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&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3414058129327136189-5952584332694717275?l=spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~4/mpK8zV0Xls4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/5952584332694717275?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/5952584332694717275?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~3/mpK8zV0Xls4/narconon-arrowhead-drug-education-video.html" title="Narconon Arrowhead Drug Education Video" /><author><name>John W. Bitinas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09281274878637424175</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/09/narconon-arrowhead-drug-education-video.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEQGQ3k7eyp7ImA9WxVUFkg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414058129327136189.post-8492039895856158984</id><published>2009-03-21T07:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-21T09:18:42.703-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-03-21T09:18:42.703-07:00</app:edited><title>WE DID IT!</title><content type="html">&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/ScT-ExGxMJI/AAAAAAAAABw/cFPJZMmwS1Q/s1600-h/January+-+March+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315652818058686610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/ScT-ExGxMJI/AAAAAAAAABw/cFPJZMmwS1Q/s400/January+-+March+022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; AFTER ALL THE HARD WORK, AFTER ALL THE BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS, WE DID IT. NARCONON ARROWHEAD EFFECTIVELY REACHED 65,088 KIDS THIS YEAR! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;This is a very well done! To Narconon Arrowhead and their staff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"If we can do this this year, just imagine what we will do in the future." &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;                                                                                                John Bitinas&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3414058129327136189-8492039895856158984?l=spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~4/7SXpZiEZOTM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/8492039895856158984?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/8492039895856158984?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~3/7SXpZiEZOTM/we-did-it.html" title="WE DID IT!" /><author><name>John W. Bitinas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09281274878637424175</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/ScT-ExGxMJI/AAAAAAAAABw/cFPJZMmwS1Q/s72-c/January+-+March+022.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com/2009/03/we-did-it.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEQHR3k5fCp7ImA9WxRaFEk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414058129327136189.post-3146541001388400549</id><published>2008-12-16T06:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-16T07:45:36.724-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-12-16T07:45:36.724-08:00</app:edited><title>SAVING LIVES CAMPAIGN!!!!</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SUfMxQVXtdI/AAAAAAAAABo/Ec8LMY604bk/s1600-h/November-+December+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280414234685453778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SUfMxQVXtdI/AAAAAAAAABo/Ec8LMY604bk/s400/November-+December+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;60,000 LIVES SAVED BY MARCH 13TH 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Hello Everyone,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;We are working eight days a week to reach our target of 60,000 students before March 13th 2009. When we hit this target Narconon Arrowhead will be the first to deliver this many students in one year. We are pulling on all stops to get this done, but we still need your help. If you are in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, or Arkansas and want free drug education before March 13th 2009 contact Narconon Arrowhead at 1-800-468-6933 or email us at &lt;a href="mailto:druged@stopaddiciton.com"&gt;druged@stopaddiciton.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3414058129327136189-3146541001388400549?l=spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~4/HPr51hDRFpM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/3146541001388400549?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/3146541001388400549?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~3/HPr51hDRFpM/saving-lives-campaign.html" title="SAVING LIVES CAMPAIGN!!!!" /><author><name>John W. Bitinas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09281274878637424175</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SUfMxQVXtdI/AAAAAAAAABo/Ec8LMY604bk/s72-c/November-+December+009.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com/2008/12/saving-lives-campaign.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Ck4DR3g6fSp7ImA9WxRVE0k.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414058129327136189.post-5503540604328772988</id><published>2008-11-10T07:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T10:16:16.615-08:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-11-10T10:16:16.615-08:00</app:edited><title>Narconon  has been Kicking Butt!</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SRh5lPOFcGI/AAAAAAAAABM/mrGVi2N1gVQ/s1600-h/Sept+thru+Oct.+027.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267093444857524322" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 186px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 127px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SRh5lPOFcGI/AAAAAAAAABM/mrGVi2N1gVQ/s320/Sept+thru+Oct.