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Each drug rehab in Walnut Creek, North Carolina has a different approach to the recovery process. Take note of what is important to you, and make decisions based on your personal needs. Keep in mind that in Walnut Creek there are a multitude of treatment options to choose from: outpatient treatment, in patient treatment, support groups, drug rehabilitation, alcohol rehab, drug treatment programs, sober living, halfway houses, long term treatment, short term treatment, counseling, and many more. An individual can become thoroughly confused by asking a half-dozen recovering alcoholics or drug addicts in Walnut Creek how they conquered their abuse of alcohol or drugs; the answers vary although each of them are convincing and emotional. They will cite such diverse approaches as hospitalization, diet, exercise, counseling, sauna's, religion, hypnosis, amino acids and self-help groups. When it comes to successful treatment, only one thing is certain: practically any approach will work for some of the people, some of the time. To put it another way, successful drug rehabilitation is like a designer suit- it's got to be tailor-made for each individual. A great deal of variation exists in the degree of dependence among drug users. The teenager who smokes marijuana three times a week is not as dependent as the thirty year old who has smoked marijuana six times a day for 15 years and has already relapsed after being in two drug rehabilitation centers. It's obvious that these individuals need different approaches to treatment. Similarly, among cocaine users are some who use it in binge fashion, one or two days a month, and others who use it several times each day. Again, different treatment approaches are required for each case.

For those who do not have a long history of drug addiction, an outpatient treatment program might be the correct decision. This form of treatment may be a viable solution for those who have a brief drug addiction history. These individuals might only need the guidance and counseling available though this method of treatment. On the other hand, those who have experienced an extended period of drug addiction, choosing the correct drug rehab program typically means that they should enter into an in patient drug rehab program not located in Walnut Creek. The structure, 24-hour support and change of enviornment made available through this type of drug rehab recovery program can be highly effective for those recovering from a long term drug addiction problem. Most drug rehab professionals in do not recommend any one "best" treatment approach, recognizing the many variations among drug and alcohol abusers. In general, the levels of treatment range from simple and behavioral to complex and medical. The person dependent upon drugs or alcohol may have used the chosen substance for so long that he or she has literally forgotten how to cope with the daily challenges of life; how to have a meaningful, drug-free lifestyle; or how to solve the social or psychological problems that prompted the substance abuse in the first place. In these instances, a very comprehensive approach must be prescribed if the individual is to expect any degree of successful recovery. Once stability is achieved, the "clean" or sober individual can take several steps to enhance recovery and avoid relapse. Among the general recommendations are belonging to a group as a support system, having a religious involvement, practicing good health habits; including proper diet, sleep, and exercise, as well as goal planning and self enhancement projects.

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North Carolina State Facts
Population: 8,186,268
Law Enforcement Officers: 20,006
State Prison Population: 48,300
Probation Population: 112,900
Violent Crime Rate
National Ranking: 19 2004 Federal Drug Seizures
Cocaine: 391.3 kgs.
Heroin: 3.1 kgs.
Methamphetamine: 12.7 kgs.
Marijuana: 237.7 kgs.
Ecstasy: 5,921 tablets
Methamphetamine Laboratories: 243 (DEA, state, and local)

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Drug Situation: North Carolina has experienced a significant increase in drug trafficking activity, the majority of it due to the influx of Mexican nationals into the state. Since 1980, Raleigh's Hispanic population of immigrants grew 1,189 percent, or by an estimated 72,580 immigrants. Also, since 1980, Charlotte's Hispanic population of immigrants grew 962 percent, or an estimated 77,092 immigrants. Greensboro's Hispanic immigrants grew 962 percent as well, or by an estimated 62,210 immigrants. These figures are only estimates due to the difficulty in identifying the number of immigrants located throughout the state with illegal residency. While the immigrants themselves may not be involved in trafficking, their presence allows traffickers from Mexico to hide within ethnic Mexican communities. They most commonly transport and distribute cocaine, marijuana, and methamphetamine. In addition, the rapid population growth in areas such as Raleigh has resulted in additional crime, including an increase in drug trafficking activity.

