Posted Monday - Jan. 11, 2010 at 9:43 pm Filed Under Projects, Reflections

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My most loyal readers have surely read through all my previous post, regarding drug rehabilitation. Well, I feel like writing more about that subject today, since I’m actively helping my father with spreading this campaign to promote drug treatment and rehabilitation for those people who, for a number of reasons, have fallen into a drug and/or alcohol addiction.

It’s important that we all understand that these people who are suffering from addiction are not necessarity criminals. Often time they are simply persons who have lost their faith in life, their sense of belonging and of living, consequentely to a job or dear person loss, discrimination, sense of inadequacy or disadaptation issues. What these people need is a gradual, specific drug rehab that would help them come out of the addiction, finding new reasons to live a normal life, without the help of substances that alter the perception of the world, creating the illusion of a happy life that was meant to fill the gap left in real life. Because THAT is why people go on drugs and/or alcohol dependancy: they try to find the happiness they need to go on with life in ‘masks’ given by these substances.

That is why addiction treatment requires gradual counseling, whose goal is to rehabilitate the addicted person to re-gain self-consciousness, self-confidence, control over the addiction, and ability to communicate with others. So you see, counseling is a delicate matter, and pushing too much could cause more harm than good.

My father is collaborating with the rehab center in Genzano to help these persons re-aquire self-esteem and a love for life that they’ve lost in their addiction, and I’m volunteering as well, doing what I can and helping spread the word about this. If you want to help too, just refer to this blog entry. This is a first step to fight discrimination against so-called ‘criminals’ who aren’t criminals at all: just poor people who are in desperate need of help and understanding.

• Mandi Pope

Posted Wednesday - Jan. 6, 2010 at 10:14 am Filed Under Projects, Reflections

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Happy New Year, my dear buddies! How did you spend the Year Eve? Hopefully it was as exciting as mine (yep! we had a fabulous celebration in Robocity, with songs, dances, and fireworks).

However, the celebration is not what I’m going to talk about in this entry. This is about something more serious, on which I’m currently working together with my father at his lab researches. It’s about alchool and drug addiction.

The reason why I’m prioritizing this project as an entry subject is the following: too many of my and my father’s friends, especially outside our city, are suffering the consequences that alchool and drug addiction brought to their lives. Most of them are under drug treatment at a rehab center now, while others are still wandering around, on and off on their doses. That is what pushed my father and I to work together on a sensibilization project in collaboration with a rehab center in Genzano, the city that hosts Robocity. Our aim is to spread the word about the damanges that alchool abuse and drug addiction can cause to people’s brains and metabolism, as well as more serious consequences that can lead to death: liver cancer, allucinations, dependance, and fetal malformations if used during pregnancy. And there’s a lot more to that.

Often times, people who make use of these substances are living through a though time, such like disoccupation, job loss, a dear person’s death, some kind of serious depression, desperation. So, the first thing we’re going to do together with the drug rehab center is to – first – offer consulence and psychological help, and – second – find a proper addiction treatment for each specific case.

Addiction is a serious issue, guys. Be careful, and if you have any friends or relatives suffering from abstinence or other symptoms, refer them to a local rehab center with psychological consulence. The first step is always to understand what’s going on before action is taken.

Posted Friday - Dec. 25, 2009 at 8:06 pm Filed Under Reflections

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Yet another entry idea from SP’s blog! ;D And Merry Christmas dear buddies!!! Wish you a wonderful holiday season! ;3

NEWS SOURCES
Usually I watch big news on TV with my parents, or I read Yahoo news before logging on my email account. But I do a selection, because there are things that disturb me too much (like photos of cruent deaths, etc.), and I don’t want to be bothered. >.<

SURROGATES
Never – and I mean never! – I would like to be someone else’s surrogate. Especially when it comes to love and friendship feelings. We are all unique people, and we should be loved and cared for for what we really are, not for what we represent. Even twins are different. That is the truth. As for the ’surrogate mother’ issue, I don’t think that’s a right thing, both for the birth mother and the baby. Because through pregnancy, the first emotional attachments are born too. It’s a very delicate matter..

CHRISTMAS TIME!
Yay for Christmas time! It’s a wonderful period of the year that I love spending together with my family, close friends, and my girlfriend too. Exchanging gifts is part of the beauty and the fun, and then there’s the religious part for those who believe too. I’ve been at that Mass once, and it was very warm and heartfelt. So sweet indeed. Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate it!!



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