Huffing / Teeb Drug Abuse / Teen Addiction

Huffing is an increasingly common abuse behavior. Huffing is often associated with teens and young adults. It is considered a drug abuse and an addiction, due to the severe side effects, potential for death, and addictive nature of the behavior. Huffing, huffing abuse, and huffing addiction, is also known as inhalant abuse or inhalant addiction. Huffing is the intentional inhalation or breathing- in of chemical vapors to achieve an impairment or altered mental or physical condition. Abusers inhale vapors emitted from a variety of substances. Chemical vapors used as inhalants can be found in over 1,000 common household products. Common products are products which emit aerosols, gases, and nitrites. Addiction treatment is the most preferred approach for huffing and inhalant abuse or addiction.

HUFFING AND THE NEED FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT
Huffing by teenage adolescents, is a growing concern for parents, educators, addiction treatment professionals, and our nation. In an effort to save teenager’s lives, the addiction treatment community, mental health professionals, and the medical community, strongly encourage parents, teens, and families, to seek the assistance of addiction treatment centers, as a solution to the problem, abuse, and addiction to huffing. Teenage drug rehab provides the therapeutic tools for teens to learn to recover from the addiction to huffing.

Inspirations Teen Rehab
Inspirations Teen Rehab is an adolescent rehab, providing teen drug treatment and therapeutic programs meeting the traditional teen drug addiction and current or “fad” drug addictions. Inspirations Teen Rehab offers an addiction treatment program consisting of an individualized addiction treatment plan for adolescents, as well as their nationally renowned “Sober Life, Sober Choices” Program. All programs include individual, group, and family therapy sessions, traditional addiction therapy and experiential addiction therapy, including art therapy, music therapy, trauma therapy, equine therapy, 12 steps to recovery, recreational therapy, and a life skills program.

Inspiration’s Huffing Rehab or Huffing Treatment is a four-phase approach:
Phase 1: Intervention
Phase 2: Addiction Treatment with a minimum 90 day individualized treatment plan
Phase 3: Sober Life, Sober Choices
Phase 4: Aftercare and Case Management

If you know or suspect a teen is intentionally inhalating or breathing- in chemical vapors, call for help. Inspirations Teen Rehab is a nationally recognized adolescent drug treatment center, designed to meet the needs of teens and their families. A call today, could save your teens life. www.inspirationsteenrehab.com 888-757-6237.

Teen Drug Abuse and OTC medicine

Over the counter drugs (also known as OTC’s), have become an increasing problem for parents and businesses, due to the growing popularity for teens trying to get high. OTC drugs commonly abused by teens are cough and cold medicines, and medicines designed to treat sinus pressure, cold and flu symptoms, fever, and headaches. The OTC medicines abused by teens contain dextromethorphan, also known as DXM. Popular OTC cough and cold medicine brands include Coricidin, Robitussin, Triaminic, and Vicks.

Teens abuse the OTC drugs by taking large doses orally, to achieve a “high” and often mix these drugs with prescription drugs, marijuana, other street drugs, and alcohol. Teens may also crush the contents of the pill form of OTC drugs, and inhale the drug through nasal passages.

Teens abusing OTC drugs, have both short -term and long- term effects as a result of OTC drug use, drug abuse, and drug addiction. The Short-term effects include hospitalization, impaired judgment, nausea, loss of coordination, headache, vomiting, loss of consciousness, numbness of fingers and toes, abdominal pain, irregular heartbeat, aches, seizures, panic attacks, psychosis, euphoria, cold flashes, dizziness and diarrhea. Long-term effects include restlessness, insomnia, high-blood pressure, coma, or death.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has classified DXM as a “drug of concern”, due to the abuse and addiction to OTC drugs as well as the danger associated with DXM. Although many stores have placed DXM products behind the pharmacy counter, many stores (grocery) still provide the supply of DXM and OTC drugs on the shelves for anyone’s purchase. DXM and OTC drugs are not age restricted for purchase.

