{"id":3027,"date":"2009-07-24T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2016-09-22T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T21:09:09","slug":"mothers-against-methamphetamine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/mothers-against-methamphetamine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Against Methamphetamine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">An Alabama doctor who lost a brother to methamphetamine addiction has formed a support group called &#8220;After he died, I started looking into it as a physician, as a scientist&#8221;, said Dr. Mary Holley, an obstetrician in Albertville. &#8220;What is this drug that destroyed his life in just two years?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holley formed the group last year and there now are chapters in Tennessee, Georgia, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The group works with churches to form addiction-support groups. In addition, the MAMa website offers information that explains the dangers of meth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People don&#8217;t realize what this drug is doing,&#8221; Holley said. &#8220;One look at the brain scan in my pamphlets will change that attitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holley, a Christian, said a religious approach to treating drug addiction is more effective than law enforcement. &#8220;Law enforcement is helpless. They can&#8217;t possibly bust every lab. They can&#8217;t keep them in jail long enough for them to heal,&#8221; Holley said. &#8220;Education is helpless. They lack the resources and the moral authority to change the situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holley said that when speaking with young people, she found that, &#8220;20 percent of meth users are basically healthy kids who made a bad decision. About 75 percent are broken, hurting people, abused and battered as kids. <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source: Associated Press reported Aug. 28. 2004<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alabama doctor who lost a brother to methamphetamine addiction has formed a support group called &#8220;After he died, I started looking into it as a physician, as a scientist&#8221;, said Dr. Mary Holley, an obstetrician in Albertville. &#8220;What is this drug that destroyed his life in just two years?&#8221; Holley formed the group last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-methamphetamine-ghb-hallucinogens-oxycodone","category-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}