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For those who have smoked more than 1000x in three or four years: |
70-80% have tried cocaine |
1/3 have tried heroin |
Only 0-1% of heroin users never smoked pot. |
The percentage of use of cocaine is directly related to the |
frequency of use of pot. |
In stage four with increased tolerance the addict uses more |
of the higher grade THC, starts mixing drugs, seeks out more heavy |
using friends. The addict is very seriously disabled with social |
and psychological disabilities, panic attacks, nausea et.c Ego |
deterioration develops (with the denial that the drug causes the |
problem, it follows that the person himself must be causing the |
problem. This brings out guilt and shame which recycles to use of |
more drugs). |
See social and school deterioration, dropping off team, |
dropping hobbies. Finally psychotic-like fog in thinking. |
**This can last as long as two or more years after drug cessation. |
Three predominant symptoms are |
a) progressive chemical use |
b) chemically oriented lifestyle |
c) increasing tolerance |
Parents should be aware...addicted teenager will use avoidance |
techniques, visine in eyes, frequently changes the room (more drug |
oriented pictures etc) dropping grades. |
Often a strong family history of chemical dependency or alcohol |
dependency. Usage of THC not hereditary but the addiction |
development probably is. |
Marijuana is an isolator. Questions asked are "Where did you |
get it" and "How can I get some". NOT a drug that explores |
feelings. Feelings (mad glad sad) tend to be suppressed. |
Treatment must explore feelings and teach its vocabulary. Group |
therapy can help. |
Treatment must teach alternative ways to cope...how to handle |
a headache (user does not handle pain well...has avoided the |
feeling of pain in the past). Must set rules and limits. Must |
address the amotivational syndrome in the treatment program. |
Avoid the assignment to "read a book and write how to talk |
with people" but give the assignment to DO the behavior. Remember |
the immaturity and the age level caused by the drug when making |
Treat the denial. "No big thing" is not true. You have |
school failures, family dysfunctions etc. |
Work with the twenty harmfuls to get to deal in reality. |
encourage that what is real within the group can occur outside of |
the group as well. |
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COLUMBIA - Attorney General Alan Wilson plans to continue an investigation into House Speaker Bobby Harrell despite a judge's order saying he cannot use a grand jury or other investigative agency to do so. |
Ford hearing Wednesday |
The Senate Ethics Committee meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday for a public hearing on former Sen. Robert Ford's ethics case. |
The hearing is in Room 105 of the Gressette Building. |
Even though Ford is no longer a member of the Senate, the committee could issue a fine, or even refer the matter for possible criminal investigation if it deems a deeper investigation is warranted. |
Ford had served in the Senate almost two decades before resigning. |
Wilson said in an interview with The Post and Courier late Monday that he would continue investigating Harrell, R-Charleston, while an appeal is underway. |
Circuit Judge Casey Manning ruled Monday that ethics-related allegations must first be heard by a panel of lawmakers, the House Ethics Committee, before the attorney general can investigate. |
"The investigation is not over, it's going forward," Wilson said in the interview. "Under the law, we're allowed to (investigate) while it's being appealed. We have other avenues we're looking into as well. (The) order doesn't really affect us. . there are other ways of pursuing truth. We're going to pursue them all." |
Harrell has been accused of ethics-related violations, including using his campaign funds for personal purposes. Manning's order said that such charges must be heard by the House Ethics Committee and cannot be investigated by a state grand jury. The case was referred to the grand jury in January after a 10-month state ... |
Harrell said in an interview that he has not been contacted by any other investigative agency. He read from Manning's order, which said that neither the grand jury "nor any other investigative agency shall take any further action" on the ethics-related allegations until the House Ethics Committee either decides on the ... |
"There is no investigation, there is no grand jury," Harrell said. "The judge asked him repeatedly, 'Tell me something that you've got.' He failed to come up with anything. He ought to release the SLED (State Law Enforcement Division) report which would answer all these questions." |
Harrell later told reporters: "This has been about politics from the beginning not about the law. The attorney general's statement ... that he would defy a court order is proof that he's just playing politics. This attorney general had followed that law every time until now. You would expect the chief law enforcement o... |
Wilson said Monday he cannot release the SLED report because the investigation continues. "If you show the people you're investigating everything you're doing while they're doing it . they try to come up with defenses, create defenses for acts before they are locked into their statements," Wilson said. |
Wilson said that he was not alone in deciding to pursue the case against Harrell. "I did not make this decision by myself. I had five prosecutors, including the solicitor general. It was 100 percent unanimous what needed to happen next." |
Gov. Nikki Haley said Tuesday she wasn't going to get involved with the case. |
"I hope it doesn't affect ethics reform, but I didn't weigh in on this before, I'm not going to weigh on it now," Haley said. "We're staying very far away from that and staying very focused on our job." |
Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell supported Manning's decision. |
"I think his decision, quite frankly, is in line with constitutional law," McConnell said. |