Cocaine: North Carolina is a staging and transshipment point to states to the North, including Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and others. The state continues to be a destination state for cocaine. It is readily available and major traffickers take advantage of the state's interstate highways, which are major transshipment routes for cocaine being transported from source areas to other states. These major source areas are California, Arizona and Texas, with major sources of supply being traffickers based in Mexico. Cocaine is usually shipped in private or rental vehicles. Cocaine loads arriving in North Carolina by Mexican organizations are used to supply crack distribution networks that further present an enormous social threat to North Carolina's inner city communities.

Heroin: Heroin use and availability is extremely low in North Carolina. Many areas of the state, such as Greenville, Durham and Rocky Mount, report that heroin abuse has been limited to an increasingly smaller population of older abusers. In 2003, the Raleigh RO initiated a heroin investigation of a Chinese trafficker who subsequently died leaving abusers in the Raleigh area without a source for heroin. The North Carolina Highway Patrol occasionally makes small one to four pound seizures of heroin transiting the state enroute to the Northeast.

Methamphetamine: Methamphetamine cases have been on the rise in some parts of North Carolina, such as Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro and Asheville; however, rural communities in many counties of the western part of the state have experienced a surge in methamphetamine trafficking. The primary sources are located in West Coast states, principally California and Arizona, but a significant supply also derives from Mexican traffickers in northern Georgia, e.g. Gainesville and Dalton. Ethnic Mexican traffickers from these states have been identified as the clandestine manufacturers and sources of supply for methamphetamine in multi-pound quantities. In 2003, the Asheville Post of Duty targeted a large Gainesville-based Mexican methamphetamine trafficking group distributing over forty pounds monthly to abusers in western North Carolina. Clandestine labs producing one to two ounce amounts continue to proliferate in the central and western part of the state.

Club Drugs: The Club Drugs that are most popular in North Carolina are MDMA, GHB and LSD. The use of Dangerous Drugs has increased in popularity across the state and is especially popular with college and high-school aged people. With more than 50 four-year colleges and universities in North Carolina, there is a large potential market for club drugs. Ecstasy (MDMA) is also a problem, although not posing near the equivalent threat to most North Carolina communities as does cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana. Domestic intelligence gleaned from local and state agencies in North Carolina indicate that Ecstasy use is on the rise, arriving from trafficking networks in New York, Florida and California. Most prominently distributed in larger cities and along the coastal communities, such as beach cities attracting tourist populations, authorities are targeting ecstasy distributors and their out-of-state sources of supply. The Charlotte DO is targeting the rise of local Asian gangs trafficking MDMA and conducting money laundering for other trafficking groups. There has been an increase in the use of LSD in the Charlotte area. The majority of users of the drug are in the 15 to 25 year old category caught up in the "Rave" subculture. Law enforcement agencies have identified individuals with ties to the Pacific Northwest or West Coast regions of the country distributing bulk quantities of LSD.

Marijuana: Marijuana is one of the most prevalent drugs in North Carolina and its availability is increasing. One cause is the recent rise in the availability of Mexican marijuana due to an influx of Mexican trafficking organizations executing smuggling operations into the state directly from Mexico via containerized cargo transported on tractor-trailer trucks, particularly in the central portion (Piedmont) of the state. In addition, marijuana is being smuggled in ever-larger amounts via campers, pickup trucks, and larger vehicles. Over the past three years, Domestic Cannabis Eradication Suppression Program authorities have seized domestically grown marijuana in increasing quantities, Specifically, 2000 seizures were 40,464 plants, 2001 seizures were 89,900 plants, and 2002 seizures were 112,017 plants.

Other Drugs: Regarding illegal pharmaceuticals, while not a prominent class of drugs for abuse like cocaine or marijuana, the illegal distribution and abuse of prescription narcotics is widespread through North Carolina. Abusers tend to “doctor shop” for pain medication, or as in one case, learn of a clinic or pharmacy freely distributing narcotics on demand without a prescription. Such is the case of Medi-fare Pharmacy and the adjoining Grover Medical Clinic in Grover, NC. Before being shut down, Medi-fare was the number one dispenser of methadone in the country and the number four dispenser of OxyContin. Together, Medi-fare and the Grover Medical Clinic supplied abusers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Michigan and Virginia with tens of thousands of dosage units monthly.

