{"id":2405,"date":"2016-10-28T16:44:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T05:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2016-10-28T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T05:44:29","slug":"addiction-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/addiction-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Addiction &amp; Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONE of the reasons for my trip to the North Coast of NSW was to intervene in a family situation\u00a0 where one of the daughters was caught in a drug addiction and other police issues. It was a grim situation that required calm thinking and what is sometimes called &#8216;tough love&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ice, Crystal meth or Crystal Methamphetamine\u00a0 is an unforgiving drug of addiction that is now widespread. It makes no distinctions between socio-economic groups or family situation and, as I found, it can be a secret addiction peppered with a trail of lies and paid for by theft and deception.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is immune. Detoxification is a difficult process but, fortunately, there are programs for counselling and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>But I am no expert and can only say that this drug is potent and hard to manage &#8211; it manages you. Please be aware of addiction, its psychological roots and pervasive presence in society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE of the reasons for my trip to the North Coast of NSW was to intervene in a family situation\u00a0 where one of the daughters was caught in a drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}