Political and legal watchers around the state worry that Manning's ruling would make the General Assembly a protected political class if the attorney general is not allowed to pursue ethics-related criminal investigations into lawmakers. Harrell said ethics-related allegations must first be heard by the House Ethics Co... |
The Post and Courier's Cynthia Roldan contributed to this report. |
29 Hour Music People: A Writing & Recording Collective Pt.3 |
(If you missed the previous installments of the 29 HMP series, here are links to parts one and two.) |
PART III: Sunday |
Matty: We finished all the music for 11 songs on Saturday — while still leaving time for a pizza break and a prosecco-and-cupcake break — slept five hours or so and walked into our own rehearsal / recording-studio at noon Sunday. Rob set up two vocal mics and made it crystal clear that we were not to take more than an... |
Cheri: Chalk that one up to exhaustion, Mr. K. I didn’t remember, either, so I took stock on a song-by-song basis. It looks like we had most of the harmonies figured out ahead of time. Maybe four songs were started from scratch as far as harmony vocals go. Remember we went outside to work them out on a bench in front o... |
M: I do remember that, and I remember having to run back inside 15 minutes later because the previous person’s hour was about to be up! At one point someone said, unhappily, “The clock’s making a lot of decisions.” But of course, that was the whole point of the weekend. It was very much a game, and there was a game clo... |
One limitation imposed by the clock on Sunday: Almost all harmonies for any given song were recorded live on a single track on a single mic, which is not the way it’s normally done. We spent a little bit of time, each time, working out how far away from the mic everyone had to be to make the blend work. |
C: It’s hard to get a blend with six people who aren’t used to singing with each other. Next time maybe we’ll warm up with scales, like they do in choir. But eventually it sounded good. Then we remembered: We forgot to record handclaps! |
M: I assume at some time in the next few weeks we’ll remember that we forgot to record a lot of things! With speed comes carelessness. And also, hopefully, some happy accidents. It’s all part of the game. |
C: Happy accidents… Chris messing with the rototoms and everyone in the room simultaneously saying, “We have to have a rototom breakdown!”… Listening to “The Value of Seafood,” hearing some sort of glitch or guitar cord noise, and deciding not only would we leave it in, but we’d record a track of us saying “oooohhhh” a... |
M: Ohhhh! I had no idea why we decided to applaud. But I loved that we did it. It was a rather tepid applause, but it sounded quite full when we played it back. We may have stumbled accidentally on the trick to recording small audience applause right there. |
C: “Let it be lame.” Another lesson in acceptance. |
M: But the thing is, it didn’t sound lame in the end. It was a lesson in advanced recording techniques. |
And speaking of applause, that’s kind of it, isn’t it? We clocked three hours on Friday, 16 on Saturday and 12 on Sunday, including meal breaks. Eleven songs and three or four meals, depending how you count, in 31 hours. And the songs are totally, irreversibly done. They still need to be mixed — that wasn’t part of the... |
C: Hmmm… I predict an overdub. I think someone will sneak into the studio and add a glockenspiel, or another guitar part, to one of the songs. Unless TEOTWAWKI happens first. |
M: Under our rules, an overdub will in fact cause TEOTWAWKI. So there. |
-Posted by Cheri & Matty |
Cheri Leone and Matty Karas |
have written and played music together for as long as they have known each other, in bands including The Trouble Dolls and Lightning Kites. The Trouble Dolls’ “Giant Moon: The Difficult Neverending Second Album, Vol. 1” will be released in 2013. |
29 Hour Music People: A Writing & Recording Collective Pt.2 |
(If you missed part one of the 29 HMP series, it can be found here.) |
PART II: Saturday |
Matty: We reconvened at 10 a.m. Saturday in a recording studio, with the plan to write music for at least 10 songs, and record them, in a single day. What were our limitations on Saturday? |
Cheri: The only limitations were that we had one hour for each song, and a “No overdubs” rule. No leaving out parts on Saturday for a subsequent recording session. |
Then there were rule-y things, set up by Rob: Grab a set of lyrics and start to write music. Congratulations: you’re now that tune’s “song leader.” The “song leader” should come into the recording session for the song with the basic structure already worked out. This could happen individually or in small break-off grou... |
M: Yup. I would put extra emphasis on the no-overdubs rule. That’s a huge one. Whatever you come up with on Saturday, that’s it. You can’t re-think the bass line later on. You can’t decide to add a synth tomorrow. You can’t even add it two hours later. You’ve got one hour. Go! |
So with that in mind, how exactly do you write and record an album’s worth of songs in a single day? |
C: I can tell you what I saw, and what I did. I think five of us picked up some lyrics and went off to our individual corners to write music. I spent the first hour in my corner cleaning up the red wine that spilled in my gear bag. Then I sat down and started to block out chords with a MIDI controller and sequencing pr... |
M: Sorry! I think the red wine spill in your gear bag had something to do with the jury-rigged napkin cork I made for you Friday night. I should have used a higher thread count napkin. |
I picked up a lyric that was entirely someone else’s work and headed to the stairway outside the studio door with my guitar and iPhone, which I use as a portable tape recorder for song ideas. I thought it would be more fun, and actually easier, to work with somebody else’s words and inherent rhythms instead of my own. ... |
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