+027.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SRh5FhktO2I/AAAAAAAAABE/Oeqb4JG7gm8/s1600-h/Sept+thru+Oct.+016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267092900028431202" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SRh5FhktO2I/AAAAAAAAABE/Oeqb4JG7gm8/s320/Sept+thru+Oct.+016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The last two months haves been very exciting and I have been really busy educating kids and kicking some serious butt doing it. &lt;a href="http://www.stopaddiction.com/"&gt;Narconon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.stopaddiction.com/"&gt;Arrowhead&lt;/a&gt; has reached 18,000 kids in the last two months. Here are some pictures of our lectures. We are so close to reaching our goal of 50,000 but we still need your help please contact &lt;a href="http://www.stopaddiction.com/"&gt;Narconon Arrowhead&lt;/a&gt; if you are a school, community group, or church group that would like more information on the thruth about drugs. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You can reach us at 800.468.6933 or you can also visit our website at &lt;a href="http://www.stopaddiction.com/"&gt;www.stopaddiction.com&lt;/a&gt; and learn more about how Narconon is helping your community. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3414058129327136189-5503540604328772988?l=spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~4/MDse2Q_MkPw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/5503540604328772988?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/5503540604328772988?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~3/MDse2Q_MkPw/narconon-has-been-kicking-butt.html" title="Narconon  has been Kicking Butt!" /><author><name>John W. Bitinas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09281274878637424175</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SRh5lPOFcGI/AAAAAAAAABM/mrGVi2N1gVQ/s72-c/Sept+thru+Oct.+027.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com/2008/11/narconon-has-been-kicking-butt.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkMGR30zeSp7ImA9WxdaFkw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414058129327136189.post-7027628691655615489</id><published>2008-08-24T13:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-24T13:40:26.381-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-08-24T13:40:26.381-07:00</app:edited><title>Whats Everyone Talking About!</title><content type="html">Everyone is talking about &lt;a href="http://www.stopaddiction.com/"&gt;Narconon&lt;/a&gt; and their amazing Drug and Alcohol Prevention program. Since school is back in our phones have been ringing off the hook, and we are scheduling more and more schools everyday. We are looking to have another record year, and we plan on reaching 50,000 kids this year, with your support we can easily accomplish this incredible mission.&lt;br /&gt;       If you represent a school or community group and you are interested in learnig more about our drug prevention and education services please feel free to contact us at 1-800-468-6933 or you can email us at &lt;a href="mailto:Druged@stopaddiction.com"&gt;Druged@stopaddiction.com&lt;/a&gt;. If you or someone you know needs help with drugs or alcohol please visit our website &lt;a href="http://www.stopaddiction.com/"&gt;www.stopaddiction.com&lt;/a&gt; to learn more information about how Narconon Arrowhead can help.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3414058129327136189-7027628691655615489?l=spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~4/3rF8Xk84d2M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/7027628691655615489?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/7027628691655615489?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~3/3rF8Xk84d2M/whats-everyone-talking-about.html" title="Whats Everyone Talking About!" /><author><name>John W. Bitinas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09281274878637424175</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com/2008/08/whats-everyone-talking-about.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEEBRHwzeyp7ImA9WxdbFEQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414058129327136189.post-593302629454710859</id><published>2008-08-11T14:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-11T15:10:55.283-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-08-11T15:10:55.283-07:00</app:edited><title>Getting Ready for the Fall!</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SKC3s0fdV9I/AAAAAAAAAA8/BKBBvSx_UIs/s1600-h/DSC00473[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233384747637233618" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SKC3s0fdV9I/AAAAAAAAAA8/BKBBvSx_UIs/s320/DSC00473%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The school year is kicking off and we are rocking and rolling here at &lt;a href="http://www.stopaddiction.com/"&gt;Narconon Arrowhead&lt;/a&gt;. The summer was fun and really busy, but now its time to get the word out and spread the truth about drugs in the schools and in your communities. We’re looking to reach 50,000 kids this year, as of right now we have already reached 11,089 kids since March 13th of 2008. we need to hit our target and we will with your help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John W. Bitinas&lt;br /&gt;Director of Drug Education&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you or someone you know would like to schedule drug education please contact Narconon Arrowhead 1-800-468-6933&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3414058129327136189-593302629454710859?l=spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~4/us4LejbhIT4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/593302629454710859?