DEA Mobile Enforcement Teams: This cooperative program with state and local law enforcement counterparts was conceived in 1995 in response to the overwhelming problem of drug-related violent crime in towns and cities across the nation. There have been 409 deployments completed resulting in 16,763 arrests of violent drug criminals as of February 2004. There have been five MET deployments in the State of North Carolina since the inception of the program: Monroe, Kinston, Durham, Lumberton, and Rocky Mount.

DEA Regional Enforcement Teams: This program was designed to augment existing DEA division resources by targeting drug organizations operating in the United States where there is a lack of sufficient local drug law enforcement. This Program was conceived in 1999 in response to the threat posed by drug trafficking organizations that have established networks of cells to conduct drug trafficking operations in smaller, non-traditional trafficking locations in the United States. Nationwide, there have been 22 deployments completed resulting in 608 arrests of drug trafficking criminals as of February 2004. There have been two RET deployments in the State of North Carolina since the inception of the program: Asheville and Charlotte.

Other Enforcement Operations: The OCDETF programs in the Eastern, Middle, and Western Federal Judicial Districts of North Carolina are very strong. The Western District ranks number one in prosecutions in the Southeast OCDETF Region.

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North Carolina Discretionary Funds

North Carolina Formula Funding						Fiscal Year 2004/05
North Carolina Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant:							$ 38,875,228
North Carolina Community Mental Health Services Block Grant:							$10,564,989
North Carolina Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH):							$ 943,000
North Carolina Protection and Advocacy Formula Grant:							$ 780,826
North Carolina Subtotal of Formula Funding:							$ 51,164,043
North Carolina Discretionary Funding						Fiscal Year 2004/05
North Carolina Mental Health							$ 2,314,232
North Carolina Substance Prevention:							$ 1,555,743
North Carolina Substance Abuse Treatment:							$ 1,818,945
North Carolina Subtotal of Discretionary Funding:							$ 5,688,920
North Carolina Total Mental Health Funds:							$ 14,603,047
North Carolina Total Substance Abuse Funds:							$ 42,249,916

Grantee: NC Dept of Hlth & Human Services
Program: Emergency Response
Congressional District: NC-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $52,678
Project Period: 06/01/2003 - 05/31/2005
The North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services is requesting funding under the State Emergency Response Capacity grant to develop a cadre of All-Hazard trainers/responders to deliver culturally competent and evidence-based mental health and substance abuse early intervention to those who are affected by any hazard or disaster. The development of culturally appropriate educational materials in English and Spanish that are pertinent to both terrorism and bioterrorism events will also be supported by this project.

Grantee: Child & Parent Support Services
Program: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $399,354
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2007
Child & Parent Support Services as a Community Practice Center will 1) improve access to care for traumatized children in Durham, 2) heighten community provider response to trauma in children, 3) implement three new best practices interventions considered ready for replication and evaluation, and 4) work collaboratively with Network sites. The grantee will work through a collaboration of a community non-profit agency and three universities designed to unify previously fragmented community services for traumatized children. The project utilizes a comprehensive approach to child trauma including forensic assessment, child and parent treatment, intensive in-home services, and school-based interventions. This continuum of services was developed and implemented to respond to the complex needs of families experiencing trauma in addition to chronic psychosocial adversity. Utilizing evidence-based treatment approaches and working with network partners to identify screening tools and training strategies, the grantee will increase its capacity to provide state-of-the-art best practices in trauma treatment to children in their community.

Grantee: NC MH Devel Disabilities Substance Abuse
Program: Children's Services
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $1,500,000
Project Period: 09/30/1999 - 08/31/2005
The State will develop the North Carolina System of Care Network (SOC) and pilot the program in 11 counties. The SOC will integrate mental health, family support and advocacy, health, social services, education, and juvenile justice systems at the State and community levels to meet the spectrum of needs of children with SED and their families. Critical to this program are both full and sustained family partnership and participatory learning/knowledge development to inform future SOC counties and to include in training curricula at the State and national levels.

