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    Gateway To Death
    Gateway To Death
    Gateway To Death
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    Gateway To Death

    By Laurie Pailes-Lindeman

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    The world we live in is riddled with drugs. Take this journey with one mother who found out by text message that her daughter was using heroin. Go through the process that most parents go through while their child fights addiction. Behavioral cues that parents can be aware of and help them stop before it starts. This book will give you insight into the drugs that are reaching everyone today. Throughout you will find tips and tricks to monitor and the last section is about a my journey. A lot don’t agree with my thoughts and ideas I am not a “Oh my poor Baby” type of mom as someone who has worked in the medical field for over 25 years some would call it a desensitization I call it tough love. At the end of this book you may love me or you may hate me however if at the end one parent can intervene and help their child then it’s all worth it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwin Caduceus
    Release dateJun 1, 2016
    ISBN9781310712166
    Gateway To Death
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    Laurie Pailes-Lindeman

    I am a married mother of five. If you count my husband I always say that counts for two more. :) I work full time as a nurse and have been in the medical field for over twenty years. I have worked on the an ambulance as well and my husband is a firefighter/ Paramedic. So our dinner conversations have always been entertaining. I love to write and have been doing it my whole life. I live in Southern NH but grew up between Massachusetts and Florida. I also lived in the Bahamas for a little while and loved living on a boat. So traveling is second nature and I get antsy if I can’t travel. My three dogs keeps my going and love to play so I spoil them. I love to hear from my fans and welcome their emails and messages. I am thankful every day for them and we are a team.

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      Gateway To Death - Laurie Pailes-Lindeman

      Gateway to Death

      BY

      LAURIE PAILES-LINDEMAN

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2016 LAURIE PAILES-LINDEMAN

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER 1: HISTORY OF THE DRUGS THAT ARE DESTROYING OUR KIDS

      CHAPTER 2: GATEWAY DRUGS: THE TRUTH ABOUT THEM

      CHAPTER 3: STATISTICS ARE RISING AND TREATMENTS NOT WORKING

      CHAPTER 4: MEDICAL HISTORY OF EVERY ADDICT

      CHAPTER 5: NO ONE IS IMMUNE

      CHAPTER 6: RECOVERY FOR ALL

      CHAPTER 7: A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP

      CHAPTER 8: POSITIVE REINFORCEMENTS AND HEALTHY LIFE

      CHAPTER 9: THE HARDEST CHOICES YOU EVER HAVE TO MAKE

      CHAPTER 10: CONCLUSION

      LEGAL DISCLAIMER

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      Disclosure: The content provided in this e-book is for educational and informational purposes only, and is not medical advice, mental health advice, or therapy. If you are having a medical or mental health problem, please seek appropriate help from an appropriate professional.

      The author and the publisher shall not be responsible for the reader or any third party for any action or inaction by an individual who attempts to apply the methods set out therein.

      Chapter 1

      HISTORY OF THE DRUGS THAT ARE DESTROYING OUR KIDS

      Heroin, which is an extremely mainstream drug of choice in the American drug culture today, is not another drug that just appeared in the late 1960's, nor are its negative impacts special to present day times. Heroin is an opium derivative and, as with any of the opium subsidiaries, there is a serious physical/mental reliance that is created when Heroin is abused. Today it is so cheap the kids can get it easier than most other drugs out there.

      The Birth of the American Heroin Addict.

      In the mid to late 1800'ѕ, opium was a genuinely mainstream drug. Opium nooks were scattered all through what we know today as the Wild West. The Opium convergence amid this period was expected in extension as part of the drugs being brought into our nation using Chinese migrants who came here to chip away at the railways. Exact American history lets us know that well-known names of the period like Wild Bill Hickok and Kit Carson really frequented Opium Caves/Nooks more regularly thank Cantinas.

      The stereotyped picture we have of the cowhand's belly up to the bar drinking whiskey straight after a long hard ride on the dusty trails is only part of the story of the old west. Often, the cowhand was not belly up to a bar at all. He was in a prone position in a dim candle-lit room smoking Opium in the company of an oriental prostitute. It was not uncommon for some of these cowhands to spend several days and nights at a time in these nooks in a constant dreamlike state, eventually becoming physically addicted to the drug. Nonetheless, it was true that alcoholism was a bigger problem. Alcoholism was one of the major sources of violence and death during this period. Eventually, however, Opium was promoted as a cure for alcoholism by the late 1800’ѕ.

      It was from Opium that Morphine, a derivative, was developed as a pain killer in or around 1810. It was considered a wonder drug because it eliminated severe pain associated with medical operations or traumatic injuries. It left the user in a completely numb euphoric dream-state. Because of the intense euphoric side effects, the drug in 1811 was named after the Greek god of dreams, Morpheus, by Dr. F.W.A. Serturner, a German pharmacist. By the mid 1850’ѕ, morphine was available in the United States and became more and more popular with the medical profession. The benefits of using the drug Morphine to treat severe pain were considered nothing short of a miracle to doctors of that time. Unfortunately, the addictive properties of the drug, on the flip side, went virtually unnoticed until after the Civil War.

      During the Civil War, the numbers of people exposed to morphine in the course of being treated for their war-related injuries skyrocketed. Tens of thousands of Northern and Confederate soldiers became morphine addicts at no fault of their own. In just over 10 years time of its arrival in this country, the United States was plagued with a major morphine epidemic. Even though, no actual statistics were kept on addiction at this time, the problem had grown to large enough proportions to raise serious concerns from the medical profession. Doctors became perplexed and were completely in the dark as to how they could treat this new epidemic. (Is any of this starting to look like history repeating itself?) BY 1874, the answer to this increasing problem was thought to be found in the invention of a new drug in Germany. This new wonder drug was called Heroin, after its German trademarked name. Heroin was imported into the United States shortly after it was invented. The sales pitch that created an instant market to American doctors and their morphine-addicted patients was that Heroin was a safe, non-addictive substitute for morphine. Anyone else seeing a pattern here? Seems to be that even today the fact that we went from a society in the mid to late 90’s where it was inhumane for people to suffer from any kind of pain. The quick solution was pain medications given out like candy. Here we are; many years later, some of those people have been on these medications for years and years. The first line of defense is to find other pain management treatments first and work from there.

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