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/593302629454710859?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~3/us4LejbhIT4/getting-ready-for-fall.html" title="Getting Ready for the Fall!" /><author><name>John W. Bitinas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09281274878637424175</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SKC3s0fdV9I/AAAAAAAAAA8/BKBBvSx_UIs/s72-c/DSC00473%5B1%5D.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com/2008/08/getting-ready-for-fall.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEYHQXc7eCp7ImA9WxdXEEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414058129327136189.post-8320030076932300825</id><published>2008-06-21T09:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-21T09:35:30.900-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-06-21T09:35:30.900-07:00</app:edited><title>Award Winning Drug Education Specialist, John Bitinas.</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SF0tQdr0bDI/AAAAAAAAAA0/9btMxrPR_NM/s1600-h/John+B.+Award.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214373704434478130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SF0tQdr0bDI/AAAAAAAAAA0/9btMxrPR_NM/s320/John+B.+Award.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;John Bitinas, Director of Drug Education for &lt;a href="http://www.methamphetamineaddiction.com/"&gt;Narconon&lt;/a&gt; Arrowhead was recently honored at &lt;b&gt;Narconon®&lt;/b&gt; International and received an Award for the Highest Delivery of Drug Education in the Narconon Network for the year 2007!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John delivered drug education to &lt;b&gt;34,477&lt;/b&gt; children and adults in the year 2007. This was very well done!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"It has been a life changing year. Not just for myself, but for all of those lives that I have touched through Drug Education. I know in my heart that I made a difference in this world. My goal this year is to reach 50,000 people and to keep educating the communities about the effects of drugs and alcohol on the mind and body." John Bitinas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stopaddiction.com/"&gt;Narconon &lt;/a&gt;Arrowhead would like to thank Narconon International and Bobby Wiggins for this honor and to congratulate John for his success. We are glad that he is part of our team!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are booking for summmer. If any of you have community events happening that you would like to see Narconon's Drug Education Services at, please contact &lt;b&gt;John Bitinas at &lt;a href="mailto:druged@stopaddiction.com"&gt;druged@stopaddiction.com&lt;/a&gt; 1-800-468-6933&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3414058129327136189-8320030076932300825?l=spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~4/ZO2NyF9wK1Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/8320030076932300825?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/8320030076932300825?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~3/ZO2NyF9wK1Y/award-winning-drug-education-specialist.html" title="Award Winning Drug Education Specialist, John Bitinas." /><author><name>John W. Bitinas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09281274878637424175</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SF0tQdr0bDI/AAAAAAAAAA0/9btMxrPR_NM/s72-c/John+B.+Award.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com/2008/06/award-winning-drug-education-specialist.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DE4MRHozfSp7ImA9WxdSGUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414058129327136189.post-7243042998204045656</id><published>2008-05-24T11:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-28T08:03:05.485-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-05-28T08:03:05.485-07:00</app:edited><title>Summer is here!</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SD1y_7wt3nI/AAAAAAAAAAc/zfDWyZW1EZ0/s1600-h/Bethel+Middle+School++Bethel++OK+March+26th+2008+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205443187009511026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SD1y_7wt3nI/AAAAAAAAAAc/zfDWyZW1EZ0/s320/Bethel+Middle+School++Bethel++OK+March+26th+2008+005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SD1yfLwt3mI/AAAAAAAAAAU/exWbW48sqls/s1600-h/Bethel+Middle+School++Bethel++OK+March+26th+2008+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here at Narconon Arrowhead we know that you care about the youth in your community. There is no better way to help them, then to educate them on the dangers associated with drug and alcohol abuse.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is important that each and everyone of us do our part to make sure that we can all erridicate drugs and alcohol in our communities through drug education.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;How you can help:&lt;/b&gt; Contact the Narconon Arrowhead Drug Education Department at &lt;b&gt;1-800-468-6933&lt;/b&gt; or you can email us at &lt;a href="mailto:druged@stopaddiction.com"&gt;druged@stopaddiction.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;If your community has any summer events scheduled that you would see drug education presented at, please call or email us the location, date, and whom to contact. We would be happy to come speak to your community. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;Together we can change the whole world, one child at a time. Through education and determination.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3414058129327136189-7243042998204045656?l=spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~4/s3pbIbZ7ghw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/7243042998204045656?