Grantee: NC Dept. of Health and Human Svc
Program: North Carolina Outreach and Intervention Project
Congressional District: NC-08
FY 2004 Funding: : $150,000
Project Period: 08/20/2004 - 08/19/2005
This outreach and intervention project helps identify the need for increased mental health and substance abuse services, conduct outreach activities to ensure that those in need of services are aware of available resources and encourage them to access such care in the area that was economically devastated by the closing of a major textile plant in July of 2003. Approximately 4,300 people lost their jobs with the closing of this plant. Through this project, the North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services will design and implement targeted community education, prevention, intervention, and short term mental health, substance abuse and family treatment services and supports for the individuals who have been affected by textile industry closings. It will also, work in collaboration with community partners (crisis ministries, health care, human services agencies) to provide direct concerted outreach, targeted case finding, and case management activities that will identify people in need of services, and to facilitate their involvement in education, prevention, intervention, and/or treatment services.

Grantee: ECAC for NC Families United
Program: CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants
Congressional District: NC-09
FY 2004 Funding: : $70,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
NC Families United's mission is to link families of children with serious emotional, behavioral mental health challenges to state and community partners for improving the lives of these children and their families. Funding has allowed NC Families United to develop and grow into a statewide voice for children and families with serious emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges.

Grantee: Greensboro Housing Authority
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Halifax County Schools
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $75,000
Project Period: 10/01/2000 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Sandhills Center
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $45,066
Project Period: 10/01/2001 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Coalition for Drug Abuse Prevention
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District:
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 10/01/2003 - 09/30/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Eastern N Carolina Cncl on Subst Abuse
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: NC-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Governor's Inst Alcohol & SA, Inc
Program: SAMHSA Conference Grants
Congressional District: NC-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $25,000
Project Period: 08/15/2004 - 08/14/2005
The NC Partners to Reduce Underage Drinking with support from public and private agencies implemented the NC Underage Drinking Prevention Conference in September 2004 to provide training concerning environmental interventions, policy, media advocacy to youth, community advocates, public health, and college professionals. The conference provided training on advocacy and strategic interventions that advance state and local laws and policies related to underage drinking and was designed to highlight model programs and how to use current research to increase services and community awareness; educate participants on effective advocacy efforts; emphasize the importance of collaboration and coalition building; provide opportunities for networking; and educate participants on creating long-term success to reduce underage drinking on the state and local levels. The conference assisted NC to implement environmental strategies to reduce underage drinking at the community level and served as a stepping stone for participants' work. A committee formed by the Partners staff provided needs assessments, technical assistance and consultation with their implementation efforts. Post conference focus groups and follow up technical assistance in three regions of the state will be supported.

Grantee: Duke University
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 3 Services
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $349,364
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
Partners in Caring (PIC), a program of the Pastoral Services Department of the Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) and the DUMC Adult Infectious Diseases (ID) Clinic based in Durham, provides substance abuse and HIV education to community, faith-based organizations and pastoral care and support services to HIV+ patients at the DUMC Adult ID Clinics. The proposed project targets two a risk populations: 1) African-American youth (ages 12-20) and 2) HIV-infected African-American adults. The interventions will be implemented over a three-year period in two counties -Durham and Cumberland, and one region -Vance, Granville, Franklin, Warren and Person Counties (5-County Region). DUMC has three established outpatient ID Clinics (Durham, Cumberland and Vance) with interdisciplinary team and well-coordinated support services in each area.

Grantee: ValueOptions
Program: Youth Transition into the Workplace
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $149,987
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2006
To create EAP services that more effectively reach young workers, this project will work to adapt EAP services to better match their cultural, demographic and attitude preferences. To achieve this improved outreach, Value Options and its partners Health Management Associates (HMA) and the Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems initiative at George Washington University Medical Center (GWUMC) will use the sophisticated geodemographic segmentation systems and data mining techniques used by businesses to sell gourmet coffee or to locate branch bank offices. By using Value Options' database that includes socio-demographic and clinical service information from millions of client care episodes with geodemographic segmentation systems, we will create EAP services that reach young workers for the first time with media, messages, and processes of care that match their preferences and problems. In the first two years of the planned project, Value Options will work with six corporate customers served through its North Carolina center to create and pilot the prototype EAP outreach to young workers. In Phase II, the program will replicate Phase I and extend the program to Value Options' entire book of business, four other service sites and 12 staff model offices.

