Critics Exploiting Family Tragedy, Drugs and Problems

The critics' fodder is often the inspiration a professional calls upon to continue his work helping others, no matter the hardships. Funny, critics are so unable to help anyone by their own good work, they criticize their targets by accusing them of the very things they stand for and are most proud of. Conrad and I are proud to serve any organization that believes man can rise to greater heights and should not be harmed or hampered by mind altering drugs whether given out on the street or prescribed by medical pushers. The psychiatric idea of using mind altering drugs to help a street drug addict overcome addiction is illogical at best and incomprehensibly bad medical care resulting in continued addiction or death at its worst. We help parents and children deal with these issues and sometimes we suffer great loses but often we enjoy the ecstasy of knowing we had a hand in helping families find another way to help themselves and avoid drugs altogether.

Illicit drugs and pharmaceutical drugs are identical in their ability to cause great personal harm to individuals and the people who love them. Finding a child using illicit drugs or alcohol at young ages causes a parent to look inward at the example they might have set with their own substance use. Children watch and emulate parents far more than is realized in most families. Parents' activities can lead to the child's idea that drugs are ok and a solution to their problems. Confronted with tough times and life's problems parents turn to their doctors and mention they are depressed and get a prescription for a mind altering drug. Children observe this and do not see the difference in turning to marijuana or alcohol for their problems in life and even save a doctor visit by getting drugs off the street. They can find psychiatric drugs to get high as readily as they find marijuana and other street drugs.

The loss suffered when a son dies in a car accident after years of unhappiness and drug use is one of life's events that is unbearable to endure and those of us who have lost family members know the unbelievable pain. Unraveling the causes is shadow boxing because you could point to so many sources of such a horrific event but you could also see the simplicity of a person, impaired by mind altering drugs, driving a car and losing control. No one plans to hurt their family by dying in a car accident, but they do so under the influence of drugs and alcohol everyday. No one plans horrific acts of violence against parents and society; things happen because the person was affected by drugs one way or the other.

The Maulfair Medical Center works everyday to offer choices in medical care that never involve mind altering drugs. Dr. Maulfair offers many treatment choices for health problems and chronic disease that in no way involve the use of mind altering drugs. It takes more time, involves more staff hours, and the treatments themselves demand a patient participate with healthy life style changes and exercise and education but the results are as would be expected, worth all the trouble. Real change occurs and people have new outlook and do not want to drug themselves with mind altering substances.

Critics pine away trying to expose faults with anyone who actually offers help or can produce wonderful things in any field. There are the art critics who seldom produce on piece of marketable art themselves. Movie critics who miss every time because they do not understand what people of goodwill really want to see. Professors in universities spew hatred, for incomprehensible reasons, or none at all, directed at people of goodwill trying to change bad conditions. And so it goes with us, working away at worthwhile endeavors with like minded staff and many friends, we are the subjects of attack.

What should we say to attackers we do not know, who have twisted family tragedy to use against the very family who mourns? How could we reach and change an attacker when they accuse us and others of doing the things we love the most--helping others?


Coleen