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3414058129327136189/posts/default/7243042998204045656?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NarcononPreventionEducationServices/~3/s3pbIbZ7ghw/summer-is-here.html" title="Summer is here!" /><author><name>John W. Bitinas</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09281274878637424175</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp3.blogger.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/SD1y_7wt3nI/AAAAAAAAAAc/zfDWyZW1EZ0/s72-c/Bethel+Middle+School++Bethel++OK+March+26th+2008+005.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://spreadingthetruthaboutdrugs.blogspot.com/2008/05/summer-is-here.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkUHSXg9eCp7ImA9WxZWFUQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414058129327136189.post-8624164900623507897</id><published>2008-03-15T08:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-15T09:23:58.660-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-03-15T09:23:58.660-07:00</app:edited><title>The decision that saved my life!</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/R9v1Ced8ylI/AAAAAAAAAAM/xN3yHWoYSXw/s1600-h/John+B..bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178001619479743058" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_kYuOyqojPpE/R9v1Ced8ylI/AAAAAAAAAAM/xN3yHWoYSXw/s200/John+B..bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;"This is my story of how I changed my life and overcame addiction. I came into drugs and alcohol at an early age. I was twelve years old when I took my first drink; I’ll always remember that feeling I had. That type of mentality followed me into my teenage years. At fourteen years old I started smoking marijuana to fit in with the older crowd. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Before I started using drugs, I was doing well, either playing sports or busy with school. The older I got, the more I was smoking marijuana. It got to the point where that wasn’t enough for me anymore, which is when I started to drink socially. At sixteen years old I began mixing the two at parties or when hanging out with my friends. I was still showing up for school and my social life had never been better, but something was different. I noticed that I was more devious to my family and friends by making excuses and lying to them about where I was going and what I was doing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"As I got older and continued to use drugs and drink alcohol, I found myself losing interest in my goals and my desire to better myself. I became anti-social and completely oblivious to anything or anyone around me. I wasn’t getting high like I was before; the feeling would wear off in an hour so it would take more drugs to sustain my high. I started experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs like LSD and psychedelic mushrooms. This, added to what I was doing before, brought me to a new plateau of what I thought was just another high. I completely blinded myself to the cycle of drug addiction that I was creating in my life--a cycle that would almost claim my life many times. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"After graduating from high school, I was ready to go out and make things happen for myself, completely neglecting the fact of who I had become--an alcoholic and daily drug user, trying to push myself to just accomplish anything so that I could earn money to support my habit. At this period in my life, I went to college and failed out my freshman year due to poor grades. On top of drinking heavily, I began using cocaine and ecstasy at parties. I got into a bad car accident with a telephone pole while driving under the influence. I was going nowhere in life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"At this point, my family sat me down and did an intervention. They said, ‘John, you need to get your life together. We found this place in Oklahoma called &lt;a href="http://www.stopaddiction.com/"&gt;Narconon Arrowhead&lt;/a&gt; that can help you.’ At that point my reality was so skewed that I said, ‘Sure, if it gets me out of Lowell, Massachusetts.’ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The next day I was at &lt;b&gt;Narconon®&lt;/b&gt; starting the first step of my program. The people at Narconon were very nice to me and helped me feel comfortable in my new environment."My program was not easy; in fact, it was the single hardest thing I have ever done! I rid the toxins from my body and let go of the desire to want to use drugs. Then the life skills courses gave me the tools needed to succeed in life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"After graduating the Narconon program I made the best decision I’ve made in long time--to stay and work at Narconon Arrowhead. I now go to schools and do presentations to students about the dangers and truth about drugs. I take this very seriously because I know the power that drugs can have over the body and mind. This program gave me my life back and now I look forward to sharing my experience with younger minds." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- John Bitinas&lt;br /&gt;Narconon Arrowhead Graduate October 19th, 2006&lt;br /&gt;(Story written March of 2008)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;If you would like more information on Drug Education for your community please contact John at 1-800-468-6933 or email him at &lt;a href="mailto:druged@stopaddiction.com"&gt;druged@stopaddiction.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;© 2008 Narconon of Oklahoma, Inc. All rights reserved. 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