Teen Drug Treatment for OTC drug abuse and addiction is found in a teen drug rehab that incorporates an individual treatment plan and an educational component for OTC drug abuse, in the teen drug rehabilitation program. The purpose of choosing to send a teen to a teen drug rehab is to address the drug abuse behavior immediately and prevent permanent damage to the teen. Teens will gain an understanding of the cycle of addiction, gain knowledge of the 12 steps to recovery, cultivate individual accountability for daily life responsibilities, and begin to focus on family life and participation in the family, respecting and adhering to family structure, rules, boundaries, and guidelines. Teen rehab also provides numerous therapies to address issues that may have led to a teen “self medicating”. Therapies include individual, group, family, trauma, coping skills, education, music and art therapy, as well as a variety of experiential and holistic therapies.

If you know or suspect a teen is abusing or addicted to OTC drugs, call for help. Inspirations Teen Rehab is a nationally recognized adolescent drug treatment center, designed to meet the needs of teens and their families. Call 888-757-6237
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Responses to Witnesses and Informants

The witnesses and informants in the Miami Companions (MC) case are beginning to climb out the ditch and initiate first contact in attempt to involve others in this mess of a case. If you signed-up for a PACER account and read the complaints and the main indictment, well, then you are aware of the number of potential witnesses and informants involved.

What are plausible responses when you suspect that a witness or informant in the case is emailing or calling you begging to meet with you?

A list of stories to use when you want to avoid further contact:

1. I'd love to meet with you, but my dog died today and he was sooo fond of the crystal blue water in Nassau that we are having him cremated so that we can scatter his ashes while hang gliding over the white sand beaches of Nassau. Ciao.

2. I think I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. My leg is swelling and I have this huge, hard red area right on my thigh, a fever that is worsening by the minute, and I've got to run throw-up before the ambulance gets here…click.

3. Oh my friggin God! All I did was flush the toilet – I swear – and the water won't stop. I'm standing in water up to my ankles and the plumber still isn't here! This is horrible and we'll be in a hotel for days. Can I call you back another time?

4. I think you've been screwing my boyfriend behind my back and now you both want to kill me. I will be talking it over with my psychiatrist this afternoon and he'll tell me if I should meet you or not, but don't hold your breath. Click.

5. Answer the phone and start one of these recordings at the same time (repeat as often as necessary):

Number was successfully traced

The call you have made requires a coin deposit

Your call cannot be completed, please check the instruction manual

The phone you are calling from is not in service

Your line has been temporarily disconnected

The number dialed cannot be reached from your area


Okay – here's a link to the Phone Recording Archive. Mix and match as you see fit, but most important - have fun with it! 


Image: Incredibly Busy Man 2005 © Victor Prikhodko / 2010 © iStockphoto.com

The Network Blockers and the Hotels

I have spent so many years of my life investigating the bizarre and sophisticated line blocking that is still ongoing at Orlando area resorts that I often feel as if abandoning the project is in my best interest. When I discovered that Eddie Munoz of Las Vegas has been on a similar trail for 17 years and approached the problem by documenting evidence and filing court cases, well, I felt vindicated in some small way. At least no one that has taken a few hours to read through his various case documents and the trial testimony can call Vicky crazy, and anyone that doesn't bother with the easy research is immaterial and has no leg to stand on here anyway.

Still to this day I am collecting statistics and have a front for a business that doesn't do business. It all exists for the research. The only booking that I've done is to cover the expenses of that research, and I am positive that I'd have little trouble proving that if it ever reaches such a point.

Sometimes I throw statements and assertions out there as a fishing line of sorts. Yes, I admit that. When I toss out my fishing line it is with the intention of provoking reaction. I collect more information on what transpires next and specific incidents that are new and an obvious result of my rouse. I am sure that Eddie Munoz in Las Vegas does the same. It all still always comes down to what I positively know, what I believe is probable, and what I consider a possibility.

It is my intention to explore the facts, the probabilities, and the possibilities in depth during the next couple of months or longer on this blog, tackling one issue and situation at a time. At the conclusion of each post I will label it accordingly.

It will be like solving a bizarre and sophisticated puzzle – one that top telephone company security techs have failed to resolve, so it will be some work. I would appreciate any possible insight from any direction and will publish comments that pertain to the situation. Consider this notice that the puzzle will be the central topic here for the foreseeable future.