Grantee: Moses Cone Wesley Long Cmnty Hlth Fndn
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: NC-05
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Gastonia Housing Authority
Program: Drug Free Communities
Congressional District: NC-12
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2004 - 09/29/2005
The grantee will: (1) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse and; (2) Establish and strengthen community anti-drug coalitions.

Grantee: Sickle Cell Dis Assoc-Piedmont
Program: HIV/AIDS Cohort 4 Services
Congressional District: NC-12
FY 2004 Funding: : $350,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2008
The Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Piedmont (SCDAP) in Greensboro, NC has received a 5 year grant to provide integrated substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services to minority and underserved populations. This program will provide three new HIV and substance abuse prevention interventions to African-American high risk communities in Greensboro and High Point, NC.

Grantee: Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: NC-01
FY 2004 Funding: : $273,848
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To enhance the current case management system to include access to substance abuse professionals and connect clients who are dually diagnosed with treatment options and support during treatment and aftercare. African-American's comprise 71 percent of the 180 individuals that will be served during this grant period.

Grantee: Duke University
Program: Targeted Capacity - HIV/AIDS
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $499,992
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2007
To ensure that an additional 400 people have access to culturally sensitive substance abuse and HIV prevention and treatment services. The target population of this intervention are African-American women, including women with children, African-American men who inject drugs, including men who have sex with men (MSM) and at-risk, non-injecting MSM and African-American men and women who have been released from prisons and jails.

Grantee: Duke University
Program: Effective Adolescent Treatment
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $249,967
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The Drug Abuse Treatment for Adolescents (DATA) project is designed to make effective treatment for adolescent substance abuse available in community treatment settings. DATA is designed to be part of SAMHSA's Effective Adolescent Treatment initiative. In DATA, 110 cannabis or alcohol abusing adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17, and 44 similar youths ages 18 to 21, will receive a brief outpatient intervention that has been demonstrated to be an efficacious intervention for cannabis abusers.

Grantee: North Carolina State Dept of Human Res
Program: State Data Infrastructure
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $100,000
Project Period: 09/30/2002 - 09/29/2005
The North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services has begun developing a comprehensive decision support system. This project will focus on the inclusion of key substance abuse related data sets, performance indicators, report cards, outcome measures, and fidelity measures for clinical and system guidelines. Development of data for these components will be achieved through participation in a departmental initiative towards enterprise data solutions via data warehousing. With specific consideration being given to meeting treatment performance reporting requirements for the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant Performance Partnerships (PPG), the Division will collect the necessary data from its providers and migrate select data from its client and services transaction into a data repository, the creation of which will provide the State. SAMHSA, and other stakeholders with information needed for accountability, management, planning and evaluation.

Grantee: Governor's Inst on Alc & Substance Abuse
Program: Strengthening Access and Retention (SAR)
Congressional District: NC-04
FY 2004 Funding: : $200,000
Project Period: 09/30/2003 - 09/29/2006
The Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention (STAR) Project brings together partners from the Pitt County Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Center and the Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center and their referring agencies to enhance management procedures and clinical skills to improve access and treatment. The STAR Project will target clients, aged 17-25, who are residents of Pitt County, a largely rural area in eastern North Carolina. Objectives of the STAR project include the following: to improve treatment access and retention in substance abuse services at the Pitt Center through the development of process improvement teams and to improve treatment retention through the use of motivational enhancement therapy (MET).

Grantee: EBCI Recovery Services Center
Program: Recovery Community Service
Congressional District: NC-11
FY 2004 Funding: : $170,138
Project Period: 09/30/2001 - 09/29/2006
The purpose of this grant is to foster participation of people in recovery and their family members in the public dialogue about addiction, treatment and recovery. The term "recovery community" is a broad and encompassing term that includes persons having a history of alcohol and drug problems who are in recovery or recovered, those currently in treatment, those seeking treatment, as well as their family members, and other supporters and allies. Recovery community organizations help people in recovery, their families and supporters work together to identify, develop, and support needed treatment and recovery policies, systems, and services.