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AUTHOR BOOKS

Something to Ponder 

Can an addict ever be free? Can a person with mental health disorders live a normal life? Or could the answer possibly be in harm reduction? Memoirs Of An Addict: Fact or Fiction.

Has there ever been a time in your life when you forgot who you were? Or where  you were? Or who you belong to? Mary/Pumpkin Recovery Girl.

Mommy why are you crying? Has the challenges of life beat you down? Do you cry because society feels as though I am a culture nuisance? The Neuroplasticity, Implicit Bias Theory Explained: in English & Spanish Editions 

What will be your legacy? Do you believe in hope? The H.O.P.E. INFLUENCER’S Diary.

There are reasons why a person chooses to escape reality

Author M/R Johnson books begin the uncomfortable conversations regarding behavioral health disorders from  lived and professional experiences.  Her books  address the social, emotional, mental, physical and spiritual affects and effects regarding
what are Co-Occurring Disorders?

Each book provides education, hope and solutions that move beyond in-patient and out-patient treatment care, to sustainability living a normal life beyond addictions and mental health disorders for children and adults.

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Will Rhode Island Be the First State to Legalize Safe Consumption Sites?

“People who use controlled substances are members of our community,” wrote Bella Robinson, a sex worker activist and executive director of the local sex worker rights group, COYOTE RI. “We don’t want to see them to be arrested, and we don’t want them to die from an overdose”

The prospect of safe consumption sites (SCS) for mitigating the United States’ historic overdose death toll has long been delayed by the federal obstruction of a Philadelphia-based organization’s bid to open the first sanctioned site. Now, hope may be found a few states over: Rhode Island, where residents are witnessing an exacerbated fatal overdose crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A bill to authorize the creation of SCS, or what the lawmakers are calling “Harm Reduction Centers,” has returned to the state’s General Assembly after first being introduced in 2019. This time, “there’s really been strong support,” Haley McKee, co-chair of the Substance Use Policy, Education, & Recovery PAC and a lobbyist in support of the newly reintroduced H 5245 and S 0016, told Filter. “I’ve seen a lot more involvement of people with lived or professional expertise.”

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Synthetic K2 cannabinoids, and opioid overdose 2020


For many years the K2 synthetic drug has caused dangerous health conditions in the Washington, Maryland and Virginia region. According to USA 9 News in July 2018 there were over 100 overdoses from this harmful drug.

See the 9 news report here: 

What packages of K2 may look like

Now in 2020 according to a report by the Filter website  “K2” or “spice,” has been recently popping up in Toronto’s  Canada illicit opioid supply amid a national surge in fatal overdoses. 

This K2 variant was found in “trace amounts,” or “less than five percent of the drug found,” the alert written by the Center on Drug Policy Evaluation (CDPE) noted, though its exact strength is unknown.
On June 15, the Canadian city’s drug checking service issued an alert warning about their unexpected identification of ACHMINACA in nine (or 30 percent) of examined heroin/fentanyl samples between May 20 and June 5.

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Naming synthetic cannabinoids

Many of the early synthetic cannabinoids that were synthesized for use in research were named after either the scientist who first synthesized them or the institution or company where they originated. For example, JWH compounds are named after John W. Huffman and AM compounds are named after Alexandros Makriyannis, the scientists who first synthesized those cannabinoids. HU compounds are named after Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the institution where they were first synthesized, and CP compounds are named after Charles Pfizer, the company where they were first synthesized. Site source here:

With the COVID-19 pandemic and the raise in co-occurring disorders relating to mental health (depression) addictions, suicidal ideations and or domestic violence people are hurting.  

The fact that the coronavirus has been the front news, the opioid crisis must again be reported to the people with what is happening as far as the epidemic whether good news or bad.  

Here is something to ponder if the reports from Canada are true… Lord help us!

Let’s talk about it–share your thoughts.