 
Image: Telephone Numbers 2008 © Andrey Volodin / 2010 © iStockphoto.com

Client Lists and the Good Fight

Okay, so I admit that I posted the Patriot Act and sinus pills stuff early this morning just because I am tired of discussing the Miami Companions situation. People keep emailing me about it, asking my advice, and even requesting consultations.

Well, there's nothing to consult about in this situation, but if one pushes me enough then sure, I'll take $45 via PayPal to chat with you for an hour on the telephone. Would I accept payment for a couple of hours to meet you in person? Hell no; I'm not stupid, and as a matter of fact, I am as far from stupid as you will ever encounter when it comes to set-ups and word games. I survived a decade in the escort business in Orlando by dodging set-ups and playing word games.

Though I can never be sure of a person's goal when they offer money to meet me in person with their "friend" that is somehow involved in this mess, but decline to offer reasoning or even names, it smells to me and that's all that matters. Not all money is good money – a motto that I followed throughout my years in the business.

As I state in Memoirs of an Accused Madam, in the chapter about the bizarre trial, I decided way back in 1996 to barbecue the client books that I had from four years of business. From that point forward I kept only accounting records – that's right – never accepted credit cards for the entire duration of the business and never recorded client information beyond mid-1996 when I had the barbecue. I did explain this to the jury when I testified in my defense and the prosecutor screamed his demand to know where my records were. When I chose to toss it all in a fire I did so as I realized that such records could never benefit anyone – not me, not the escort, and not the client – so why keep any?

So really, I am sorry for you if you chose to book with Miami Companions so that you could use your credit card, but now you want my advice? Hell, you haven't even read my book. It will be a cold day in hell when I fall into any set-up so that any person with any part in the Miami Companions mess might save themselves. I'm the one that passed on credit cards and fried the client lists long ago. I'm the one that skipped all that money because I knew better than to cross a state line, and certainly better than to conduct such business in other countries.

I am also the one that won and was acquitted by a jury of my peers. So exactly how stupid do you think that I am?


Image: Justitia 2010 © Aleksandr Pakhay / 2010 © iStockphoto.com 

The Patriot Act and Sinus Pills

I'm still not quite sure how this happened or who specifically caused it, but by now most people living in the US are aware of the restrictions placed on the sale of sinus pills. It all began during the Bush regime as did most of the serious problems in this country today.

Congress passed the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 (CMEA) as an amendment to the USA Patriot Act and Bush signed it into law in March of 2006. What particular form of idiots have we the people elected to Congress? It's easy to blame Bush, but he was always acting on the recommendations of others and legislation passed by Congress in every ridiculous act he committed, from sanctioning torture to the USA Patriot Act to the CMEA. The man was a puppet and little more.

I have had serious sinus troubles since 1994. I recall the trigger that resulted in the sinus troubles, but that is immaterial to the problem at this point. At some point in the late 1990s, a doctor recommended that I have sinus surgery, but I've never been one to opt for any medical procedure that could be avoided. So from the late 1990s forward, I have taken sinus pills more days than I haven't. The ability to move, breath, and think is important to me and the sinus pills allowed me these life-sustaining functions.

For the last five years or so I have consumed, on the average, a box of 40 Advil Sinus pills over the course of a month. An adult takes two at a time, so this is not as bad as it initially sounds. Thanks to Congress, Bush, and the USA Patriot Act I have had to sign my name to unread and unknown agreements each time I purchased a box. Does anyone really read that crap? I know that I don't, mainly because it doesn't matter what it says – I still need the stupid box of Advil Sinus. I cannot even take Claritin-D or any of the better sinus and allergy drugs like most people because I have had thyroid disease for 22 years now, and Synthroid and Claritin-D do not mix. I am limited by my own health issues to the less potent Advil Sinus.

