21st Century 12 Step

I N T R O D U C T I O N		21st Century 12-Steps
DUE PROCESS PARADIGM 12 Steps for the 21st Century SAFETY not Abstinence is the Real Issue That Future Drug Policy Must Confront.
			Drug Policy Development The world view of drug policy is that it fails to accomplish to protect people from psychoactive drugs. s that leads to addiction and dependence. To ignore them is to unleash them to empower the Earth. None of this is true, nor does it make any sense that a fragment of society can be that powerful. The world view needs to reflect the fact that drug abuse is nothing more than an educational deficiency. Countering that deficiency with the right balance of education is the best method to stop drug abuse and control drug use. Because so few are educated well enough to understand that learning to use drugs is a process that requires knowledge, discipline, and can benefit from technology, the educational deficiency definition of drug abuse is bound to face much criticism. For now, it will be useful to remember that the Drug Use Education Process Paradigm pertains to the medical use of drugs only.
The Drug Use Education Process Paradigm It is easy to think of the paradigm in terms of a small tribe of 50 people. Within that tribe, 5 people will be considered leaders; 5 will be considered the elite or privileged; two will be educator-doctors who take care of the sick; two others will be the developers of medicine; one will be the healthcare administrator. The remaining 35 individuals will be responsible for operation of the community in some way. Generally, one of the two doctors will make the rounds assuring that everyone who is sick takes their medication and both doctors monitor all patients. Then one day, there is an outbreak of food poisoning and one of the doctors becomes very sick and for the balance of the next few weeks, all medical functions are performed by one doctor. Soon, that doctor begins to allow those who are sick free reign over the medication. The doctor goes away, and when the doctor returns she finds that several other members of the tribe have started using the medicines for what appears to be non-medical purposes. When she questions these other members of the tribe, the doctor decides that their use is non-medical. Because the reason is believed to be non-medical, the doctor tells them that they can no longer have access to the medications. One day, the doctor decides to teach one of these members of the tribe about medicine and discovers that the tribe member has a legitimate medical disorder that was being masked by the psychoactive medications. So the doctor decides to train other members of the tribe and discover that all those members who the doctor thought to be using the drugs for non-medical purposes, has a medical disorder that they were attempting to treat. So the doctor decides to teach all members of the tribe about medicine and pharmacology and discovers other disorders among the members of the tribe. So rather than the doctor withholding information and education just to be sure that everyone who was using medication really needed it, she discovered many more disorders and reasons to dispense medication. What the doctor learned is that someone who does not have a disorder will only use the medications sporadically, while those to used the medications routinely were treating a legitimate medical disorder. Educating the entire tribe did not lead to drug abuse, it helped resolve the problems that members were having. The bottom line is that there is nothing good about ignorance. No matter how one might hope to justify it, ignorance only leads to failure. Spreading the knowledge to every member of the tribe did not lead to drug abuse, but rather led the tribe away from drug abuse. While the doctor might have wanted to restrict the number of drug users, she found that it was far more important to see to it that all those who needed medication got what they needed. In the end, the tribe was more successful and productive. The real-world paradigm works much the same way. The more educated the masses, the greater the benefit for the community and the greater the value that practitioners have. Withholding information or education has never been an asset to anyone. There is nothing that cripples the economy more than a person with a legitimate medical disorder left untreated and performing at only half the pace, while the other half is spent agonizing with an untreated disorder. This only leads to unrest and poor performance. A Pro-Positive Medical Drug Policy is permissive. It does not seek to punish or to blame, but rather to ensure that everyone in society is functioning optimally. There is no room for pressure or criminalization because 1,000 or 1 trillion, each person counts and is counted. The reality is that some of the weakest links in society can outperform many others and there needs to be time and attention dedicated to bringing people up to par. THE DUE PROCESS PARADIGM There are 3 aspects to the paradigm: The Political Core The Social Left or Above The Technological Right or Lower The Political (or Policy) Core consists of The Policy Standards The Policy Core is the Toolbox, consisting of all relevant concepts and terminology. It is where all decisions are made and changes takes place. Guiding this core is a group of 5 or more leaders. The size of this "group" will vary but shall almost always be limited to the scope of the assignment. It has been determined that there shall be no more than 50 leaders in this unit that will be called herein, a Commission, to be consistent with other U.S. Federal Government operations.
