event details posted by: Cathie begins: Oct 29, 10:40 pm ends: Dec 31, 9:40 pm location: 444 N. Third St., Phila., PA PRO-ACT offers training to help families address addiction problems in a loved one.

Each month PRO-ACT (Pennsylvania Recovery Organization–Achieving Community Together) hosts a Family Program to help individuals and families recognize and address an addiction problem in a spouse, parent, child or other loved one. The professionally facilitated information and support programs run one evening a week for three consecutive weeks. Each session lasts two hours.

Programs are offered at several locations, including:
• Bucks County/Central — Begins first Thursday of each month. Program meets at North Penn Community Health Foundation, 2506 Broad St., Colmar, Pa.
• Bucks County/South — Begins first Thursday of each month. Program meets at Southern Bucks Recovery Community Center in the Bristol Office Center, 1286 Veterans Hwy., Bristol, Pa.

Drugs are essentially poisons. The amount taken determines the effect. 

A small amount acts as a stimulant (increases activity). A greater amount acts as a sedative (suppresses activity). A still larger amount poisons and can kill. 

Solution to World-Wide Drug Abuse Starts at Grass Roots Level

Drugs - Prime Threat is to Youth

In America alone, 50% of school children have experimented with an illicit drug or are using one. At the same time, youths are exposed to drugs earlier and earlier in their lives, with some using marijuana as young as ten years old. That is not to mention Ritalin—now referred to as “Kiddie Coke” on the street. A psychotropic drug prescribed to millions of children, Ritalin is today a bestselling drug.
 Statistically proven, young users suffer more illnesses, miss more days of school, and are more prone to engage in criminal conduct than their non-using peers.