Leave it to the fucking US government to make it a ridiculous hurdle to get a lousy box of Advil Sinus. I remember when this legislation was first passed and I spoke to a friend that is also a pharmacist as I was concerned – Is this a horrible drug I've been taking? Is it this meth crap? No, I was assured with a laugh – the law is ridiculous because it would take 80 flippin boxes of Advil Sinus to make any amount of methamphetamine. So what the hell is the problem that Congress would pass such a law? Are these representatives in a state of paranoia or what?

I was in Publix today grocery shopping and as a last minute thought I popped over to the pharmacy to buy a box of 20 Advil Sinus pills – half of a full box mind you. The clerk at one window was quick to ask if she could help me and I pointed at the box on the shelf, which is crazy in itself. Why can't I grab the box from a shelf? Anyway, she then stated that I'd have to pay at the other window so that's where I proceeded. As I approached the window the pharmacist declared that there were many people in front of me, so I stated that I only needed to pay for the Advil Sinus box. She actually glared at me and repeated firmly that I was behind many people.

Am I dumb enough to wait behind people having prescriptions filled to pay for the stupid Advil Sinus pills? No, I'm not. This was only the second time that I have ever gone to the Publix pharmacy for such a purchase and the same pharmacist was rude the first time – a month ago. So I said, "What? You're rude," and walked away. I'll be damned if I will be looked down at or viewed as a problem by some bitchy pharmacist at a Publix that has a sign sheet in front of her that states "Combat Meth".

What in the hell does my attempt to purchase a lousy box of sinus pills have to do with combating methamphetamine? Nothing whatsoever, which is why I was ticked off.


Image: My Hands are Tied 2005 © Christine Gonsalves / 2010 © iStockphoto.com

Miami Companions Indictment Excerpts

Because it has been a popular request I am posting the parts of the Miami Companions complaint that pertain to the client database. To read the complaint and any other documents that are public records in the case you must only open an account with PACER. If you have a debit or credit card you will usually have account access on the same day.

The excerpts that pertain to the client database kept by Miami Companions:

#13 - "... On behalf of Miami Companions, defendants NAYUBET LOANI SWASO, MICHELLE MATARAZZO, and/or other Miami Companions employees answering the telephones would "verify" the john by requesting employment information in order that Miami Companions could confirm that the john was not law enforcement and that he was employed. Once the john was "verified," an appointment with one of the prostitutes could be scheduled."

#16 - "Each of the johns paid the women in cash at the beginning of the appointment in exchange for sexual acts. On occasion, the johns would pay by credit card. The credit card statement for the transaction would read "MC Consulting Associates.""

#27 - "The Miami Companions database was administered by ITI Technical Solutions Inc. and its employees in exchange for payment for services by GREG CARR, LAURIE CARR, or MICHELLE MATARAZZO, on behalf of Miami Companions. Payments to ITI Technical Solutions Inc. and its employees typically were made with funds from the Bank of America MC Consulting Associates bank account."

#28 - The Miami Companions database, which was password protected, contained information about the johns, including their place of employment, contact information, and sexual preferences, as well as calendar information regarding which women were traveling to which cities to perform sexual acts in exchange for money with the johns."

#29 - "Miami Companions employees could access the database in order to "verify" the johns when the johns called to schedule an appointment with one of the women. Miami Companions employees could enter information regarding appointments and new clients to the database. The database was password-protected, and security features were used to prohibit employees from being able to copy or delete the database. Some of the employees of ITI Technical Solutions Inc. knew that Miami Companions was a prostitution business, and these employees assisted defendants GREG CARR, and LAURIE CARR and Miami Companions in the operation of the prostitution business by, among other things, assisting in adding security features in order to hide the database from law enforcement, designing the calendar to accommodate designations of appointments with various women working as prostitutes with johns in the South Florida area and in cities to which the women were traveling, and including a client database of tens of thousands of client names that included information about the clients' employment, contact information, and sexual likes and dislikes. In order to avoid detection by law enforcement, the database was hosted on a server in Panama, but was accessible from the United States through password-protected Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)."

It appears that the Miami Companions website has now been taken down.

Edit - 10/13/2010 - Follow short instructions on this later blog post for free download of PDF of indictment: Miami Companions Indictment PDF 

Edit - 10 December 2010 - See latest post on this blog for links to the indictment and a related complaint.