Social The aspect concerned with human interaction and communication of ideas and knowledge among members of society. It shares the Policy Core (Policy & Standards) with Technological and Political aspects. Social policies shall appear in an independent document and combined document, identifiable by the "SOC" or "S" prefix. Social Policy consists of the: 3. Medical 5. Education 7. Adult Licensing 9. Communications 11. Legal Support and any additional components that may be required. All components shall be odd-numbered.		Technological The aspect in which a chemical or electronic process drives the particular phase or step as opposed to a political or social motivation. The process may be manual, such as it is in CNS drug development, or it may be automated, as it is in the proposed drug bank architecture designed to dispense pharmaceutical medications like an ATM. Technological policies shall appear in an independent document and combined document, identifiable by the "TEC" or "T" prefix. Technological Policy consists of the: 4. Pharmacology 6. Recovery 8. Drug Registration 10. Systems & Networks 12. Future
	Social Policy The factor most significant to the success of the DUE Process Paradigm is educating the patient. Without this step, the entire process fails. Licensing and registration become pointless services and all the technology and policy are trivial elaborations on what exists today.	Technological Policy The factor most significant to the success of the DUE Process Paradigm is educating the patient. Without this step, the entire process fails. Licensing and registration become pointless services and all the technology and policy are trivial elaborations on what exists today.
	Standards The factor most significant to the success of the DUE Process Paradigm is educating the patient. Without this step, the entire process fails. Licensing and registration become pointless services and all the technology and policy are trivial elaborations on what exists today.
Medical Researching the Medical Benefits of Illicit and Prescription Neuropsychopharmacotherapies including narcotic drugs and non-narcotic psychoactive drugs is the essential step within the medical component that remains uncompleted. For the "recreational" drug user or abuser, there is no medical benefit. Anyone who uses a drug for entertainment purposes will be less concerned about discontinuing drug use. The medical drug users however experiences a medical benefit. There are 4 factors that result in the ambivalence of researchers and practitioners about this medical benefit being anything other than addiction or dependency. No one from the medical community has ever done a serious study of experimenters who adapt to drug use almost immediately. Because there is no Drug Use Education program in the K12 curricula, young drug users cannot convey what they feel and therefore, assumptions are made. By the time that an illicit medical drug user enters medical care, they are typically experiencing addiction or dependency, which become another medical reason for using the drug. Finally, all illicit drug users and prescription drug abusers are categorized as "recreational" drug abusers by the legal community that takes precedence over any scientific reason.		Pharmacology The factor most significant to the success of the DUE Process Paradigm is educating the patient. Without this step, the entire process fails. Licensing and registration become pointless services and all the technology and policy are trivial elaborations on what exists today.
Education (1 of 4 PUBLIC SERVICES; 1 OF 2 PREVENTION SERVICES) The factor most significant to the success of the DUE Process Paradigm is educating the public. This is the essential step in the process. Education is the first of 4 PUBLIC SERVICES. The second is Licensing; the third is Access, and the fourth is recovery. The order is counterclockwise here. The first two are PREVENTION SERVICES. A Prevention Service has a goal to prevent drug abuse, addiction, dependency, and all other adversities associated with drug Members of the public that cannot be educated will continue to burden practitioners and society. However, those who can understand even the basics of dose, frequency, and duration along with some medical and pharmacological intelligence will have the ability to unlock doors on the ever-expanding world of pharmacology; not just psychoactive drugs, but		Recovery (4 of 4 PUBLIC SERVICES; 2 OF 2 PROTECTION SERVICES) The factor most significant to the success of the DUE Process Paradigm is educating the patient. Without this step, the entire process fails. Licensing and registration become pointless services and all the technology and policy are trivial elaborations on what exists today.
Licensing (2 of 4 PUBLIC SERVICES; 2 OF 2 PREVENTION SERVICES) The purpose of Licensing is		Access (3 of 4 PUBLIC SERVICES; 1 OF 2 PROTECTION SERVICES) Licensing adult drug users
Communications The factor most significant to the success of the DUE Process Paradigm is educating the patient. Without this step, the entire process fails. Licensing and registration become pointless services and all the technology and policy are trivial elaborations on what exists today.		Systems The factor most significant to the success of the DUE Process Paradigm is educating the patient. Without this step, the entire process fails. Licensing and registration become pointless services and all the technology and policy are trivial elaborations on what exists today.
Legal Support The factor most significant to the success of the DUE Process Paradigm is educating the patient. Without this step, the entire process fails. Licensing and registration become pointless services and all the technology and policy are trivial elaborations on what exists today.		Technical Support The factor most significant to the success of the DUE Process Paradigm is educating the patient. Without this step, the entire process fails. Licensing and registration become pointless services and all the technology and policy are trivial elaborations on what exists today.