replacement for the legal drugs.
The medication industry overmedicate the population. Some things in life will hurt. Being run over. Getting dental work. Losing your parents. Breaking a bone. Pain relief in the start might be OK, but some types of pain, you will actually cope better with if you started to do certain exercises or basically just tried to go for long walks so your brain can be given something simple to think about.
In Europe many people who face certain forms of crisis in their life actually walk The Way of Saint James instead of sitting around back home trying to medicating themselves out of pain or sorrow ending up living a better life.
None go through life unscratched and we see an medication industry trying to get us to think that there is a pill against everything.
The present substance abuse epidemic has a lot to do with legal perscription medication. This is not addressed.
Nothing learned from the past
What did happen in 1980's during the first war on drugs was a boost in alternative residential so-called drug treatment programs run by people who had absolute no knowledge into the complex illness which drug addiction is. Drug addiction is a legal medical illness and when treated it should be done by professionals only.
In the 1980's and 1990's children got hurt by treatment conducted by amaturs. For many there were no addiction to start with. It was suspicions alone which landed them in a treatment program. There were no real tests and in many cases the entire operation was not drug treatment but rather getting money from the state or parents which were the motivation for the entire operation.
We at Spft recognize that people die from drugs, just as they die in traffic or die from consuming legal things like beers, wine and other forms of alcohol and even in some case just too much food in general.
Of course the hospitals should be equipped dealing with cases of substance abuse just as they are with treatment of anything else which can kill people.
But the War on drugs should start in a different place. Focusing on punishment for those who provide the drugs on street level is not the solution. Look where the drugs come from. Should the entire world not focusing on make these countries and these people far away earn their money in some other way? Let us not forget that about a little over 100 years ago all major countries (including the United States) invaded China so they were forced to allow Opium. Opium were produced in India and repeating the mistake of fixing the issue where the drugs are used instead of fixing the issue where the drugs are grown and produced will be a lesson not learned.
Is that how far we are in the year of 2018? Did we not learn anything?hese countries, drug use is suddenly a bad thing.
Source:
The original testimony
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